I just stumbled onto these pictures that Victoria took last summer when she was staying with Magical Mama Tiffany and her family. How’s this for cheap, easy and delightful fun? 🙂 She and her friend Judith, who was visiting from Texas, made all of these little folks… Now if it would only stop raining long…
Author: Alicia
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Happy Monday! Ready for some ways to make some magic this week? Here ya go…… 1. Teach the kids to do the hand jive or the macarena and then do it together to all kinds of music (You-Tube can help if you’re rusty!). 2. Let the kids set up the camera on self timer and…
To My Child, On Mother’s Day
I wrote this poem years ago and posted it on the Magical Childhood site, and thought it was fitting to post again today… To My Child, On Mother’s Day I loved you when you were a dream, a plan of who I wanted to be as your mother. I loved you when you were a…
All for One and One for All
Looking for ways to help your kids not just get along but support each other? I thought the ideas in this article were really good!
Play Trees!
I have heard of training apple trees against walls to make beautiful patterns but I had never heard of this sort of tree manipulation until now. Check out this plan for a living playground made from living trees! Apparently it’s fairly common to tie young trees into knots and such to make interesting shapes years…
Real Life
In the interest of balancing out all the perfect sounding mamas and houses out there, here’s another installment of small confessions just for you. 🙂 Directly below this sign in the upstairs hallway is a doorknob-sized hole in the wall where a child opened the bathroom door a bit too enthusiastically. I brought four pieces…
Want to Help? Get a Haircut!
I’m in love with this simple way to help with the oil spill clean up. It turns out that hair, fur, wool and nylons are some of the best materials for filtering oil out of water, and a non-profit company has been using donated boxes of the stuff to help clean up oil spills for…
Lions and Tigers and Bears Can’t Compare
You can take a small boy to the zoo and show him tigers and rhinos and black bears and emus… But if he finds out that a peacock will come this close when you’ve accidentally dropped two Cheerios… Nothing else can possibly compare! Zoos are fabulous, but I love that kids can often be just…
Play Stairs!
Have you seen this video/ad? I would love to live near some stairs like these! How fun! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw&feature=player_embedded]
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Happy Monday! We made it through two birthdays here and are presently on our third. Jack turned 7 on Friday, Victoria turned 12 on Saturday, and Alex turns 3 today. Boy is that bittersweet! Let’s get on with it then! Here’s ten new ways to make some magical memories with your kiddos this week…….. 1….