Last week, a blog post went viral about why parents should stop trying to give their kids a magical childhood. One of my friends shared it on her Facebook wall and yesterday a speaker at a sustainability conference even recommended it, saying that parents today spend too much time “on those things like Pinterest” and…
Author: Alicia
Plastic Bag Flowers, Revisited
A few days ago, I got a comment on a new post asking how I made some plastic bag flowers back in 2010. I didn’t even remember making plastic bag flowers, but a quick blog search showed this post where I linked to a fabulous blog with instructions. It turns out that the original blog…
Happy Grief Bacon Day!
We’re having a different sort of holiday today. We’re celebrating our first annual Kummerspeck (or “Grief Bacon“) Day. The idea came to me a few days ago. We’ve all been really fighting the blues in our family. Winter has been long, cold, snowy and oppressive this year. The kids have been cooped up and cranky. I’ve…
10 Ways We’ve Made the Day Magical Lately
Happy Monday! I’m just popping in for a quick post this time. I’m fighting the blues and swamped with things I should be doing, and I thought it might be good to focus on the magical moments around here lately. These are only ones that I happen to capture on my iPod, which really made…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Happy Monday! Happy St. Patrick’s Day, too, for that matter. Happy everything! Here’s a few ways to make a little magic today or sometime this week with your kiddos………. 1. Do some rainy day art with food coloring and cardstock. If you can’t get some rain, let the kids fake it with a squirt bottle…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Happy Monday! I hope all is wonderful in your little corner of the world. We’ve been busy despite the cold winter here. I’ve found that with five kids now, there really isn’t such a thing as down time! I do like winter more and more these days for its forced slowing-down of life, though. This…
I am (uplifting them)
Here’s a wonderful project that I am so happy to see! I am (uplifting them) is a new social media project that proposes to use social media to uplift our kids instead of to shame them. Page creator Stephanie says: I am saddened by the amount of kid-shaming photos and stories I see all over…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Happy Monday! I hope you’re staying warm in your little corner of the world. They’ve closed the schools because of the cold here in Minnesota. It is staggeringly cold! With wind chills, they say it could get as low as -79. That’s crazy business! It’s a good day to stay inside and make some happy…
Weather Trees!
I’m in love with weather trees. I’ve admired them over the years and always wanted to start one with the kids. Weathertree.com offers this one for sale from the UK each year… And they also offer one that focuses on goals (weight loss, exercise completed, eggs laid by chickens and small business profits are some…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Happy Monday! I hope you’re staying warm and happy in your corner of the world. We’ve had some bitterly cold temperatures here in Minnesota lately (-19 without wind chill!) but it’s starting to warm up a little and I’m optimistic we’ll at least get above zero for a few days so we can properly take…