Category: Ways to make today magical

Happy Monday!  Here’s a few ways to make some memories with your kiddos this week… 1.  Make a squirt gun carnival game in the back yard.  Martha Stewart recommends setting up ping pong balls on golf tees as targets. 2.  Have the kids write up a little message about your family and fold it up…

Happy Someday! Note:  I started this post on Monday, but thanks to an autumn cold, a doctor’s appointment, an irritable uterus, a washing machine with a temper tantrum and various other roadblocks it got more than a bit delayed!   I’m now working on it on Tuesday night and it may well be Wednesday before I…

Happy Monday! Here’s a few ways to make some memories with your kiddos this week…. 1.  Head to a park or other picturesque area with a digital camera and challenge the kids to take turns taking artistic pictures of each other.  Whoever has the camera gets to play photographer and the others get to model,…

Happy Wednesday! We had a wonderful time in Iowa and Southeast Minnesota.  The kids got to explore caves (Victoria is hooked, the others liked some of them but found some of them scary, and I found out that Niagara Cave is a really bad idea at 8 months pregnant!), we judged salsa and tasted heirloom…

Happy Wednesday!  We need magical ideas on more days besides Mondays, right?  😉  That’s my excuse for being a bit of a slug and being so late this week! Here’s a few ways to make some magic with your kiddos this week… 1. Let the kids pick out several yards of clearance fabric in glamorous, funky…

It’s still officially summer time and still rerun season, right?  In honor of that (and a current state of pregnant sickness and needing to take it easy for a bit), I’m running a rerun of ways to make the day magical.  🙂 Some of you may know that I’ve been doing these lists for years…

Happy Monday! We’re back from the wilds of Nebraska and settling back into normal life.  It was a fun time but it’s good to be home. I wrote out a list of ten ways to make the day magical while at a science museum in Nebraska last week, but I seem to have accidentally left…

Happy Monday! We survived the heat of the last couple of weeks and I have hopes that it will get back down to a normal summer.  Baby has been making herself known big-time with lots of kicks, rolls, bounces and super-strength Braxton-Hicks contractions.  This week also marks a special sort of anniversary for me.  This…

Happy Independence Day!  Or Happy Monday to those of you who aren’t in the states.  🙂 Here’s a few ways to make some fun memories this week… 1.  Use some tarps and a fan to make a walk-in bubble.  Toad Haven shows you how. 2.  Make red, white and blue play dough.  For extra fun,…