Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a totally random little way to have some fun with your kids and create something really calming and beautiful (sometimes you need that during this time of year!). At Silk, you just click your mouse and drag, then watch the artwork created. It all looks like silk blowing in the breeze. You…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Happy Monday! I hope everything is going wonderfully in your neck of the woods. Things are pretty good here. Fiona turned 6 weeks old today and she’s growing like crazy. We all have fun getting her to smile and taking turns cuddling her. The older kids have all been busy with new friends, old friends,…
Build Your Wild Self!
The New York Zoos and Aquarium and the Wildlife Conservation Society have created a fabulously fun site! Build Your Wild Self lets kids build themselves with all sorts of animal parts, while learning about animals along the way. Customize your creation with your own hair, eyes and features, and then add elephant ears, monarch wings…
Painted Soap Clouds
Remember when I recommended microwaving a half a bar of Ivory soap as a way to make the day magical a couple of months ago? We took it a step farther and had the most fun! We microwaved the soap for about 30 seconds (set your microwave for about a minute and just stop it…
Be Kind
Five year-old Sophia has the ticket. 🙂
Easy Velcro Blocks
Here’s a fun and inexpensive way to make some neat building blocks for little ones. Our fabulous friend Jan, a local Head Start teacher, came up with this idea. She purchased a couple of $1 bags of foam blocks from Target and then purchased some adhesive velcro. She cut the velcro into tiny squares and…
11 Ways to Make the 11th Magical
This Friday is 11/11/11 so I thought it would be fun to dream up 11 ways to make the day magical this week! I got the idea from Magical Mama Sue, who is planning a fabulous 11/11/11 party for the day with lots of wonderful, wacky ideas. Here’s her swiped plan: Party ideas include the…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Hello magical people! I’m posting this late for the past couple of weeks or early for Monday, since it looks like we’ll be out of town. Baby Fiona and I are doing great. She’s up to 9 pounds (she was 8 1/2 at birth) and she’s an extremely happy, sweet baby. We all adore her,…
Meet Fiona Rose!
Fiona Rose was born Monday, October 10, 2011 at 7:41 a.m. She was 8 pounds, 8 ounces and 20 1/4 inches long. She has dark blue eyes, fuzzy blonde hair and the most lovable personality. Though of course I’m biased. 🙂 Her big sister Victoria (13) took photos and created her baby announcement (isn’t she…
Flight
I am alone tonight. I was alone last night, too. This is the first time I’ve been absolutely alone (without at least one of the kids) for this long in over thirteen years of parenthood! Daryl and the kids are volunteering at a wonderful event called History Fest out of town. We volunteer there as…