I posted about our puffy paint craft yesterday and several folks asked here and on Facebook if it could be done in a regular oven. I looked online and couldn’t find anybody who knew if it could be done without a microwave, so we did a little experiment ourselves this morning. The answer — yes!…
Easy Puffy Paint!
I’ve seen recipes for homemade puffy paint many times over the years, but I never took the time to make it with the kids until today. What a shame I waited this long! The kids had a blast and developed lots of ways to use it. Even Harry Potter crests and pendants! The original…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
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…
Boxing Day
I won a fabulous outdoor chair recently and it was delivered in a giant cardboard box. I love my chair, but I was also really tickled by how much my children loved the box! Thirteen year-old Victoria claimed it right away, sneaking out to it with a book, a snack and some water before the…
Childhood Doesn’t Wait
Here’s a sweet poem with some important reminders for all of us… Childhood Doesn’t Wait (Author Unknown) I was sitting on a bench while in a nearby mall, When I noticed a young mother with two children who were small. The youngest one was whining, “Pick me up,” I heard him beg but the mother’s…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
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…
10 Fun Links
It turns out that by the fifth child, I’m a terrible blogger! 😉 Apologies for my lax blogging lately. Hopefully you and your kiddos have been busy making some last minute summer magic of your own. We’ve been busy and I’m keeping up as best as I can with my giant belly. I’m getting rather…
Dear Baby…
Dear Baby, You should be here in a little over two months now. This seems like the longest pregnancy in history, but there’s still so much to be done to prepare for you. We thought we were all done with babies, after all, and our life is so crazy and chaotic even when there aren’t…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
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…
What’s Your Pirate Name?
The kids and I got a fun pirate book recently and inside was a chart to help you find your pirate name. Unfortunately, their chart left us a bit flat (9 out of 10 names were for boy pirates, for instance!) so we came up with our own pirate name generator. To find your pirate…