Can it be Monday again already? Summer is flying by! I’m not in a hurry for September and autumn to come so this week’s list will be heavy on the summer activities! Hopefully there will be enough for those of you who are just finishing up with winter too. Enough yapping! Here’s a few ways…
Making Hospital Stays a Little Easier (Part Two)
Thanks to Candy for writing in with more ideas about ways to pass the time when little ones are in the hospital or home sick. She shared: My 4yo nephew just spent some time in a double hip spica cast and one thing that helped him was putting his favorite doll in similar bandages (iv…
My Own Little Medical Update
I figured I should post an update on my post from the other night. It turns out that I didn’t have a bad reaction to the amoxycillin because of Mono. I have developed a severe penicillin allergy and will need to avoid it and anything related to it for the rest of my years. I had…
Making Hospital Stays a Little Easier
This week I got a letter from Magical Mama Helen in Australia, looking for ideas on how to make hospital stays a little easier. Her four year-old sweetie, Asha Rose, has Cystic Fibrosis. She just completed her first hospital stay and has more in her future (along with time at home with nursing care and…
A Minor Medical Emergency
Sorry folks, no fun blog post tonight! I will give you this word of warning though. If your kids all have diagnosed ear infections and sinus infections and you’ve been feeling really run down and miserable yourself and you have amoxycillin leftover from when you had that sinus infection last month…. do not even think…
Secret Color Playdough
"…Finally, I gave each kid a beige blob. They looked up at me like they’d been seriously ripped off. "But Miss Rose, where’s the color?" "Well, you have to play with it to make it change colors." Then they got all excited." I love this idea from A Cleverer Version of Myself!…
Note to Self
Goals for the week…. Make fruit juice sorbets Play cards Do watercolor painting Go camping Take more walks Make a list of Alex’s words Be more patient Play Hyper-Dash in the back yard Invent a craft Read more books to the boys Start a new family read-aloud novel Finally watch that movie together Laugh more…
Tie Dye with Tissue Paper!
Now this is my kind of craft! It’s cheap, it’s kid friendly, it’s easy and the results are gorgeous! I can’t wait to try this fabulous idea from Dollar Store Crafts. In light of the fact that she said the original squirting (with a squirt gun, even more fun for kiddos!) didn’t have an…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
1. Have a movie matinee day at home. Close all the blinds in the middle of the day, turn off the lights, pop some popcorn, put out some tasty munchies, pull up some chairs or pillows and watch a new-to-you movie together. Better yet, borrow this idea and make a drive-in at home with decorated…
50 Summer Crafts for Kids
Want to get lost in some links for a while? The Long Thread has links to 50 crafts, recipes and projects to keep kids busy. Truthfully, none of these are really new to most mamas and the majority seem to be done by mamas themselves or are really not very realistic for kids (I loved…