We have a beautiful advent calendar that was handmade for us by my sweet and talented step mom or Meme as my kids call her. It's one of my favorite Christmas decorations but sometimes the stress to fill it with Pinterest worthy goodies / activities / treats / toys can be overwhelming. But why make … Continue reading Easy Last Minute Advent Idea: Holiday Jokes and Puns
Category: arts & crafts
Adventish: A Holiday Idea Box
Sometimes the holidays stress me out. Some years I don't care about the mayhem and I pinterest my heart out coming up with fun activities and covering the house in glitter and ribbons and twinkle lights then other years I'm like, "What if we didn't decorate for Christmas at all and we'll just wait and see … Continue reading Adventish: A Holiday Idea Box
ww: family portraits
MM drew this picture of his father based on a photo from our wedding day.
A self portrait of BB in the winter.
Kindergarten Looks Like: Paper Craft Extreme
Can we talk about BB's new craft obsession? Every day she painstakingly cuts out little shapes from bits of paper and then assembles them into pictures, coloring in all the little pieces. This is a self portrait of hers that she gave me recently and it's just one in an ever growing collection of patchwork … Continue reading Kindergarten Looks Like: Paper Craft Extreme
DIY: Making homemade labels for our spice jars.
We've been storing our spices in a couple of cardboard boxes pretty much since the day we moved into our first apartment all those years ago. It started with one box and as our cooking skills grew we added another box - one for baking and one for cooking basically. But the boxes were impossible … Continue reading DIY: Making homemade labels for our spice jars.
Father’s Day Weekend: Photo wrap up.
This weekend we celebrated Fathers Day with our favorite handsome engineer. We started the weekend with an assortment of handmade cards and pictures from the kids like this portrait of Dan drawn by MM and a few goodies from ThinkGeek.com. Saturday we all went to Devils Lake State Park with some friends. We had a … Continue reading Father’s Day Weekend: Photo wrap up.
5 minute fixes: For toy clutter, kids artwork & more!
Confession: Organizing my kids toys is a soul sucking task that I ignore as long as possible. Do I like the disaster that they live in most days? Nope, it drives me slowly insane. But sometimes it seems like any solution I attempt to give them to better organize their things is only going to … Continue reading 5 minute fixes: For toy clutter, kids artwork & more!
Puppy Alter Egos: My kids imagine our canine selves.
One of this week's writing prompts at Mama Kat's writer's workshop was: 5.) If your family were dogs, what breed would each of them be? I was immediately intrigued by this idea and started thinking about what breeds my kids and husband would be and how I would describe them. And then an even better … Continue reading Puppy Alter Egos: My kids imagine our canine selves.
