Kid’s Room Inspiration: Five Great Ideas
We’ve decided to stay in our home for another year and so we’ll be finishing up the kid’s rooms. Here’s what’s inspiring me. What do you think?
Back To School: Lunchbox Inspiration
Today was the first day of school and I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for my kid. By the end of the year I will have made about 200-some odd peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. My hope had always been that making interesting lunches for my picky eater would encourage her to eat a wider variety of things. What appears to happen is a lot of food ends up in the garbage. Still, our options have slowly grown over the years.
What They Did On Summer Vacation
Just now I asked my kids what we did on summer vacation and they replied, earnestly, “Nothing.” Which is weird because I remember a few trips I spent hours packing for and doing laundry after. I also remember several hundred dollars spent on activities and pool admission. Ah, childhood. Getting no good answers from my [...]
Back To School: Five Excellent Fundraisers For Your School
A couple of my friends are big jerks and have kids that have already gone back to school. We have a few more weeks to plan everything out. What outfit we’ll wear on the first day, what neighborhood kids will walk together, mimosas or Bloody Marys? Late last year a reader emailed to ask for [...]
Burning Daylight: Toothpick Sculptures
This week I was (as always) pressed for time since we went on our camping trip over the weekend. I usually work on the Burning Daylight series over the weekend but this weekend we were in “The Wild” as I called it every time I didn’t want to worry about something. For example, “Oh, sure…eat [...]
Burning Daylight: Button Necklaces
Another week of daylight to burn, another few necklaces. I know I’m leaving my little boy out these last few weeks but he’s been the one with a million things to do each day and my daughter is the one who’s sitting around a little bored. We ended up making these button pendant necklaces I [...]
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