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Easter Crafts for the Young at Heart
It is that time of year again where you can dust off the Easter decor and get ready to craft it up. Easter is that time of year where I seem to get energy to pull out crafts galore for Read more…
It is that time of year again where you can dust off the Easter decor and get ready to craft it up. Easter is that time of year where I seem to get energy to pull out crafts galore for Read more…
“Wait until your youngest is four years old,” they say. And, of course, I don’t listen. Here I am, getting a family dog, and potty training my toddler at the same time…CRAZY right!?! ABSOLUTELY! But…hear me out on this one. Read more…
As a former teacher, I get this question a lot. When is your child ready to learn? The easiest answer to this question is…BIRTH! Your child begins learning from day one. They quickly understand to cry to get what they Read more…
So many times I tell my kids to stop growing for selfish reasons. For some reason, watching my kids grow out of one stage and into another causes a bit of sadness deep in my heart. I quickly get over it and am excited for their new stage they enter but a piece of me dies with that growth. It happens with each of my kids. I know I am not the only parent who feels this way either.
Working with kids…You may be thinking, “What does she have to add to this topic? I mean, she is a stay-at-home momma, right?”
Well yes, I am a stay at home momma and love every minute of it but on the contrary, I am a working momma. I like to say that I am a “stay-at-home mom that works”…meaning that I consider myself a stay-at-home mom during the daytime hours while the kiddos are awake and while they sleep, I work.
Barley is (almost) 4 months old and let me tell ya…having a 3 year old toddler and 4 month old puppy is NOT for the faint of heart. I find myself wondering who got into the toilet paper, who broke the crayon to pieces on the living room floor, who took the laundry out of the laundry basket, etc. IT IS A LOT OF WORK. Why did we decide together a puppy you might ask?!?
I can feel the warmth on my skin, the sun beaming down and warming the earth’s soil as I walk barefoot on the beach’s sand. It’s about 89 degrees outside and the smell of saltwater is encapsulating the air. It feels good to be outside, run in the sand, and feel the hot sun on my skin.
I jerk awake and realize it is actually the dead of winter in Toledo, Ohio where the weather is COLD, the skies are gray and the sun is all but beaming onto my face. It hits me…
Bake some treats for your neighbors
This has to be my favorite–and one we will definitely be doing again this year. Last year, Little Girl and I baked banana bread for our neighbors, but this year I think we may make an assortment of treats, like pumpkin spice donut holes, healthy chocolate peanut butter fudge, coconut-cranberry peanut butter truffles and my triple chocolate peanut butter truffles from the Healthy Holidays eBook. We like to attach a Bible verse proclaiming Christ’s birth.
Last year, we delivered the bread on a rare white Christmas morning, and it was a blast getting to know our neighbors (most of whom invited us inside!).
I don’t know about you, but my kids LOVE Christmas carols or any holiday song out there. In fact, starting the week of Thanksgiving, Christmas carols are playing on our Google Home or Pandora playlist pretty consistently. I LOVE, LoVe, LOOOOOOVE the holiday season and all the fun traditions that come with it.
I don’t want to think that we will be in a lockdown yet again, but with the COVID cases rising, the election going a bit crazy and everyone a bit on edge about this virus, I feel like it may just happen. With that being said, if you have littles this is something you may dread. The last lockdown left us with little imagination to make the lockdown “fun” and interesting anymore. We executed some pretty amazing plans to keep the littles busy and did that for many months only to now have no ideas left. I thought I’d help a momma, daddy, grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, caretaker out and get some new, fresh ideas out there in case we are quarantined once again.