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Sunday was Mother’s Day, and I’ve got to give a shout out to all the moms out there. Motherhood is the toughest, most demanding job I’ve ever had; yet at the same time, it’s the most rewarding. Over the last 4 years I’ve had moments where I’ve been yacked on, pooped on, peed on, cried [...]
I’ve written about a dozen posts in my brain these last few weeks but my fingers didn’t make it to the keyboard. But you wouldn’t know that since you can’t exactly read the unwritten stuff in my brain. (This is where you thank your lucky stars that you can’t.) I’ve been MIA because I was on [...]
It’s time to color Easter eggs for the holiday, and if you’ve got little ones, you’re going to *love* this tip. Emily’s first time coloring eggs resulted in spilled dye and dyed little fingers (and more) – because no matter how hard I tried to prevent it, she was determined to stick her hands into [...]
Tomorrow’s the first day of Spring. Spring! SPRING!!! I’d choreograph a little dance number to show how excited I am about that, except… Today there was snow. Snow! SNOW!!! Seriously? For real. I was so not appreciating the snow. But, I guess if you gotta have snow the day before Spring, this snow was almost perfect. [...]
Emily loves to be a helper. She shows interest in cooking, laundry, cleaning, etc. All the things she’s probably going to despise as soon as she’s no longer a preschooler. Let’s face it – I’m no fan of those things either! But I know that now is the time to form good habits while she still likes [...]
Valentine’s Day was last week. A full week ago to be exact. Yep. Sure was. And this post is about Valentine’s Day. Yep. Sure is. I just didn’t have time to post it last week before the holiday – especially because Emily and I finished her valentines on Valentine’s Day. Her party at preschool wasn’t [...]
I was in the mother of all bad moods yesterday. I know. Bad moods happen to all of us. But not like this. This bad mood was a 12 on a 10 point scale. A really BAD mood. The Ultimate of Bad Moods. A don’t-look-at-me, don’t-talk-to-me, don’t-occupy-the-same-room-as-me, horrendous, awful, sunshine-and-laughter-and-cute-4-year-old-girls-cannot-make-me-smile bad mood. I don’t remember [...]
When I was planning Emily’s Minnie Mouse birthday party, I fell in love with this gorgeous cupcake: I found it on a party web site but the source was missing. Finally after much searching, I discovered Claudia Cupcake Lady on Etsy. She sells the fondant ears and bows in her online shop in case you’d [...]
Where have I been, you ask? I know, I know. You’ve been waiting for some of the party tutorials I promised a couple weeks ago. Like these directions for making the wrapped utensils from Emily’s Minnie Mouse birthday party. Life has been crazy busy. Filled with moving around furniture to different rooms in our upstairs to clear [...]
At last, I’ve finally downloaded and edited all of the Minnie Mouse birthday party photos so I can give you the whole party rundown. If you’ve been following along, you’ve already seen my inspiration here, here and here. You’ve also heard my birthday party anxieties and panic and read about my virtually unlimited patience. Right. Oh, [...]
