DIY Toddler Golf Clubs and Putting Green
For the first time in over 100 years, golf will be an event in this summer’s Olympics! Our boys are participating in Junior Golf this year and it seemed only fitting that Little Sister get in on the…
Olympic Clothespin Relay
It’s Day 3 of our “A Very Toddler Olympics” series we are co-hosting with Kristina from Toddler Approved. We are reusing our cardboard Olympic Rings we made for our Olympic Ring Ball Toss on the first day of…
Olympic Ring Bracelets with Pipe Cleaners and Straws
It’s Day 2 of our “A Very Toddler Olympics” series with Kristina from Toddler Approved. You can see all the posts in our series so far here. I love everything about the Olympics and am super excited to watch…
Olympic Rings Ball Toss
Today is our first day of our “A Very Toddler Olympics” series I am co-hosting along with Kristina from Toddler Approved! To kick off this series, we chose to do this Olympic Rings Ball Toss. This activity is great for…
A Very Toddler Olympics
Last summer Kristina from Toddler Approved and I hosted a series called “A Very Toddler Summer“. This year, we’ve joined forces again for “A Very Toddler Olympics” in honor of the upcoming Rio Olympics this August! Our “A…
Rainbow Fish Alphabet Matching Craft
We are reading and exploring the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister for this month’s Virtual Book Club for Kids. The kids and I all enjoyed the beautiful colors (and glittery foil stamping) while reading this book. I also loved…
Sight Words in the Sand
I am so excited to share with you 100 Fun and Easy Learning Games for Kids, a book written by my blogging friends Kim and Amanda from The Educator’s Spin on It. Their book just came out a few…
Road Trips: Why Our Kids Watch Unlimited TV in the Car
It’s nearly road trip season and more often than not, one of my favorite parts of vacation is the time we spend in the car. Yes, in the car. After eight years of parenting (and multiple attempts to keep…
Free Summer Reading Printables
This post won’t be pretty…I’m just basically vomiting this out because I know many of you are like me and are trying to get summer plans all lined out. In all honesty, we have very few plans for summer. A trip…
The Parenting Books that have Impacted Me Most
This parenting gig is hard. It is certainly not for the faint of heart. Each stage brings new joys and new challenges…and just when you think you have it all figured out, our kids go and grow up on…
A Proverb A Day Handwriting Practice
Summer is quickly approaching and although I fully intend to let my kids be bored, I also wanted to have some meaningful work for them to do. Both of my boys struggle in the handwriting department (even after all…
What Your Child Needs to Know Before Kindergarten
Kindergarten is a scary transition for kids and adults alike. Nearly every parent wonders, “Is my child ready?” I’m quite certain almost every parent has googled “what your child needs to know before kindergarten” at one time or another….
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs Bon-Bons
This month’s book in the Virtual Book Club for Kids series we are participating in with some of our favorite blogger friends is Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems. This book is a joy for parents and children alike…it has dinosaurs…
I’ve become a slacker mom…and I’m okay with that.
Parenting is the definition of on-the-job training. Babies don’t come with manuals…and even though the countless parenting books on my nightstand and bookshelf try to prove otherwise, not one single source has all the answers. This fact may also come…
Developmental Screenings
One major concern on the mind of nearly every parent on the face of this earth is the question of whether his/her child is developing normally. I remember that as a new mom I would scour through books to see what…
4 Reasons to Get Your Child’s Eyes Checked
This post is sponsored by AC Lens. All opinions are 100% mine. Vision is a critical part of learning. Without being able to see properly, it is difficult to learn to read or learn the material presented. I still…
Corduroy Math: Learning with Buttons
Since I was a little girl, Corduroy by Don Freeman has been one of my absolute favorite books. I was so excited that it is this month’s pick for our Virtual Book Club for Kids. Little Sister and I…
My Absolute Favorite Monthly Activity Boxes for Kids
This post is sponsored by Ivy Kids. All opinions are 100% mine. Although I stay home with my kids full time and should, in theory, have plenty of time to plan meaningful literature-based activities myself, I have been on…