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Cookie-Sheet Travel Activity: Magnetic Sandpaper and Yarn

Over the next week or so, I’ll be sharing some simple activities for road trips using a cookie sheet! Believe it or not, a cookie sheet is a great asset to traveling with children…it can sit in a child’s lap…

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Sleeping Solutions for Summertime

It’s nearly summer…which means the sun is shining early and late. Although this is wonderful for plants and trees…it is often not great for getting your kids to go to bed (and stay there). What kid wants to go…

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Swimming Lessons: Why Every Child Needs Them

As summer draws near and we spend more time in swimming pools and lakes, it’s important as parents of young children to be extremely vigilant around the water. Here are some alarming statistics about drowning from the CDC: -Drowning…

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Learning Based on the Interests of Your Child

Learning in these early years is spelled P-L-A-Y. Although I love to share a variety of ways to “teach” your child various concepts, the best way your child can learn is by playing, and specifically when you play with…

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Supermarket Scavenger Hunt

I often go to the grocery store by myself on the weekends, but occasionally I’ll take the boys with me. Inevitably, someone ends up getting upset about not getting the preferred oatmeal or the candy at the checkout counter….

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5 Things Fathers Should Teach Their Little Boys

1. How to wrestle and roughhouse. There are a lot of things us moms do well, but wrestling and roughhousing are not normally on the top of the list. Boys need to learn how to roughhouse for a variety of reasons….

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Home Security and an Alternative to Home Phone Service

Since my husband took his current job 3 years ago, I have wanted a security system. He is gone at least once a month on business, which I know isn’t a lot for most people but in the 5 years…

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Teaching your child to put on his/her own coat!

Putting on a coat is tricky for even a preschooler to do by him/herself. But this technique makes it a cinch! It’s been a while since I’ve included a self-help/adaptive activity in our thematic units, so I thought our snow…

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Goals, Organizing, and a New Binder?

Something is seriously wrong with me. For the last few days I have been itching to organize. If you knew me in real-life, you would know how ridiculous this sounds. Me, want to organize? Voluntarily? That is one of my most…

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How to Remove the Stench from Sippy Cups

Please tell me I’m not the only one who frequently finds nasty, old sippy cups full of curdled milk!!! We recently left our favorite Contigo cup at church one Sunday morning. We thought we would pick it up the next…

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What To Do When Naptime Ceases…

I don’t know about you, but my sanity break (and my blogging time) comes about 2:00 every afternoon…when my children nap. Both boys have thankfully been regular nappers their entire lives. Until now, that is… Big Brother will be…

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The Lazy Mom’s Guide to Doing Laundry

One thing that irritates me more than anything is washing and matching socks. A sock inevitably gets lost. It takes a million years for me to “triple roll” all those socks. I can’t differentiate one boy’s socks from another,…

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Virtual Photography Class: Depth of Field

I love pictures where the subject is in focus and everything behind it is blurry. It’s my personal preference. The sharpness of a picture, or how much of a picture is in focus, is called depth of field. The depth…

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Virtual Photography Class: Part 1

Well, last night was our first class. And I learned quite a bit of the basic fundamental terms of photography that I had heard thrown around before but never really understood. I told you I would share what I learned,…

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Our New School/Craft Supply Organization

Organization is apparently not my thing. Try as I might, I just can’t seem to stay organized! This presents an assortment of complications, one of them being I can never find what I’m looking for. This is especially true for…

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Baby Sign Language 101

Somehow during the blog transfer, this post was deleted. So I thought I would post it again since it was one of my first posts! It made me kinda sad watching it…Little Brother was so tiny! Has your baby ever…

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8 Inexpensive Ways to Store Craft Supplies

Guest Post by Stacie from Motherhood on a Dime Ahhh…it truly is my favorite time of year! I love Back-to-School sales — and getting stocked up on paper, glue, scissors, and more inexpensively!! Once you’ve stocked up, it’s time to…

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Modeling Healthy Technology Use

Guest Post by Lindsey Stories of technology addiction abound. There have been news reports of parents neglecting their children to play computer games. There have been tales of teenagers developing carpal tunnel syndrome because they send so many text messages….

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