My Family Loves It

I couldn’t go to sleep without putting a few pictures up of our 3 little trick-or-treaters! We all had a great BUSY Halloween day.

Last night I read the boys one of my favorite kids books, Room on the Broom. This book is a fun story about a witch and her animal friends whom she gives rides on her broom. What makes the book special is the wonderful rhythm of the story. Like Doctor Seuss, the [...]

Ethan made these Halloween cookies at school and wanted to make them at home so we did yesterday when we had the 2 kids I watch. I am a homemade cookie person BUT I didn’t want to roll cookie dough with 5 kids so I bought the log of pilsbury sugar cookie dough. Each [...]

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Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I’ve been back in DIY mode working on finishing the footings for our new deck - passed inspection! This past weekend I was hoping to get ahead on some posts, but I had to stay up to test some servers at work Saturday night to make [...]

One thing I love about Adobe Photoshop Elements is the time line above the image browser. Every once in awhile I like going back in time since these kids grow up way too fast. Last year on October 27th Ethan and Ben were learning about fire fighters and Jamie was looking cute.

Today the Parent Bloggers Network is discussing picky eaters to help promote the publication of Deceptively Delicious, a cookbook with recipes for hiding healthy food in meals your kids will like eating.
As a kid I was a notoriously picky eater. The family joke was that I wouldn’t eat anything green. In truth [...]

We have a very strange problem with the faucet in our main bathroom. When you use the cold water, especially in the morning, you get a horrible rotten egg smell. No other water source in the house does this and even the hot water of the same faucet does not do this. [...]

So I have mentioned being pregnant and I’m sure it will come up a lot the next 7 months. I don’t have bizarre cravings but I do seem to crave things occasionally (like I bought myself Pop Tarts last grocery trip and I never buy them or want them). Two nights ago I was ending [...]

I saw this on some site and I can’t believe how well it worked! Anyone with kids NEEDS TO TRY THIS! You mix equal amounts of shaving cream and glue and then paint with it. I thought it would be fun on black paper to make clouds and ghosts (I cut out little circles of [...]