As many of you know, I am a big fan of playdough.  Usually, I prefer to make a non-cooked playdough since it takes less time and I can make it with my kids.  Sometimes, though; I like to make the cooked playdough since it usually lasts longer than the non-cooked. What you need: 1 1/2 [...]

The school year looms before us and although I love many of the commercials that are airing right now for back to school products, I am dreading the overall cost that going back to school will create. This is actually the first year for me where I have, not one, but two children in school. [...]

“Guess what? Today’s my birthday.” The voice whispered from my son’s room, I cracked an eye open and glanced at the clock, quarter to 7. The first time in 7 years that my son was up before I was on his birthday. Usually birthdays are like Christmas and Easter, where I get up around 5:30 [...]

When I was an Early Childhood Educator, one of my favorite activities to do with my class was Sand Painting. I was always amazed with the outcome and the children loved creating the images, which became 3-dimensional after it dried. This activity is very easy to do and can be done with children of any [...]

Well, today will be my last post on cheap summer activities since the summer is almost here.  Can you believe it?  It feels like it just started and now it is almost over.  Part of me is overjoyed for the school year that is fast approaching.  Maybe, just maybe, I will get through a day [...]

About a year ago, I wrote this creative non-fiction and it has sat on my computer for a while.  I wanted to share it because my post last week for 2 year old development made me think of it. I am a firm believer that rain boots is a necessary staple of not only childhood [...]

You know the famous saying, “Terrible Two’s” and your little baby has finally reached it. I would like to be the first to congratulate you and I would like to mention that the “Two’s” really aren’t that terrible. Sure there are a lot of things that are happening but from both personal experience as a [...]

Mid-summer is a wonderful time of the year; the kids are still home, they are beginning to get bored and are constantly hounding your with questions like, “Mooommm, what can I doooo?” Okay, maybe it isn’t quite that great but around here, the kids love this time of year. Not because they are bored or [...]

Today we are again in for a treat from our guest blogger Tanja Cilia. Read her bio here or simply enjoy her work below. Thanks again Tanja for joining us. ————————————————————————————— “Yoghurt!” my son David shouted. He was not even one year old at the time. We were on our way to the beach, and [...]

Okay, this might have you shaking your head and wondering exactly what I am rambling about this time but when I say garden centers, I don’t actually mean the ones where you go and purchase flowers. I mean those centers where you go and enjoy the gardens that are already created. My family and I [...]