Parenting With Heart And Humor
Fun ways to get your summer hygge on Nothing makes my heart sing more than when the kids embrace the values I so desperately try to instill in them. It’s now summer in the Pacific North West, which means everyone comes out of hibernation, dusts off the cobwebs and embraces nature. Yesterday one of View Post
How to prepare your kid for their first summer camp I won’t ever forget the first time I dropped my kids off at summer camp. Jordan and Jacob walked excitedly down the road, dragging their packed lunch boxes like they were brief cases filled with important documents. Jordan was so small, especially View Post
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12 Ways to Have Unbeatable Fun with Bubbles: You know what’s awesome about bubbles? Everything! I mean really, we arm the children with soap and water and say "have fun!" And they do!? It’s a total win-win situation for everyone. We are talking about some good clean (literally) fun that View Post
Outdoors Gross Motor Ideas School is out for summer! And it’s time to throw the screens in the trash and kick the kids outside, enjoy the outdoors and get moving! We know that gross motor skills are important for muscle and strength development. We know they are crucial to building confidence and View Post
13 Cute & Quirky Pine Cone Crafts The kids and I recently went for an evening walk along their favorite route: through a nature preserve. Thankfully, I had correctly planned ahead and brought along a bag. Yes, our kids are gatherers by nature, so wherever we go, they collect.Kids (and View Post
LEGO Road Trip Activities I teamed up with LEGO® to bring you these fun LEGO road trip activities. All the opinions stated are 100% mine.Jordan looks at me with his piercing blue eyes. “May I please go to bed?”Wait… WHAT?He smiles that cheesy grin he’s known for…. “Yes, please come View Post
(Thank you to Woodpeckers® for sponsoring this post in return for my honest opinion about their products. All opinions stated are 100% mine.)I heard a quiet mumbling coming from the other room. Jansen had been playing by himself for quite some time - so long that a quick check-in was warranted. View Post
Father's Day, birthdays and Christmas are all great causes of gift-giving stress. I never quite know what to get my husband who either has everything, or if he needs something, he buys it himself. Then one fine day, several years ago (four years actually) I decided to put the kids to good use. I had View Post
I am wide awake while everyone around me is happily snoring. My mind is racing a million miles an hour. I have a love/ hate relationship with my brain when this happens. There is an idea brewing in my head and it just won’t stop nagging me. I MUST CREATE! I MUST CRAFT! I reach for the notebook I View Post
The late afternoon sun is beating down on my face. I am soaking up the warmth, taking in the sounds all around me. The kids are playing nicely (not quietly) in the backyard, while I am relaxing after a full day of memory-making fun. This is my first summer as a stay-at-home mom. The magnitude of View Post
“But Mama, you cannot have a dinosaur from the Jurassic period living with one from the Cretaceous period - It just can’t be done!” His forehead was wrinkled and his eyes expressed sadness and confusion.Jacob (9) threw his hands in the air with an exasperated sigh. I was about to commit the View Post
Handprint art & footprint art ideas for every season! His two chubby hands grab my face. I feel his sticky palms on my cheeks. The unmistakable smell of peanut butter sandwich, sweaty little boy and Play Doh lingers in the air. The tip of his nose meets the tip of mine. We look into each View Post
As a child, I sat by the window, for what seemed like hours, waiting… waiting and then waiting some more. Eventually my patience paid off. A lonely sparrow landed, hopped around for a little while, nibbled at the seeds I so carefully had left, before he took off again.Thankfully, when he View Post