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Taking Time to Tinker - Connect with the kids, while they connect pieces! Great reminder for parents everywhere!

Taking Time to Tinker

The heavy rain drops are beating on our windows. The water is falling from the sky by the buckets, leaving us little to no chance of hitting the playground today. I am at home with all four kids. One is growing more restless than the other, it slowly spreads throughout the house like the plague. The View Post

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Smart photo storage solutions for families. A mother of four shares how she preserves all their photos without breaking the bank.

Smart Photo Storage Solutions for Families

We are sitting on the couch, as we do every evening. My husband is next to me and my old pal, the laptop is perched on my legs. There is nothing unusual about this setting or the evening, it is business as usual for us. I open my laptop… nothing. I close my laptop, open it again… nothing. A black View Post

Filed Under: Life Style, Reviews Tagged With: Motherhood, review, Saving Money

Lessons from a Farm Tractor. Playing with my toddlers' new toy taught me a lesson.

Lessons from a Farm Tractor

This week was peppered with long to-do lists, some frustration, LEGO covered floors and not a lot of progress. It was simply one of those weeks where I ran around in the hamster wheel and got nothing accomplished. I could have beaten myself up over it, or… I could say “to heck with it all… it’s time View Post

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Motherhood, review, Toddlerhood

Brick or Treat at LEGOLAND Florida Resort! A Bricktacular Time - Guaranteed!

Brick or Treat at LEGOLAND Florida! A Bricktacular Time!

LEGOLAND Florida Resort has stepped up their festivities for Halloween this year. I have all the details of their "Brick or Treat" fall fun, in addition to pictures that truly speak for themselves. Don't miss this year's Brick or Treat at LEGOLAND Florida resort - you are guaranteed a bricktacular View Post

Filed Under: LEGO, Reviews Tagged With: LEGO, review

Join me in saving up to 90% off mom essentials

Join Me In Saving Up To 90% Off Mom Essentials

(This post is sponsored by PatPat, a fun shopping app offering savings up to 90% off mom essentials. The opinions are mine, all mine!) Soccer season is kicking off here in our corner of the world. With two soccer players in the family we have training and games 5-6 times a week. Just thinking of View Post

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: review

Halloween with LEGO Minifigures. Follow @MamaintheNow on Instagram for all the latest adventures of the LEGO Minifigures.

Halloween With LEGO Minifigures

I have over the past few months had a lot of fun with LEGO Minifigures! I may or may not carry them in my purse, just in case a photo opportunity should present itself. The latest series of LEGO Minifigure blind bags, series # 14 is Halloween-themed and SO much fun! Thank you, LEGO for sending me a View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Fall/ Autumn, LEGO, Reviews Tagged With: Danish, Kids, LEGO, Pin THIS!, review

Through Knowledge Comes Power: Sex Education for Young Kids

Through Knowledge Comes Power: Sex Education for Young Kids

"Through Knowledge Comes Power: Sex Education for Young Kids" a guest post by Bel Messer. Now we aren’t speaking about puberty or adolescence here. I am simply suggesting that we educate our young kids from 5 years in an age appropriate fashion. Believe it or not, "how babies are made" is a common View Post

Filed Under: Parenting, Reviews, Teen (13-18 years), Tween (10-12 years) Tagged With: Guest Blogging, health, Kids, Parenting Shortcut, review

Happiness is... This Mother's Elevator Pitch

Happiness is This Mother’s Elevator Pitch

Elevators intrigue me. In the corporate world we are encouraged to have an “elevator pitch”, a quick blurb that you can spout off to a complete stranger in the time the elevator takes you from the lobby to your designated floor. Your elevator pitch should convey to said stranger what it is you View Post

Filed Under: Motherhood, Reviews, Special Needs Tagged With: Happiness, Motherhood, review, special needs

Thank you amazon, for not letting my kids go commando

Our Kids Will NOT Have to Go Commando, Thanks to Amazon!

This weekend I was picking out the kids' "first day" outfits, when all of a sudden it hit me: "UNDERWEAR!"! I forgot to buy the kids new, fresh, crisp, clean underwear! Of course new underwear isn't on the supply list provided by the school, but I always use "back to school" shopping as an excuse to View Post

Filed Under: Our Life Tagged With: family, Funny, review

LEGO Makers Get Real. See how LEGO Makers create a useful product out of LEGO Technic components.

LEGO Makers Get Real! #RealLEGOFan

One of the things I love about LEGO is its versatility. The possibilities are truly endless, only limited by the builder’s imagination and creativity. LEGO recently challenged a group of LEGO Makers to build something cool, unusual yet functional with LEGO bricks. Watch the results as the LEGO View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Reviews Tagged With: Danish, LEGO, review

LEGOLAND Florida Hotel Discount

LEGOLAND Florida Hotel Discount!

By now you have seen the colorful pictures from the grand opening of the LEGOLAND Hotel at LEGOLAND Florida Resort. The decorated rooms and the themes carried throughout the entire property. The attention to detail is impeccable. A stay for a night (or more) is on every LEGO-loving child’s wish View Post

Filed Under: LEGO, Reviews Tagged With: LEGO, review

Duplo Flash Cards. Learn Numbers and Colors in English and Danish

DUPLO Flash Cards (Free Printables)

LEGO recently sent us this adorable DUPLO set for Jansen. I am not quite sure who was more excited, me or him… We both saw endless opportunities for hours of fun. Of course we played with the tractor and we built towers, cars and houses. However, DUPLO sets are much more than building blocks. I saw View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Parenting, Printables, Reviews Tagged With: Danish, Kids, LEGO, Parenting Shortcut, review, Toddlerhood

Smart Bottoms Review

Smart Bottoms Cloth Diaper Review

Jonah and I recently had the opportunity to try the Smart Bottoms’ Organic, one size all-in-one (AIO). We were provided a diaper for the Smart Bottoms cloth diaper review, but the opinions are our own, especially Jonah’s. First some baby stats, for comparison’s sake. Jonah in all his glory is a View Post

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Baby, Cloth Diapering, giveaway, review

Tips for School Photo Success

Tips for School Photo Success with Faultless Premium Starch

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Faultless/Bon Ami Company    for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. School pictures! Don’t we all love the overpriced photographs of our kids’ awkward smiles in wrinkled shirts, standing in front of backdrops left over from an old Olan Mills View Post

Filed Under: Life Style, Reviews Tagged With: Home, review

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