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Wall Stickers – Thank you, Dollar Tree!!
I am not a fan of bare walls. In fact, I’m a mural fan, myself. My husband? All about resale – i.e. neutral. Hmmm… One day I will get some color on the walls. In the mean time, I try to spruce things up here and there on the cheap. When we first moved into our house, I got some cute safari animals and did the kids bathroom. I learned a lesson about re-usable plastic stickers and simple WALL stickers. Stickers, that don’t say re-usable, shouldn’t be put on to bathtubs!!! After a lot of Goo-b-Gone, they were removed. I should have explained that I didn’t change theme, the kids…
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Pom Pom Pushers – Busy Bag Idea
I came across this idea on Money Saving Mom, and HAD to try it! I figured that my one year old would enjoy it and I expected my three year old to be bored quickly. I was mistaken. They BOTH loved it! The photo on the right shows my son with his tongue out. That is generally the easiest way to see if he is actually engaged. His tongue was out almost the whole time he was playing. AWESOME! He was so happy, he wanted to be photographed to “show Poppa!” I got 4 containers for $1.50 at our grocery store, and we had the pom poms on hand, so this…
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Hungry Hungry Caterpillar Read Along Beads
I’ve been working on “Busy Bags for my kiddos (1&3), with the goal of intentional, but not necessarily structured, learning. AND… I’ve got a whole LOAD of books that sit on the shelf, being mostly neglected… and I’m hoping that doing some related crafts and activities will get us all more interested in them. Here is one of the first activities I put together. You will need one large Orange pony bead, purple and green pipe cleaners, scissors to cut the pipe cleaners, a fine tip sharpie, and some smaller pony beads: 5 red – 2 green – 3 blue – 5 orange Feed green pipe cleaner through the orange…
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Air Travel with Babies and Toddlers
I was almost 21 by the time I flew for the first time. Honestly, I thought I’d die in the state I was born in. For that matter, in the same city. I had never been out except on a family camping trip or a field trip and I didn’t feel as though I was missing much. But then, my whole world was in my city, or a surrounding state. I had grandparents, literally, around the corner. I had aunts and uncles and cousins all close by. Then… I met this amazingly funny and uplifting and encouraging Christian guy online. And he flew to meet me, twice… turned out he…
