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This post is from from my other blog here As we barrel toward the holidays, it is easy for me to think “we have too many toys!” and my boys just don’t need a thing. Other times, we visit friends for playdates and I think the opposite. Maybe my sons have all the wrong toys. Ugh.
Scary toy pile from Wendy
Here are some how-to instructions for doing an effective toy box sort (adapted from the guidelines by Discovery Toys‘ educational consultants):
- Sort. Make two big piles: “toy keepers” and the “toys you can do without” — More often than ...
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This post is from from my other blog here Plan Toys are exactly the toys I want my kids to like. They are attractively designed, eco-friendly wooden toys without a licensed character in sight. I believe they allow for kid-powered creativity and open-ended preschooler inventiveness like pretending the little crazy-haired dude is a princess who wishes she were an owl.
When we received the Activity Bus from Plan Toys, it was my sons’ favorite toy for one day. Only.
They loved setting up the little bus, desks, and non-gender-specific figurines in little configurations. I was smitten. And they seemed happy too.
On the second day, Holden got mad at us (because we ...
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This post is from from my other blog here
- Little kid-sized backpacks – My son loves having his little backpack that fits his preschooler body just right. Cool Mom Picks shared a 25% off code for these hip toddler backpacks from Four Peas. Type in COOLKIDS at check-out.
- Naptime gift project for shutterbugs – Tracey from ShutterSisters has posted a template for a 2010 calendar that fits in a jewel case intended for CDs. You add your own photographs and Tracey’s taken care of the rest. The template is a set of PSDs, so Photoshop knowledge is required.
- A guide to being a baby cheapskate – Angie collates tons of coupons ...
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This post is from from my other blog here With the economy totally sucking, we’ve modified our babysitter retainer model slightly and are trying to have a few more date nights at home. If you thought it was totally unrealistic when I told you to put your kids to bed before 7pm and have a date-night, I feel you.
Here are six slightly more inventive ideas for dating during your kids waking hours, because let’s admit it, things just ain’t what they used to be.
Dates involving the kids
It can be a tricky balance to let the kids participate and still have it feel like a date, or at least a ...
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This post is from from my other blog here
This is a compensated review from BlogHer and LEGO® DUPLO®
My daughter is abusing the word “because”. She has become a master of the run-on sentence, linking together every thought that comes into her brain, often in a circular logic fashion, with the word “because”.
She is two years old.
Mommy, I was crying because I was looking for my dolly and I find it under da coffee table because I was looking for my dolly because I was crying.
I love that she has enough words at her disposal to give me these explanations.
And since I’m truthfully not such a rookie mom ...
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This post is from from my other blog here We had a board book that I didn’t like too much. The illustrations were too wishy washy and there were too many words. We also had a board book that I loved, by Todd Parr, called This is My Hair. Bold illustrations and simple text. Plus funny. I decided I wanted the first book to be more like the second book. And I needed a Father’s Day gift for my husband.
 So, I painted over the cover of the book, put stickers on it and pasted all sorts of stuff on the inside. The main theme was “This is my dad”. ...
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This post is from from my other blog here A post from Designing Moms crossed my path just as I was realizing that I need a zipper pouch in my purse to contain all the loose pieces I keep for emergency kid entertainment. Plastic spiders, packaged snack bars, and tiny cars are forever preventing me from locating my keys quickly when I dig my hand into my purse.
Guissell identifies the contents of her two tote bags with detailed notations. I would call these two the “with kids in tow” bag and the “without kids” bag.
Some items, like wallet, keys, sunglasses, and phone go into both bags. Things like ...
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This post is from from my other blog here Call me sentimental, but I am a fan of tiny baby feet on little coasters, mugs, and tiles. When Holden was 6 weeks old, we dragged him to a paint-your-own-pottery place to stamp his tootsies on trivets (the cheapest pottery they sold) and I already felt that I had missed his “newborn foot size.” In hindsight, I think I was overreacting just a bit; his feet were still plenty small.
The professional paints baby foot. Baby screams.
Heading out to the local Color-Me-Mine is a rite of passage for many Moms’ Groups and we encourage it. Lord knows we think you should ...
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