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7 Ways to Distract the Digital Game Obsessed Kid

One summer my daughter took up cake decorating Yesterday, I heard on NPR about kids obsessed with digital games .  When I heard a mom say that she limited her son's game usage to 30 minutes a day and that she found that her son was obsessing about that 30 minutes all day long.  Wh…

Make a small pillow box - with template

I'm doing last minute work on our Halloween Haunted house.  I decided I needed a pillow box but alas could not find any in the local stores so I decided to make my own.  It's kind of primitive but I hope self explanatory.  Click here for a free pdf file template of the pillow box…

A Simple Halloween Invitation How-to

Simple and Quick Halloween Invites Each year we throw a Halloween Party for our kids friends.  We have two big strains, new ideas to spook people in our basement haunted house and .... the invitations. My kids insist on making them and frankly the cost for invitations can be pricey…

Fruit fly, don't bother me: Get rid of fruit flies naturally (no chemicals)

Smack , "That's the third fruit fly I killed today." DH said  "Uh, oh, did we leave any fruit out or a peel of some kind?"  He looked in the office trash can and pulled out a banana peel, "Yup. Just for the record, it wasn't me."  Anyone who ha…

Halloween Showdown

Our pop up skull   So my family loves Halloween, and if you don't know, I started as a vlogger.  I thought I'd share with you the videos I have for Halloween.  Haunted House: Every year we do a haunted house, unfortunately I don't get these videos up until after Hallow…

Higher Income equals Higher S.A.T. scores

"The questions that are on the S.A.T. are not the same as the questions they ask in High School.  We'll show you how to decipher these questions." I listened to the SAT. tutors lecture on how best to take the college entrance exam and how they can help.  A book costs, $20-…