I've had cleaning on my mind. I hate it. Cleaning seems simple: put away your stuff and wipe down everything, yet I find my house still fills with clutter and dog hair. I clean it up then start all over again. I'm tired of cleaning and have been spending the last couple of mon…
Again, I'm working to consolidate my blogs: this one comes from the summer but thought it would be appropriate during the holiday season where car travel is prevalent. This summer we have taken a few long road trips and we have a couple of more coming up. Keeping the kids at p…
"The Walking Heat Pack?" my daughter gave me a funny look, "That sounds like The Walking Dead. Are you trying to sell it to zombies?" "No, I was thinking it explains the heat pack better," I said, "but now that you mention it, that's a great idea!…
“OK, ladies, we need to pick a volunteer program for the year,” I said to the Girl Scout troop. I heard a sigh. “What?” I asked, “Is there a problem? Not only is this a good thing to do, it looks good on your college application.” “Yeah, we know,” one girl spoke up, “but, I don’t re…
I've decided to consolidate my blogs and bring my old blogs to this one. So Thurs/Fri blogs will be my oldies but still relevant blogs. This article I wrote an year ago and it fits in with my 7 ways to Distract a Digital game obsessed kid that I wrote earlier this week. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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-…
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