It seems every year we take at least one road trip. Whether it's just a few hours or a road trip spanning many days, I need to plan on several activities to entertain my kids. I have been trying to think of a lot of different types of activities to keep my kids busy and happy in the car. We will be taking our Leap Readers, tablets, portable DVD players, a couple of favorite toys and lots of snacks. When I was growing up I remember singing a variety of weird travel songs like "One bottle of pop, … [Read more...]
Pot of Gold Cupcakes + Rainbow Printable
It's time to start celebrating St. Patrick's Day! Between treats, crafts, Leprechaun traps and all things green, March can be a very fun month! Get ready because we have a couple ideas to share to help you celebrate St. Patrick's Day big!Themed food is a fan favorite at our house. Every time a holiday is approaching I get asked if we can have themed food, mostly treats. First up in our St. Patrick's Day themed food department are these cute Pot of Gold Cupcakes. We have designed these … [Read more...]
Powder Point Designs Review and Giveaway
I love to have custom art in my home. I have made shadow boxes for 2 of my 3 kids to hang in their rooms. My husband is designing subway art with my kids birth facts to also go in their rooms. It is fun to have customize decor that no one else has!I also love to have lots of decorations around the house for the current holiday or season. It makes the house cheery and the kids love it!For these reasons I LOVE Powder Point Designs! Marybeth, the owner, is fantastic at making cute … [Read more...]
Homemade Bingo Cards
Over the next several posts I will be showing you the different games I made for my daughter's birthday party. We decided to have a Halloween carnival since her birthday falls a few days before Halloween. Our first game was going to be BINGO. I want to print my own BINGO cards and have a big group game to start the party off. After the game of BINGO we would then separate into different activities. The first group would start on the caramel apples while everyone else played the different … [Read more...]
Scholastic Printable Worksheets
Now that summer is quickly approaching I am starting to think about how to help my daughter keep up her school skills over the summer. I think it is definitely important to provide continually learning opportunities for our children during the summer. We do not want them to lose everything they have gained during the school year. I think that I will take a little time each day to work on school by printing out some Kindergarten printables as a review and some 2nd grade math worksheets as a … [Read more...]
Printable Weekly Meal Planner
This post contains affiliate links. As I was doing some blog hopping a few days ago I stumbled across this cute FREE PRINTABLE meal planner! It comes from The Executive Mom who has generously shared it on Tip Junkie! You can click the link and download it for free and print out as many copies as you want! Printable Weekly Meal Planner This is really going to help me with my goal of meal planning this year (which, by the way, is a struggle). This goes above and beyond my meal planning goals as … [Read more...]
