We had a super-great time this morning sketching up a little family of fairies from a nice little book we picked up yesterday.  Honestly, my drawing skills aren’t anything to write home about, but following the simple instructions in the How to Draw Fairies and Mermaids book (from Usborne), I couldn’t believe what I came [...]

I stumbled across a recipe at Confeesions of a Bakeaholic a few months ago and was smitten. Okay, so it was in March, as in nine months ago. I wanted to make it, but it was so lovely I thought that it would be a bit too much for a weekend morning. [...]

I’m sure that this has been done before, but I felt terribly creative when I came up with it the other day. It was so simple and fun and turned out so well, I knew that I had to share!

I had a piece of extra-thick craft foam (it comes in individual sheets in the [...]

but I do believe I’ve fixed it now!
That said, when I first started the blog I planned for it to be fairly book-focused. Once I started going I realized that just focusing on books was going to bore me (and everyone else) to no end, and I should just write about what I wanted.
Daddio [...]

Well, we made it home about a week ago.  Our roadtrip stretched to almost ten days of fun, my folks left Tuesday, a few hours before my wonderful husband (who has been on what amounts to a ten-week business trip) cruised into the drive with a 26′ moving truck plus car trailer a few hours [...]

Gwyn at My Kids Art posted a hilariously simple project that I just really liked. Never have toilet paper rolls and confetti been so gorgeous!

I often try to come up with some sort of activity that keeps the kids thinking about the ideas in a book we’ve read, and when I saw the storytime post at Make and Takes this morning, I knew we’d be stopping at the store for some black eyed peas. Go check it [...]

This morning on Z Recommends they had an interesting post regarding Amazon’s new BPA-free baby department. You should read their post for more information, but basically four of the fourteen plastic bottles and sippy cups listed as BPA-free were confirmed to contain the chemical. Although the BPA-containing parts were secondary (handles and a [...]

Jen over at Diary of 1 has a great post about what she and her daughter JoJo have done with the Roots, Shoots, Buckets, and Boots: Gardening with Children book in their own garden, and mentions the idea of theme gardens (like the pizza patch; apizza-shaped garden to grow pizza toppings!) and the best plants [...]

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