I started making my kids’ birthday cakes after the local bakery botched my child’s first cake. I had requested a tractor cake and placed the order at least a week beforehand. They called me the morning of the party to inform me that they did not have the adorable tractor accessories and what should they do?
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Today, if you walked into my bathroom, you might have thought I had left a salad in there. But no, it was a cloth saturated with white vinegar wrapped around my faucets making you crave a green salad with vinegrette dressing.
Times are tough. Everyone is looking down to see if they see a shiny copper-colored coin, and it doesn’t even matter if the guy is face-up these days. I’m grateful that the check in the mail really was in the mail, and that no one’s strap broke and let “the girls” loose at the Golden Globes last night. But, I am MOST grateful that I am a 38-year-old Girl Scout. Let me rephrase that. I was grateful…
My 5-year-old loves Play-Doh, but she also loves to mix the colors to resemble swirled tootsie rolls with sprinkles…just not as tasty. So..found this and thought I’d share for those frugal moms like me…
Category: Kids' Crafts & Homemade Items
We’ve been working with a poetry unit this semester learning all kinds of poetry styles. We have also been enjoying books of poems by Jack Prelutsky - a master wordsmith for kids! His work inspired a fun project; we decided to collaborate on a poem where we each wrote a stanza. Here are the amusing results.
Category: The Arts
