Organizing Tip #1: Plan Organizing Tip #3: Strategize Organizing Tip #4: Analyze Organizing Tip #5: Attack To begin the decluttering process, start with 5 boxes, labeled as follows: Garbage Donate Another Room Think About Return Begin with one small area and make a huge pile of everything on the floor. Take things out of previous … Read more
In honor of January being National Get Organized Month, this post about planning is the first in a five part series about getting organized! For more organizational hints after this post, click here: Organizing Tip #2: Sort Organizing Tip #3: Strategize Organizing Tip #4: Analyze Organizing Tip #5: Attack PLAN I went to an organization … Read more
Telling you about my favorite things was a lot of fun! There are many many more things that I love, so we’ll do this again. But for now, here’s my Christmas Favorite Things Recap: 1. The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants by Jackie Silberg and Pam Schiller 2. Olympus FE-280 Digital … Read more
I got a forward from my sister with pictures of entries submitted to an art contest for the Hirshhorn Modern Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. I don’t know if this contest is for real, you can never trust forwards (look at update at the bottom for artist’s information), but the art is really amazing. The … Read more
Kids need to do creative and interactive things each day rather than just watching TV and engaging in only passive recreation. The Toddler’s Busy Book by Trish Kuffner is a great resource for moms, pre-school teachers, day care providers, etc. It has some great ideas for fun activities and games for 1 1/2 – 3 … Read more
While I am not an avid TV watcher, I do like movies occasionally. Movies are great for a couple reasons: no commercials you can skip the smutty scenes you can watch the good ones over and over We got something old and something new: Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Harry Potter and the Order of … Read more
I don’t know how many times over the last several years that I have thrown up my hands in frustration over a cheap iron. No more. For Christmas this year I got a Rowenta “Effective” iron that is fabulous. This iron is in the mid-low price range for Rowenta irons, but I think it’s perfect … Read more
My mom got my sister and I this cookbook by Jessica Seinfeld, who developed the recipes after enduring constant battles with her children to eat their vegetables. She says in the introduction that the idea for this cookbook came about when she was making a sweet potato puree for the baby and macaroni and cheese … Read more
We love games in our family. Both my husband and I grew up in game playing families and so we’ve carried that tradition on together. The newest addition to our collection is Ticket to Ride, which has several different versions. I was only aware of two, but apparently there are four different versions: USA, Europe, … Read more
Tedd Arnold has written a three book series about a little boy who takes a bit too literally all the things he hears people say. The books are about a boy’s misunderstanding of “body-part idioms.” For example, when his dad says, “Give me a hand,” the boy thinks his dad really wants him to give … Read more