DVD Organizing
My OCD tendencies were in full force tonight as I worked on a system to organize the kids’ DVDs for the car. No picture tonight because really, how boring would that be? The main things I needed were a way to identify which DVDs or CDs…
Scrapbooking is Hell
I’m not a fan of scrap-booking. Even though I like a lot of other types of crafts I find putting together scrapbooks to be tedious and boring – I just don’t have the patience to mess around with different backgrounds and fonts and stickers…
Movie Night Doodle
This is a doodle that started out as sharpie on paper, then was colored and manipulated with GIMP on the computer. Not to inspired tonight – just ready to go to bed!
Baking Soda and Vinegar Science Fun
We had some fun tonight doing preschooler science – mixing baking soda and colored vinegar to watch the reaction. Here’s how it works: All you need are three ingredients and a few specialized pieces of equipment: baking soda, white vinegar, food coloring, some sort…
Crayola Online Fun
Sometime in the past year when we bought Crayola products they included an access code to use the Crayola Story Studio for six months. I decided to activate the account tonight to play around with it and see what I could do (my code…
Travel Trays
Something that’s always hard for my kids when we’re in the car for a long period of time is having a flat spot on their laps to eat snacks, play with toys or especially color or write on. You can buy special travel trays…
Mother’s Day Entertaining, Part One
Today we had Bappa and Nana over for dinner for birthdays and Mother’s Day celebrating. I made a green bean salad from the Simply Classic cookbook (to go along with chicken and veggie skewers and white rice). I also updated the chalkboard entry table:
Magazine Cutout Collages
Today we worked on art projects – Viv directed us, first to make collages using images cut from magazines, and second that we should make collages of hands. I followed her instructions faithfully – Domi not so much. We each made a collage: Domi’s…
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