My daughter had a moustache. A bonafide, clear-as-day moustache. It wasn’t milk, it was flour. Kids often have more fun with simple household items than with toys. My toddler recently discovered flour and is all kinds of crazy for playing in the white dust for hours. Yes, I said hours. This is good, very, very…
How to Store Cloth Diapers
As a cloth diapering parent at some point you’ll be faced with the dilemma of how to store both outgrown cloth diapers and diapers that your child still needs to grow into. Rest assured that storing and organizing extra diapers only takes a few minutes. It’s important to keep cloth diapers that are no longer…
Graffiti Artist at Work
Summer Elizabeth loves playing outdoors. If our neighbor’s chow chows didn’t leave so many “gifts” in our yard, I’d let my daughter hang out there more often. For now, she’s a sidewalk dweller, a street artist in miniature. She can’t get enough of her sidewalk chalk. Bright sparkling glitter chalk embellishes our walkway, glistening in …
Family First: Tot School Agenda
This is the third post in the Family First series. Check out the saucy marriage post and then grab your own free tidy home printable to maintain a consistent clean without the hassle. This year, I’m making fun learning a priority with my two year-old by creating a tot school agenda. Last year we started…
Stretch Wrap Baby Carrier for Newborns
It’s no secret that my family is a baby wearing family. Most afternoons you can catch us strolling the neighborhood with two kids in tow, Husband with one, me with the other. Sometimes I sport the newborn in a sling carrier, while other days I choose a stretch wrap baby carrier. No matter which baby…
Costa Rica Beach Trip: Tivives, Puntarenas
When your family lives thousands of miles away in the landlocked Midwest, you oblige them when they visit Costa Rica with a trip to the beach. My mother visited a few months ago and we headed to a beachhouse in Tivives, Puntarenas, owned by a friend of a friend. Ticos are generous. They barely knew…
Family First: Tidy Home
This is the second post in the Family First series. Read the saucy marriage post here. The words “keeping house” make me think of 1950’s sitcoms, pearls, and perfectly polished silverware. Who does that? Maintaining a tidy house is important to me and my family, whether or not I don an apron and heels to…
Help Baby Sleep Anywhere
Snuggling up for a well-deserved rest is top priority for the wearied traveler. That’s hard to do if your baby doesn’t want to cooperate. Every parent who has traveled with a baby knows how important it is to make sure baby can sleep anywhere. By the time my daughter was a year old, she’d slept…
Family First Challenge: Husband
New Years means starting fresh. Daydreaming about new accomplishments and challenging ourselves to try new things is invigorating. Don’t you just love the sense of accomplishment that comes from reaching your goals? One year I vowed to run 12 miles straight and finished in four months. Another time I made a $5 weekly grocery budget…
3 Ways to Pull the Nativity into Christmas
We’re putting the Christ in Christmas this week, sharing intentional and doable ideas to focus on our Savior in the “C” is for Christ(mas) series. Today, Gabby from MamaGab is featuring three ways to use the nativity to highlight Jesus this Christmas. Where’s baby Jesus? Jesus hide-and-seek of sorts is my fave of the three…
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