Gifts that last

With the kids birthdays coming up in just a few weeks, I’ve been thinking about birthday gifts. My Mom visited in May and we went through the kids toys and stuffed animals and ended up donating about 1/3 of what we had plus throwing away broken ones. I felt a lot better after this [...]

Gymnastics Camp Review

Gymnastics camp ROCKED! It was so awesome. The kids had the best time and they came home completely wiped out every day. Twice this week Jake took up to an hour nap and still went to bed – sleeping 12 hours! Alice was the same way, minus the naps. They brought home a handful [...]

Easy Bake Oven Recall

In case you haven’t heard, here is the recall form for the Hasbro Easy Bake Oven – after they put out a recall a few months ago they’ve been getting reports of more problems. Now they are doing this recall for the entire machine – fill out the form and they’ll send you a [...]

Organic Milk Contest

Check out the 5 Minutes For Mom organic milk contest! They are giving away $300 worth of free organic milk products from Horizon Organic. We love Horizon milk – we’ve been drinking it for about five years now and it’s amazing how much different and how good organic milk tastes.

We buy a [...]

School Supplies

Everyone knows I am an office and school supply junkie! I was buying school supplies when my daughter was a baby. I just love all the new paper, pens, new products for the year and of course the great sales. This week Target has 64 count crayons (the ones w/ the built in sharpener) [...]

Local Sewing Classes

After driving by a sewing store every single time I go into town, I finally stopped this afternoon. I grabbed their newsletters which has the class schedule and ignored the prices for the time being. It stinks that I can’t bring kids to the classes with me, I let Alice ‘help’ when I have [...]

Updates

Whew, a long break I took there! I still haven’t found my digital camera and that has really bummed me out. I had a dream that I found the camera in a compartment, like the compartment between the seats in my van. But, I haven’t found it yet. Who is the patron saint of [...]