Cupcakes and Commentary

We gave A a little strawberry plant that I found in the dollar bin at Target for Valentine’s day. We haven’t had the chance to start the plant, so we did it this week and it was such a great activity and really pre-school friendly for A. Here is the little plant: It’s a little [...]

The inspiration for these ideas was mixing “old” with “new”. It’s not necessarily old, but I wanted to incorporate items I borrowed from family with items we had and a few new purchases. I started out with a theme for J’s room, but ended up being more inspired by colors and patterns and went away [...]

From inspiration to creation. The inspiration: A canvas idea I found on Pinterest. The creation: The changes I made: I used buttons instead of decoupaged leaves and I kept the background white instead of antiquing it to match J’s room. I free form traced the tree with a pencil first, then painted it a deep [...]

I found this super cute Valentine’s Day craft idea on Pinterest. We didn’t have the exact materials for the craft, so as usual we improvised. Here is how we created our heart! Materials: Pink construction paper White cardstock Red paint Glitter Glue Safety scissors Details: I traced hearts out of the card stock and A [...]

**Attention** If you are a Grandparent/Great-Grandparent of A, stop reading…unless you want to be spoiled on an item coming to a Christmas present near you! Who needs emoticons when your child provides you with unlimited “winky faces”? This year has been tougher to get A to do crafts then last year. I suppose it’s an [...]

So A and I finally finished a craft that we started about two weeks ago today, so I thought I would post it! It was inspired by this pin on pinterest that I found. The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle was one of my favorite books growing up and now it is one of A’s [...]

On Friday morning I decided A and I could spend some time working on a few simple fall craft ideas I had picked up from shopping at Hobby Lobby and looking through Pinterest. Our first craft was painting a wooden spider and pumpkin that I had purchased at Hobby Lobby. All you need is paint, [...]

So just for my own personal memory…here is Super A’s original room and set-up. And now here is his new big boy room… My husband is dying to purchase these super mario wall decals to put in the space between the animal canvases and the bed. I have to say it would be pretty funny. [...]

We are in the process of moving Super A into our guest bedroom (aka the big boy room). Our guest bedroom and closet is significantly larger than A’s current room, so we decided to move him to that room so he would have more space to play. His old room will be for “his baby [...]

I couldn’t think of a better name for this post, so there you go. As you may have noticed my one week of meals has gone by the wayside. With being sick at dinner almost every night for the past month, it doesn’t make you feel much like blogging about dinner. In the fall I [...]