It's my absolute favorite time of year, baseball season!! Derek played in his first baseball game of the season on Tuesday and weather permitting he has 4 games in the next 6 days. With baseball season comes many runs to the store to pick up extra equipment, new cleats, updating outgrown gear from last year that is just a tad bit too small and so on. Some see dollar bills flying out the windows ...
Childhood
Sports Books for Young Readers
My son Derek is 8 and in 2nd grade. Derek is absolutely obsessed with every single sports team and player. While he loves to play sports and has cheered for local teams for a few years, this year Derek has a true passion to learn the ins and outs of every sport, every team and every player. He knows nicknames, history, player and team records. It's amazing how much information he takes in and ...
No Damsels in Distress: Showing Our Girls STRONG Girls Through Books and Shows
Girls as young as six years old believe that brilliance is a male trait, according research into gender stereotypes. WHAT!!!?? Say it isn't so? Well according to this article in The Guardian featuring a study co-authored by an NYU professor “Already by this young age girls are discounting the evidence that is in front of their eyes and basing their ideas about who is really, really smart on ...
Ringing in 2017 with Netflix countdowns for kids
I can't believe 2016 is over!! Wasn't it just 1996?? Time flies and being a mother I feel like it's flying even faster. My kids legs are getting longer, they say silly grown up things and even understand it.. The last part I think is from all the Full House and Fuller House that they watch. Oh Mylanta, I have a little Stephanie in my house for sure!! She is silly and witty!! When it comes to ...
“One Big Happy” Holiday Season
The holiday season is my absolute favorite time of the year. Nothing beats the excitement and joy in my children's eyes when they see the holiday lights, decorations, gifts, Santa, Christmas cookies and so much more. Celebrating all of the holiday seasons's happy moments, big and small. On the flip side of that, sometimes all the excitement of the holiday season can cause them to get completely ...
DIY Monogrammed Headbands
Since the soccer season was coming to an end just as I received some glitter stretch HTV (heat transfer vinyl) I knew that I needed to make Hayley's soccer team monogrammed headbands. Doesn't everyone just feel the need to do that when they see stretch htv? Pro World was kind enough to send me some silver Siser Glitterflex HTV to use for this project. First I ordered plain black headbands ...
17 Ways to Ask Your Kids “How Was School Today?” without asking “How Was School Today?”
If your kids are anything like mine then when you ask them "How Was School Today" they reply with a big old "FINE" sometimes a huff and puff because you bothered them by daring to ask how their day was and other times just a quick short "fine, can I go now?" For me it's just not enough, I am a Mother Hoverer, I need to know more, I can't relax till I know more and if I could I would watch ...
DIY Rap Inspired Tees
I might be obsessed. Might, might be a lie. I AM obsessed. I can't stop making shirts on my Silhouette. Special thank you to my enabler Pro World for sending me so much amazing Siser Easyweed Vinyl <--- Nothing Compares To You (I hope you read that channeling your best Sinead) This week I was obsessing with Halloween and how to make my house look more festive without spending another $50 ...
DIY Halloween Tees For Kids
I love having my Silhouette Portrait because I can whip up custom shirts for the kids any time I want. My kids are at an age where they want to be in line with whatever the theme is at school or the holiday of the season. This is especially true for my daughter Hayley and she is all about GLITTER. If you know me you remember our issue last year when Hayley's school had a SHINY DAY, as in wear ...
Ultimate Hoops Training at Life Time Athletic
It seems as time moves on more and more sports are adding professional training to their practice schedule. Gone are the days of the coaches, that are mostly parent volunteers, trying to figure out how to run a practice for a sport they might not have even played as a child. I have noticed with my own children how much the professional training has helped them develop the key fundamental skills ...
Storks Movie Pass Giveaway
One of the best memories I have from childhood is my dad picking me up early from school to take me to the movies. I loved when we would go see my favorite characters up on the big screen and share a bag of twizzlers. As a mom, I now love to bring my children to the movies, have them forget the outside world and for 2 hours dive into a new land and story. Have you seen the previews for the new ...
13 Tips to Get the Kids Off to School Without Too Much Fighting
It's been a little over a week since the kids went back to school and I feel as if I have been caught in a wind tunnel ever since. The routine in our house has changed, we are letting the kids sleep later and we are getting up earlier. All in an effort to leave less time for them to argue, dawdle and not find their sneakers for twenty minutes. Now their sneakers are waiting for them on the ...
