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You may know, I’m on the Pinterest, and if you’re not personally on the Pinterest consider this fair warning: Stay off: You are perfectly awesome without it and you probably need all the hours in your days for your life and such, if you don’t care to heed this warning… well, welcome!
Anyway, Easter is coming [...]
This next Valentine pinspired craft/ activity brings together two different ideas I found: The crayon heart and a painting project for little ones.
Two is not a bad age for arts and crafts but it can be a little tricky getting [...]
Valentine’s Day has me all excited this year and I think I know why:
It’s got my creative antenna all abuzz – something about the combination of my newest addiction: Pinterest and Bunny being at that age where you get to give Valentines to everyone you know without pressure or expectations. Ahhh [...]
I have a feeling that some of you may already know this but I’m a bit of a procrastinator.
Anyway, about 3 or 4 weeks ago I got an email asking for Christmas ideas by Nov 30th – I thought Great! I have LOTS, and it was lots of time too! Well I quickly [...]
Last year for Bunny’s birthday we didn’t have any activities organized for the little people. At a year old they were pretty much travelling with parents armed with a few of their favourite things and with a little food were pretty happy.
Of course not all Bunny’s child-guests were her age – we had [...]
One of the very first Very Hungry Caterpillar projects I saw and fell head over heels for was the birthday wreath. Okay I know it’s cheesy – but I’m kind of on a wreath kick. I’ve been perfecting my felt flowers for a fall wreath (at this rate it’s coming for Fall 2013) and whipped [...]
So Halloween is right around the corner and I can feel my glucose levels spiking in anticipation. But how to celebrate the season with a little person who:
doesn’t have any idea what it’s all about; doesn’t eat chocolate or sugary foods; is a little scared by all the ghouls popping up all over the [...]
I’ve been getting ready for Father’s Day and all week I’ve had Frances England’s Daddy O song in my head – pretty decent song to be stuck there. It’s from one of the CD’s Bunny and I came across in our methodical search of the library’s children’s music section (i.e. grabbing random pretty [...]
Apparently recent research has shown that people not only appreciate thoughtful gestures – they actually physically feel better because of them!
Listening to the radio on my drive to daycare a few days ago, on a manners segment they discussed the physical impacts of gifts with sentiment.
Two experiments were done:
in the first people [...]
So it’s the night before Mother’s Day – you’ve run out of time to get to the stores and unless you want to hand your mom gas station flowers or a drug store chocolate bar it’s time to get creative!
Never fear! Here are a few ideas for gifts you can make momma that she’ll [...]
