A special 6 year old’s Arts and Crafts Birthday Party.

A special 6 year old’s Arts and Crafts Birthday Party.

7/15/2014 update: Parents Magazine stumbled upon this post and featured Michaels as one of the top 10 Kids Birthday Party Chains in the US. Click on this link to read the article. . To celebrate our creative and artistic Bunny girl’s 6th birthday, we decided it would be fun to put together an…  Arts and Crafts Birthday…

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Organizing a child’s jigsaw puzzle collection!

  Several weeks ago a certain little someone got into his big sister’s jigsaw puzzle collection   . and had a field day emptying out individually packed puzzles to create a puzzle-pourri of sorts!   . To bring sanity to the herculean jigsaw task ahead I decided to organize the puzzles in a way that…

Organizing the Kids Closet with our new Games Organizer!

. Yes I have been busy today, as you will see. I’m excited to present to you our “then Munchkin 6 Shelf Closet Nursery Organizer” and now fun Games Organizer” .   Ta-dah!!…   . I love that everything is at Bunny girl’s reach and I won’t be called to help pull out or find that…

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4 ways to beat the heat at #SeaWorld #SanAntonio

. Early last month our family traveled down to meet with the other Wildside Bloggers and their families at our favorite San Antonio haunt….Sea World, San Antonio.   Photo Credit: SeaWorld San Antonio   Even though we’ve visited SeaWorld, San Antonio several times over the past three years we’ve never ever done what we did…

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Kathy Ireland’s nuggets of wisdom.

As soon as Kathy Ireland began to address us attendees at the Disney Social Media Mom’s Celebration, one could see that this former model/actress not only has the brains to complement her beauty but also a strong streak of business acumen (CEO and entrepreneur of her own company Kathy Ireland Worldwide) and a firmly rooted…

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Mommy to Mommy with Marissa J Winokur

Many people at the Disney Social Media Mom’s Celebration knew who Marissa Jaret Winokur was the moment she walked onto the stage. Her accolades include being the amazingly talented Tony award winner from the Broadway musical ‘Hairspray’ and a successful semi-finalist in Dancing with the Stars, but none of that spoke out to me. The…

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Preschooler in the house?- 5 ‘To School’ tips!

Bunny girl was anything but an enthu. cutlet when it came to the topic of going to school. As parents to a first time pre-schooler you may face the same problem but here are 5 of my ‘To school’ tips to help get your child ready and looking forward to the next milestone in his/her…

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Mommy Tip #12 – Developing a Puzzles Enthusiast.

Bunny girl loves jigsaw puzzles. Once she starts doing one, she just needs to do the rest and what I love to see is her little frame sitting on her alphabet mat, crouching over the pieces, slowly and meticulously putting the puzzle together. She was introduced to her first puzzles when she was 2 and…

Summertime reading

Here’s my new version of Gershwin’s Summertime. All together now, sing along….. Summertime,its time to get our kids readingThere are reading programs, all around the townJust read a few books and they’ll see it’s rewardingAnd once summer is done, they’ll still be reading all the time . Ok, ok, I see the quick curtain call!…

Mommy Tip # 10 – Fun way to teach your preschooler the Noah’s Ark story.

Since mid April, I have been teaching the preschoolers on Wednesdays at our church and I’ve learnt that the best way to grab a child’s attention is to make a story fun and if you have props, all the better. I generally make my own props and I thought it would be fun to share…

Mommy Tip # 9 – Running dry on Mommy Tips?

Running dry on Mommy Tips? Help is on the way!!! Just stumbled across this superb site called ‘Parent hacks’. Its filled with great ideas, creative activities and parenting SOS for practically every sticky situation you may face under the sun. That’s right! This site has everything that your Parent Resource Tank needs to propel forward…