With Christmas looming ever closer, Shannon wants our toy recommendations. We don’t have many toys, but I can think of a few that stood the test of time and I never regretted purchasing:
Music Maker Lap Harp - we’ve had ours for many years and it still gets plenty of use. Kids can make real music [...]
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It’s Wednesday, and I’m wondering what Works For Me. I can’t think of anything except what you probably already know…
Chocolate works for me, in any form. The kids giggle every time stress runs high and I reach for chocolate.
Drying laundry outside works for me. I don’t miss my dead dryer one bit!
Decaf works for me. [...]
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My kids occasionally get their hands on some cold hard cash and they have also been known to lose it. Being a good mom (except when I’m busy being a Bad Mom) I offer to hold it for them if it’s a significant amount, and they usually take me up on the offer. I keep [...]
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Here’s one of those ideas that I tend to assume everyone already knows, but I didn’t think of it until my 5th child, so maybe you didn’t think of it yet either. If it’s too obvious, feel free to leave a mocking comment. I can take it.
My babies sleep in their own bed next to [...]
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Gentlemen, turn your heads. If I have any male readers, you don’t need or want to know about this, so just click on to the next blog in your reader.
Really.
Ready?
OK, then. Last Sunday we left the house in a big hurry and I forgot to put nursing pads in my bra. That also happened to [...]
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My memory is toast. That’s why I blog; because I’ll forget my children’s names and faces if I don’t. It’s much easier to remember one url than all the details of the past 2 years of my life. My friend laughed at me today for looking up my own recipe on my blog, but this [...]
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I guess you know you’re a large family when 18 quarts just isn’t enough.
My Very Brilliant Daughter finally solved a longterm dilemma for me. We have an 18 quart electric roaster that we use quite often, but it would be even more useful if we could cook in layers. To do this, we [...]
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Our children are not picky eaters. A few of them want to be, but it’s simply not allowed in our house.I think our children are generally content to eat what is served to them because we usually follow these guidelines:
Do not allow children to request alternate meals if they don’t like what’s being served. [...]
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We call this a latte, though I’m sure it’s not at all authentic. Is is good, however, fulfills my psychological need to sip something warm and coffee-ish in the morning, and doesn’t pack the caffeine punch of a full cup of coffee. And it makes me happy. Not surprising since it contains [...]
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I use re-use those little plastic grocery sacks a lot. I can always tell when it’s time to go shopping, because we run out of grocery sacks.We use them for wrapping dirty diapers before they go in the trash (really bad ones get double-bagged. Atomic ones get triple-bagged and buried in the backyard. [...]
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Shannon wants to know which items inspire brand loyalty in us. When is store brand/generic just not good enough?Our list is pretty short.
Hunt’s Ketchup
Crayola crayons. Rose Art just doesn’t do it for us.
Good chocolate chips - Ghiradelli, Nestle, Hershey, but no cheap stuff. Unless it’s for the kids.
Hellman’s Mayo. Cheap is [...]
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Here’s a quick little tip that my hubby came up with.When we eat out, we always snip the end of the straw for little people whose heads don’t reach far above the table. The shorter straw keeps them from tipping the cup too far as they try to wrap their lips around the top [...]
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I had to shop for shoes for the children last week without the children present. Usually I just take down their sizes and hope the new shoes fit somebody, but this time it was important for me to come home with wearable shoes for the right people.Reaching back into the dark recesses of my [...]
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There are plenty of ways to help stay cool in the summer but here’s my favorite. Obviously it only works if you have wash ‘n’ wear hair.
Put your hair in a pony or clip to keep it up off of your neck and prolong the effect of what you are about to do.
Turn [...]
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Shannon has planned a themed edition of Works-For-Me-Wednesday:What parenting lessons have you learned the hard way? What would you tell a first-time parent?Oh my. Where to begin? And how much do we want to scare the newbies?
Beatrix Potter was a wonderful, talented author with a rich and lively vocabulary, but do not [...]
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