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Breakfast on the Go-Go!

Often times breakfast is easy to skip over, especially if you love your sleep just as much as you love food! Mornings are rough, getting yourself ready and kids ready and lunches packed and so on. These are a few easy suggestions for…

Homemade Holiday Gifts

Holiday gifts are expensive and if your kids are like mine, they’ll play with something for a few minutes and they’re onto the next toy. This year I’ve come up with some homemade items that won’t break the bank but will hopefully be…

Holiday Family Photos: Dos & Don’ts

  With that time of year rolling around people are starting to work on holiday photos. If you’re like me I love to plan for family photos so here are a few suggestions from someone who's been on both sides of the camera, literally. Let’s…

What to do When the Kids are off School

With the holiday’s lurking around the corner kids will be getting various holiday breaks for the regularly scheduled school programs. Some parents think this is a blessing, getting to spend extra time with their kids while others, by…

Kid Friendly Leftovers

Now that the holiday has passed for us Americans, those of us who aren't spending the day getting mauled at local department stores for toys are at home trying to figure out what to do with all the leftover food taking over our fridge. My…

Surviving Thanksgiving with Kids

Thanksgiving is quickly approaching for us here and I must say that it completely snuck up on me! If your family is like mine, you’ve got two or more over active children and taking them to someone’s house for a nice meal doesn’t sound…

The Lying Three Year Old

As of lately we've been having an 'issue' with my 3 year old. He's having a bad problem with telling lies. I'm really stumped on how to parent this situation so I'll just walk you through how I've been handling it and any advice rocks! I…

Homemade Preschool!

My son just turned 3 years old in October. Ironically enough even with his sensory processing disorder, he excels in many intellectual things. Often times kids like him have to compensate for what they are ‘lacking’ so for my son he makes…

Mom Advice: Surviving Bath Time

Bath time fun, not for everyone! Not all kids love the bath tub. I know shocking right? For my son, it’s a part of his sensory disorder. Sometimes he loves the bath tub, while others not so much. For my daughter it was a phase, a phase…