Fun with the Kids

The Great Holiday Exhale

In the clustered, frantic moments after the holiday, the stifled breaths we feel as we muster through the paper, cardboard, and seemingly too-many-to-belong gifts that …

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Make Your Own Crayon Nibbles

In our pre-holiday purge, I came across eleventy-billion broken crayons, of course. I had the kids collect them all and bring them downstairs to peel. …

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How I Look in the Morning

This is me on the couch first thing in the morning.Be forewarned, there is no makeup, no coffee in hand, no brain cells firing yet.Just …

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mickey mouse pancake tutorial

Mastering the Mickey Pancake

My last attempts at Mickey-Shaped pancakes equaled a gigantic mega-fail on my part. See? Really, I know. That was a lame attempt at free-pouring. I …

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A Southern Snow Story

You get a lot of “first times” when raising children, don’t we? First teeth, first words, first step, first day of school.. but it gets …

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First Trip to Disney

This obviously wasn’t my first trip to Disney. Before the Mom Bloggers Mixer, I’d been twice before, both as a child. My husband was told …

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