real moms {sharing} all things fabulous
Last year I was talking with one of my photography friends about how in the world I manage to get so many fingerprints on my lenses (or filters) and how to clean them quickly, safely, and easily. He asked me if I’d ever used a LensPen. I’d never even heard of them before but I…
How many pictures do you have on your phone right now? If you’re anything like me it’s in the thousands. And how many of those do you print out? My answer used to be zero but a few months ago I discovered the Mpix Tap to Print app that can upload your images from your…
GoGoGoGoGO! I try so hard to get up early enough to be ready in time to walk out the door. We have it much easier than most because we don’t have to be anywhere until 9am. Sounds reasonable, right? Like we should be able to do it with no problem. But no matter how early…
We don’t usually do much to celebrate Valentine’s Day at our house. We might have pink heart pancakes for breakfast or go out for ice cream, but usually no flowers or gifts or that kind of thing. I still like to make the day fun and incorporate some L-O-V-E into our school day though. We…
You know what happens when you homeschool? There’s no back-up hot lunch waiting if you don’t get a lunch packed in time. And although my children have learned to make their own sandwiches and wraps, sometimes you get tired of the same old same old. In our most Scooby-rific voice, we call that getting into…
When my girls were born, they both had thick, dark hair that would hold hairbows. But several of our friends had the cutest little bald-headed babies and I remember hearing them talk about using those stretchy headbands to hold in bows and clips or using sticky substances to make those teeny tiny hairbows stick –…
We’re well past the bib-wearing stage in our house, but at almost every single meal we have a spill that requires more than just one napkin. We’re also cloth napkin people, so requiring more than one napkin per person can add quite a bit to the laundry. So I decided to make my own super-absorbent…
There’s no way I couldn’t be a puzzle-lover. My one grandmother always had a crossword puzzle going. Somewhere we still have her old crossword puzzle dictionary with its peeling, worn-out spine. (Did you know that crossword puzzle dictionaries aren’t like regular dictionaries? It’s true. She was also notorious for throwing out words none of us…
Before I started sewing, I’d hear people say, “If you can sew a straight line, you can sew this.” And they’d hold up what seemed like an incredibly intricately sewn item and smile. I’d ooh and aah over their creation and think, “If only I could sew a straight line…” But now that I’ve been…
For our family bedtime means books. We’re all readers and I love that. What I don’t love is how “just one story” can quickly become “just one more story”. It’s great that they want to read but we do eventually need to go to sleep. Well, the folks at Smart Electric have the solution we needed!…
Over Christmas break, we spent a few days with my brother-in-law and his wife and I fell in love with a star pillow she’d made. She told me that it was pretty easy to make and low-and-behold, she was right! It’s just 15 diamonds sewn together. That’s it! I recently recovered my dining room chairs…
I am a doodler by nature. If I’m in a meeting or on the phone, you can go ahead and bet on me to be drawing little designs up and down the margin. If nothing else, I bubble in all the letters that have spaces fit for bubbling. But after some 30(ish) years of doodling,…