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Here in Michigan, while we may have harsh winters, we are blessed with amazing summer and fall produce. My family loves to pick produce when it’s fresh and freeze what we don’t eat. Here are a few tips for picking and freezing fruits and veggies. First, look at your local farms and see where and…
What’s the most important thing for mom and baby to get when that baby first comes home? SLEEP! Babies will sleep 12-20 hours a day with they are first born. We need to help keep them satisfied and comfortable so they can get their sleep. One of the biggest and best advice I got when…
When my daughter was in the second grade I began to worry that something was wrong. She had struggled in school her first and second grade years and I was about to have baby number three. As a teacher I wasn’t bringing in a huge salary, and when I priced how much it was going…
While we still have about a month left of summer our local library’s summer reading club will be wrapping up this coming week. My kids have been in a BIG push to add as many reading minutes as they possibly can before final entries for prizes have to be turned in and every book in…
Have you seen all our Disney inspired posts recently? I’ll summarize, but you must see the Ridemax post if you will be taking a trip to Disneyland or Disneyworld. They are very kindly giving away 3 one-year subscriptions for their planning software (ends July 24). Carinn also shared a great roundup HERE with Disney inspired…
I don’t know about you, but I am on the go all the time keeping up with my girls’ schedule this summer. If we aren’t going to a camp, we are headed to the beach or a pool. We definitely get the most out of the extra sunlight hours during the summer. I pretty much…
Think about this, you have your baby and you want to show them off to family and friends but you want people to stay back. This is where Milk Snob comes in. You know it is pretty sure that family friends are going to come over and want to see your newborn. Which is great. …
Do you ever wonder what you can use on your little one when they have a tummy ache or are sick? There is a very limited selection for newborns and children under one. This is why I wanted to share with you Dr. Loo’s Natural remedies Harmony Patches. But not only are these patches for…
Whether you have your first or fifth child, you will want one of these amazing products I am about to share with you. I shared Binxy Baby a while back when my daughter was little and it was the most amazing product that I took with me every where that I would need to use…
Over the years I have ended up with an abundance of vases, but unfortunately most of them are clear. Wouldn’t you like to be able to change the way your glassware looks? Maybe you just want to be able to impress your friends by telling them you created the glassware effect on the vase yourself!…
On our first family trip to Walt Disney World four years ago I had the foresight to get my girls cute custom made Minnie-themed outfits. Two years ago when we went again I had a busy toddler and managed to get everyone fun Disney tees to wear each day but nothing out of the ordinary….
I love having all the kids home for the summer, but it’s a challenge at times to keep them playing independently. I’m not talking independently playing video games either. Although they would do that just fine for 12 hours a day – every day. We’ve been purposefully putting away the electronics and making sure we…