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Tips for Cooking with Kids

I had a breakthrough this week. About cooking. With kids. Here’s my secret: let them get messy. Read more below about my tips for cooking with kids!

Here’s what I’d like to happen…

I’ve always had this romanticized idea about cooking with my children. We excitedly pick a recipe – preferably a healthy, organic snack. They carefully pour, stir, and measure. They wash their hands before and after they cook. They clean up their messes. We excitedly set the timer and watch our food bake or cook. And, then we enjoy our creation together. And it’s delicious.

The reality…

Here’s what typically happens in my house.

Do You Doodle?

I am the organizing type. I love to bring groups of people together and plan events. Awhile back I wrote about a Kindergarten Meet-Up group I was organizing this summer to help make the kindergarten transition easier come fall for my little one. Well, my “little” meet up group grew to about 35 families and when… Continue reading Do You Doodle?

My Top 10 Beach Tips for Kids

Today, I want to share my top beach tips for kids. Summertime for our family means lots of beach time – kid play time, water time, sandcastle time (and most of the time) bliss. My husband and I LOVE to take our kids to the beach to play, and we feel so lucky to live fairly close. It doesn’t matter how many times we go…playing in the sand, chasing waves and collecting shells never gets old…

Beach Tip #1

Sunscreen them up before you get there. Once you get to the beach, you will be juggling towels, toys, bags, umbrellas, coolers, and excited kids. It will take you a little while to lug all of your stuff to the sand, all while kiddos are jumping up and down excited. Believe me, it is much easier to take the time to do the sunscreen before you arrive.

How to Make FROZEN Glitter Silly Putty!

This summer, my kids and I are having so much fun with crafts, science experiments and little projects.

After seeing a super fun pin on Pinterest from pagingfunmums.com on how to make silly putty, we decided to make this blog’s “Frozen” inspired glitter silly putty.

Let’s Talk About Sex

This is a compensated post written by me on behalf of Sony Pictures.

Let’s talk about sex.

This is not a topic I normally talk about on my blog, but after seeing the trailer for a hilarious movie called Sex Tape coming out in July with Cameron Diaz and Jason Segal, I had to write about it because most of us married with children people will be able to relate. Big time.

The movie is about a couple who have been married for ten years, two kids, are still very much in love, but well, the passion of the early days has cooled off. In an attempt to bring back the heat to their marriage, they decide to make a sex tape, and the private video is accidentally, shared. Oh, the horror!

You just have to watch the trailer, you will laugh out loud.

Keeping the passion alive after children

The moment you have children, or actually, the moment you find out you are pregnant, your sex life changes. Dramatically….

I love it in the movie when Annie says,