Vegan Applesauce – Oatmeal Cookies!

I really wanted to make cookies for my daughter to partake of after school. One major problem I had no butter and no shortening! So I once again Googled something: no butter or shortening cookie recipe.  Low and behold I found one that I had all the ingredients too! Applesauce-Oatmeal Cookies   3 c. oatmeal1 … Continue reading →

First Day of School

To make my life easier this week I spent the Sunday labeling and packing snacks for the week. I cut up carrots, measured out raisins, grapes, and olives put them in little baggies with labeled with my daughter’s name. I then packed all those snacks in two containers and wrote the contents on them with … Continue reading →

Portfolio for Youngsters

My daughter loves to paint, draw and color, so much that our fridge is an over crowded art gallery.  I decided to take my daughters pictures and trim them to 8 1/2″ x 11″ and put them in a spare three ringed binder with plastic sheets.  Not only can she look through all of her … Continue reading →

Twitter and Other Blog Stuff

I finally did it – I joined Twitter. I have no idea what I am doing or why I am doing it but I joined Twitter. Once again it is because all the “cool kids” are doing it so I decided I needed to too!  So there are buttons everywhere and a Twitter Feed, I … Continue reading →

Blog Hopping Friday!

Since I now have 26 32 Followers (as of this morning)- THANK YOU!!!!! I am officially motivated (obsessed) and want more 🙂  I honestly wasn’t expecting to be as devoted to this blog but I am having so much fun and I hope everyone else it too!  I will say the more Followers I have … Continue reading →

What’s for Lunch – Magnet Calendar?

What’s for Lunch – Magnet Calendar?

I needed to think of some way to keep track of my daughter’s lunch/snack menu for the week.  The only real criteria I had was that it had to be easy enough that she could do it herself because it is her lunch and she has a right to pick a healthy lunch/snack.  Also needed … Continue reading →

Craft Stick Puzzles

I have mentioned my giant box of Craft Sticks before and believe it or not I will have to replenish my supply shortly. My daughter starts school on Monday so she only has a couple more days of being “crafty” with mom. Today I wanted to do something simple and fun. My daughter loves puzzles. … Continue reading →

Pom-pom Ladybugs…

Today’s craft project was all about Ladybugs!  Before we started I looked up information on Ladybugs, so we could all learn something about Ladybugs (which aren’t really bugs they are beetles).  Here are the two websites I read to my daughter about Ladybugs:National GeographicEverything About Ladybugs Once we had our fill of knowledge we made … Continue reading →

The Search for a Clear Backpack…

The Littlest Pet Shop Case My daughter starts school August 30th and the only thing we were missing was a clear or mesh backpack. My criteria for this: it needs to at least appear that it will stay together longer than a week and it needs to be “girly” (my daughter wanted a pink one). … Continue reading →

Background Image…

Well I finally figure out how to get a background image without having to do a ton of HTML.  Blogger in Draft is the official testing site for Blogger.  One of the soon to be new features in the Design process is adding your own background.  All you need to do is make sure your … Continue reading →