7 Reasons Your Kid Should Have a Pen Pal

When you were a kid, did you ever have a pen pal? When I was about ten years old, we met a family from England temporarily located to the the U.S.  We became very good friends with them and it turned out that the mom of the family had a god-daughter in England my age....

Easy Snow Cone Treats

This week, we crossed off an item on our Summer Sand Pail List.  (If you haven’t made a summer bucket list, there is still time!  Go here.)  We made snow cones and invited the neighbors. A couple years ago, Tara gave me this Back to Basics Ice Shaver/Snow Cone...

Fun with Boring Brown Packing Paper

If Mary Poppins can make cleaning fun, then surely we can make something fun and creative out of the hoards of boring brown paper that come in Amazon deliveries.   The paper you see above was over 20 feet long!  While I am trying to save less stuff (because I...

Celebrating Children’s Day

It was bound to happen. Last month, when I told my son that Mother’s Day was coming up, he asked me when was Children’s Day.  A natural question, right?  I told him we would have to look at the calendar and pick a day. Secretly, I had intended to begin...