Birthday Party Checklist When Planning A Sweet 16 Party

Birthday Party Checklist

This Birthday Party Checklist When Planning A Sweet 16 Party post is written on behalf of LinkVehicle. It was a long time ago that I turned “Sweet 16″, and honestly do not remember my birthday being quite so sweet. It is a little strange now to have friends of mine with kids who are turning 16 [...]

Shake It Up: I <3 Dance Music CD Review

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This Shake It Up: I <3 Dance Music CD post is brought to you by Child’s Play Communications. All opinions are 100% my own. Do you have kids between the ages of 2 – 11? Do they watch the hit Disney TV series Shake It Up? All three of my children love this show and have [...]

How to Create Personal Space for Kids in Shared Rooms

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Recently I have had to look at how to create personal space for Megan who shares a room with Anna. Megan is nine, almost 10 and Anna is five. When we found out we were pregnant with twins 5 years ago, we knew at some point Megan would need to share a room. I had [...]

Tom’s of Maine “Be A Tooth Fairy Hero” Contest

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It has always been a priority of mine to have healthy teeth and keep my children’s teeth healthy as well. Up until a year a go I had only had one cavity my whole life. The cavity was on a molar in the back of my mouth that was always very hard to reach. I [...]

Technology Gifts for Kids – The Ubooly #AdoptUbooly

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Kids are getting more and more technologically savvy.  I never cease to be amazed at how quickly they learn to get around on a computer or an electronic device.  It seems now that there are so many handheld devices kids are learning even younger how to maneuver around technology.  Our twins (Anna & Ethan) are getting [...]

Online Wish List Creation With #GiftBirdy

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Each year my kids make their Christmas list on a large sheets of paper and, generally just add on to it as they see more things they want.  However, usually by the time we are actually ready to sit down and look at the list and decide what we are going to get off that [...]

Decorating Kids Bedrooms

Decorating Kids Bedrooms Over the past year we have been working on moving the kids into different bedrooms.  In the process of doing the room switches we have also been decorating kids bedrooms.  Anna and Ethan have shared a room since they were born, and Megan has had her own room.  Then in November of [...]

Improve Math and Reading Skills With K5 Learning

I am so excited to be given an opportunity to review K5 Learning – Reading and Math Enrichment.  K5 Learning is designed to be an after school study program for children in Kindergarten through 5th Grade.  It can also be used in conjunction with a homeschooling program.  This is an excellent way to build math, [...]

Create Digital Photo Memory Books with Paper Coterie

Digital Photo Memory Books I always take a ton of pictures and then download them on my computer and there they sit.  I always have high hops of scrapbooking, but in reality I never make the time to do it.  So in the meantime the pictures just sit.  I was recently given a coupon as [...]

Our Top 10 Ways to Keep the Boredom Away

National Anti-Boredom Month I realize I am very late on this, in fact, I don’t think I could get too much later!  Does that even make sense?  I just found out that it is National Anti-Boredom Month and National Hot Dog Month.  Dang, I could have had fun with both of those.  But in celebration of [...]

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Fun Craft Ideas Using Beads

Now that my oldest is 8, more like 9 since she will be turning that in a couple weeks, she tends to get a lot more gifts that are DIY.  Such as making garden stones, watches and jewelry with beads.  There are actually a lot of great craft ideas using beads I have come across [...]

A Very Loved Care Bear Costume

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Yesterday, Friday, Megan decided to pull out costumes with Anna and Ethan and play dress-up.  One of the costumes she pulled out is a Care Bear costume that Anna wore for Halloween last year.  I’m pretty sure Anna forgot about it’s existence because she was so excited and enthralled with this costume that it was miserable trying to get [...]

What Do You Want to be When You Grow Up?

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Yesterday our 4 year old twins had a preschool field trip to a local fire department.  The fire department did a really great job at teaching the children about fire safety and added a lot of humor to the whole experience which kept the children really engaged. My husband is a part-time fire department, so [...]