Xmas crafts

We made our Trader Joes gingerbread house on Xmas eve. After taking pictures we let them eat it. Why do gingerbread houses look better then they taste? The kids didnt gorge themselves too much and still had an appetite once it was time for the big meal. Win Win.





We made this Santa beard advent calendar with cotton balls. I had a hard time doing it each day. But it paid off when the kids wernt fighting to put the one cotton ball on, and instead we had 3 or four. whoops.I have to admit its pretty cute.




- Kim

These hands are full

I've been busy. Very busy. My 2 year old daughter loves to find trouble (so does her mom).
It's hard to complete any project for fear of one of the following happening [again].

Warning don't look if you are eating your breakfast.

DIY Angry Birds for toddlers

A few alphabet blocks +  a couple weeble wobbles = Angry birds for toddlers. Free and Fun!








It can't get much simpler then that.
- Kim

Chocolate milk... Good til the last drop

Don't you hate it when you can't squeeze that last bit of chocolate syrup out? What a tease. Now you have no worries. Beware, what you are about to see may change your life...






Simply pour the milk into the syrup bottle. Shake it up and enjoy.






What do you think?

- Kim

If You Give a Mom a Muffin

If you give a mom a muffin,

She'll want a cup of coffee to go with it.

She pour herself some.

The coffee will get spilled by her three year old.

She'll wipe it up.

Wiping the floor, she will find some dirty socks.

She'll remember she has to do some laundry.

When she puts the laundry in the washer,

She'll trip over some snow boots and bump into the freezer.

Bumping into the freezer will remind her she has to plan supper for tonight.

She will get out a pound of hamburger.

She'll look for her cookbook. (101 Things To Make With a Pound of Hamburger.)

The cookbook is sitting under a pile of mail.

She will see the phone bill which is due tomorrow.

She will look for the checkbook.

The checkbook is in her purse that is being dumped out by her two year old.

She'll smell something funny.

She'll change the two year old.

While she is changing the two year old the phone will ring. (Of course!)

Her five year old will answer it and hang up.

She remembers that she wants to phone a friend to come over for coffee on Friday.

Thinking of coffee will remind her that she was going to have a cup.

She will pour herself some.

And chances are,

If she has a cup of coffee,

Her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.






Written by Kathy Fictorie


Based on _If you give a mouse a cookie_ by Laura Numeroff