What hope you had a nice Earth Day yesterday! One of the most important charges we feel as parents is to instill a sense of wonder, curiosity, and respect for nature. Children are so observant innately, so this concept is not hard to teach, if anything  it’s a great reminder for ourselves! To help them point out the beautiful, interesting, and even at times “yucky!” things in their surroundings, we sent them off with Twig Creative’s darling wood cameras. Virtually indestructible, they felt pretty cool getting to tote around their own camera. We just followed a few steps behind so … Read more

  Happy April 1st, everyone! These boys are the biggest jokers around, so we’re going to have a little extra fun with them today! The most foolish part of this tradition is that with young kids, we’re going to be the ones that have to clean up any pranks we pull, so we might just stick to something clean! Plastic toy insects in ice cubes, saran wrap under their sippy cups, sour cream in place of the creamy filling in an Oreo, swapping cereal bags and boxes, dressing up like your spouse (and vice versa) coming out to breakfast. Here … Read more

One awesome resource we definitely don’t take well enough advantage of is the local public library! With music and reading classes for kids and parents, or reading lists of all their books on princesses, trains, dinosaurs, and ballerinas for those especially passionate kids. Special book spine stickers that mark award-winning reads make it easy to find the best of the best, and of course we walk away with a stack of brand-new-to-us books to pour over for the next few weeks. So for our third day #unplugged, head to the library and snag some new reads! To make our latest … Read more

One of our favorite contributors Lindsey Marlor of Pillow Thought put together this darling scavenger hunt just in time for St. Patrick’s Day! She has included the free downloadable sheet of clues, a cheat sheet to keep track of the action, and the final love note at the end. Ready to begin? 01:: Clue #1 takes you to the place you have so much fun! Send them to their room where at the other side of the door Lindsey attached streamers and the second clue! 02:: Clue #2 takes you to a place where you shampoo! 03:: Clue #3 takes … Read more