Lasso the Moon • Life is a Gift
Before researching parent control apps use these tips to ensure your kids are making good choices online. The author of Screen Time Sanity: The Crazy Easy Guide To Doing Technology With Your Kids shares three questions for parents of teens to consider. *This post contains affiliate links. . . . We’ve all heard the stories about the trouble kids are getting… Read More
Are you bored of your normal salad routine too? Check out this great salad pairing guide below. . . . When the warm summer weather hits, I begin craving salad. After a while though, I finds myself eating the same combinations over and over again. Sometimes we get stuck in our patterns, which is why I’m loving this handy salad pairing… Read More
Winter is coming. Eddard Stark would urge you to plant bulbs this weekend. Winter days are long and dark, my friends. Plant bulbs now and enjoy the beautiful bounty this spring. Today I am honored to have my good friend Phil Friso-Reinke talk about ten beautiful varieties of allium that will thrive in the Midwest. Be sure to check… Read More
If you get flower garden burnout mid-summer, this zen approach to creating a beautiful oasis is for you. Thank you to my good friend Phil Friso-Reinke for sharing photos and inspiration from his personal “chaos garden” with us today. Be sure to check out the playful gardeners’ gift guide I’ve created at the end of the post, too! Zina The… Read More
Be prepared for that “Oh Shoot, I Need a Kid’s Birthday Gift Now” moment… Do you have birthday party burnout? Now don’t get me wrong, everybody loves to celebrate, but when our girls started elementary school it seemed like we had birthday parties scheduled every other weekend. Running errands and fitting in a gift buying can be exhausting. Below are… Read More
This adorable flower suncatcher is brought to you by Jean of The Artful Parent. Yesterday, my kids and I made nature suncatchers with flower petals and leaves. This is by no means the first time we’ve done this flower suncatcher craft—it’s one of our favorites!—but this time, instead of just abstract designs or mandalas, we also shaped the flower petals… Read More
These beautiful Florida Everglades photos and post are brought to you by Little Moments. “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” -John Muir There is a zoo that holds many memories from my childhood. It was filled with exotic animals that do not typically live in the part of the world I grew up in. That… Read More
This travel guest post is by the lovely Aimee Chan, founder of suitcasesandstrollers.com. “Me” time = No kids time. Right? Normally in my day-to-day life, this holds true. I find rejuvenation from those small breaks away from the children: a 10 minute coffee in a café before the supermarket shopping. An entire episode of a television show watched uninterrupted, stolen… Read More
This water balloon painting art activity is brought to you by Jean of The Artful Parent. Kids love water balloons. Surely we can just state this as a fact, right? Up there with we all need plenty of hugs, sleep and chocolate? My two girls and their friends go through crazy amounts of water balloons during the warm weather months…. Read More
This Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Clusters is the perfect family snack or handmade gift for the holidays. Nom. Nom. Nom. A big thank you to Jessica for sharing this family-favorite with us today! We’ve got sweets on the brain. During the holiday season (and over Valentine’s Day) our family comes together to whip up some favorite treats in the kitchen…. Read More
Today we are honored to have Andrea Folsom from Crafting Connections sharing her thoughts with us. ~Zina Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. -e.e. cummings Creativity is a funny thing. It can at times rise, swell, encompass all that I do and think, feel and craft…. Read More
Most people will probably associate hearts with Valentine’s Day — not Thanksgiving — but stick with us on this one. We are honored to have contributor Katie from Live Craft Eat sharing a new Thanksgiving activity for kids and families. The “A Thankful Heart” project is sure to be an ongoing family tradition. My husband and I have lived far away from our… Read More
*Today we are honored to have Erica of What Do We Do All Day? sharing a helpful parenting story. Enjoy! There are few things more disheartening than hearing your child cry, “I don’t believe you!” with disappointment in his eyes because of a promise you failed to keep. Sadly, this is exactly what occurred with my 8-year-old son. I had… Read More
Autumn is here and leaves are falling all around us. While your children are jumping in the leaf piles and throwing them by armfuls in they air, can they tell that there is a difference between them? Do they take the time to observe the color, shape, size, and other identifying characteristics of each one? After reading a book by… Read More
Autumn is around the corner. This week we celebrate the season with Jessica from All She Cooks. Check out seven of her favorite fall recipes below, including Carrot Pancakes. Can’t you imagine them with Martha Stewart’s Cream Cheese Glaze on top?!? Nom Nom Nom What’s for breakfast today? I love make-ahead breakfast ideas because we are normally swamped in the… Read More
Today we are honored to have Alison Butler of The Petit Cadeau posting and sharing this thoughtful gift idea. Mothers. How do you express eternal gratitude to someone on one day of the year? It seems sort of insignificant, doesn’t it? The older I get, the more I struggle with gift ideas for my mother. Yet, I know that, for… Read More