Do you love the smell of fresh bread? And the tenderness and flavor of bread just out of the oven?
Unfortunately, I am not much of a bread baker.
Fortunately, the book Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day answered just about every question I have about making bread. And yes, you really can bake bread in [...]
I am always looking for good wholesome family entertainment. With a barrage of junk out there, even those supposedly kid-friendly shows, I am very careful.
When I saw Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, it met with my approval. (Click on the image to watch the trailer.)
When my children were little, we read the book with [...]
I don’t do a lot of product reviews unless it’s
something really good.
Here is one that is really good, and you have a chance to win one too!
Billy Fun Wheels would make a great Christmas gift for children 2 years old and up. Well, the truth is, both my 14-year-old daughter and I had fun [...]
Have you had to make a move with your children?
As a real estate professional for over 20 years, I’ve had the pleasure of seeing families excited about moving into their own home. But I’ve also seen children not so excited.
It’s a big change for children, and unknown territory can be intimidating.
Elena’s Big Move, a children’s [...]
If you’re cheap environmentally conscious like me, you reuse plastic water bottles to refill with filtered water at home. Although it seems like a good idea, now they tell us we need to be concern about the Bisphenol A (BPA) and DEHP, these harmful chemicals that can leach through into the water we drink.
And those [...]
Teenagers have all kinds of questions from acne and periods to makeup and mood swings.
The Ultimate Girls’ Guide to Understanding and Caring for Your Body by Isabel and Emily Lluch is a fun and easy-to-read book written for girls to address many sensitive issues. Two sisters wrote the book to give their peer perspective on [...]
I’m rather health conscious when it comes to snacks. We don’t eat chips or cookies or candy. Hot dogs and donuts are 2 main culprits I keep out of my house (but I admit, they taste good and we splurge once a year!)
Now I just discovered pistachios as a healthy snack with lots of nutritional [...]
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We know that kids say and do the darnedest things. Phillip Done has captured them from his years of experience as a 3rd grade teacher in his book 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny – Life Lessons from Teaching.
If you’ve ever wondered how in the world a teacher survives 6 hours a day, 5 [...]
It is true that swaddling your baby helps them sleep better.
When I had my babies, the hospital nurse taught me to wrap my babies tightly in a receiving blanket. (I kept one of those hospital blankets for memories!) When the baby is nice and snug, he feels secure and warm, just like in your womb [...]
The cheapest bottled drinking water is Kirkland Costco brand for about 20 cents a bottle. You run through 10 bottles of those a day for a family and that’s over $700 a year…just for water!
Every drop of water in that bottle counts, I tell my kids. Don’t spill it, don’t wash your hands with it, [...]
Summer is a great time to catch up on reading, both for yourself and for your children. The libraries and bookstores are nicely air-conditioned, and the seats are comfortable!
What types of books do you like to read?
I just finished reading Fairy Foals with my daughter. In fact, we read it rather slowly because each page [...]
