My daughters love scrapbooking! So at the beginning of the summer, I went out and bought a bunch of scrapbooking materials for my last Camp Mommy activity. I decided to save the scrapbook materials until the end of the summer because I had an idea. I thought it would be fun to scrapbook all of [...]

We love ice cream! We take it so seriously that we have a family expression, “Never joke about ice cream.” That’s why we were excited when the girls got the opportunity to make homemade ice cream on our recent trip to Vermont. We were just a wee bit more excited when we got to tour [...]

My girls and I love chocolate chip cookies! And while I often bake them from scratch (though I use break and bake cookies equally as often ; ) ) I usually bake chocolate chip cookies in the cooler months so I don’t have to turn the oven on during the day. But today we decided [...]

In honor of the Olympics, my girls participated in the Bug Olympics at the library this week. They had so much fun that I thought the Olympic events they did would be great for playdates or for birthday party games. So let the games begin!

Olympic Birthday Party Games
Flying Flea Standing Long Jump
For this Olympic party [...]

The Olympics are starting soon so I thought it would be fun to do an Olympic theme craft. When considering what to do, I kept coming back to the most recognized Olympic symbol . . . the Olympic rings. The five Olympic rings represent the five major geographical areas in the world: Europe, Asia, Africa, [...]

We just went to a good old fashioned country picnic and had such a good time! Not only did my kids swim in a “watering hole” (a.k.a. icky looking pond I wouldn’t even put my foot in) they caught frogs. When the party host asked “Who wants to have a frog jumping race?” this is [...]