Mini Marshmallow Shooters

How fun are these?

I found these awsome Mini Marshmallow Shooters on one of my favoriate blogs and decided to make them with the kids.

They are really simple to make and the kids had a blast playing with them :)

What you need:

12 inchs- 1/2" PVC pipe

1- cap

1- T-joint

2- elbows

(all to fit 1/2" of course)

Cut the PVC pipe into:

2- 3 inch pieces

3- 2 inch pieces

Here's how you assemble it:

Have fun :)

5 more min please!

I'm sure all mothers at one point have told their kids "5 more minutes please!" My kids have a good bedtime routine "shoes, pants, potty, drink, teeth" (our saying before bed to make sure everything is covered) Then off to bed for school the next morning. However they like to get up right as the sun rises :-) It took me a little while of trying to figure out a fun and creative way to make sure they, and I, got enough rest. I bought a clock and took the face of, then I colored from 5-7 RED and from 7-9 GREEN. I put little star stickers on the hour hand and put it all back together. I then told my children when the hour hand with the star stickers is in the red you cant get out of bed. I gave my children options of: laying there and resting, reading a book or playing with a small toy, BUT you can not wake up your siblings. When the star hand is in the green you may get out of bed and play softly until mommy comes to get you ready for school (my kids are old enough to play in their rooms by themselves but if you have younger ones you can change the rules:-) So far it has worked like a charm and I get a few more uninterrupted minutes in the morning. Plus the kids seem to be less cranky!

Kids can have fun cleaning to...

So I was going through all of our winter stuff getting it ready and found I had a couple single gloves and socks that had lost their other half...so sad. So I decided to make a craft out of them with the kids (what they didnt know was that it would make cleaning fun) So what we did was each kid picked which glove/sock they wanted and then decorated them however they wanted. The boys made their gloves into spiders and Miss A made hers into a sock puppet. After we glued everything on they put them to work. I showed them that they could pretned they were spiders/puppets going around eating up all the dust. They were actually bickering over who was going to clean what. Needless to say my house is now dusted and I didnt have a single complaint.


What you will need to make your magic cleaning helper:


Glove or sock
Google eyes
Hot glue gun
Other fun goodies to decorate with
Then let them have at it :) Help them glue their stuff on. My kids are to young to use the hot glue gun so I had them place the stuff where they wanted it and then I glues them on. Then let them try them on....

Now it's time to put them work. I put Miss A's on and showed them. I started dancing around and dusting and at that point they were begging me to stop (Im not sure if they wanted me to stop cuz of my dancing or they wanted to get started lol) They had a blast dusting and acting silly and my house is now dust free.

A dress for Aria

I made this cute dress for Aria and thought I would share it. I went shopping for material and my mom came back with this mound of material and Aria picked out her own for me to make her a dress :-) So here it is...

Baby Niche

So im new to blogging but thought I would try it out....
Today was a very productive day for me. I woke feeling a little OCD and cluttered so I decided the remedy that. I got to work on my kids room which havnt been touched upon since moving in. Rediculous I know :-) I gutted the room and vacumed every square inch. I got everything put back and beds made. Fin.....now all I have to do is go through the avalanch of toys that are in boxes but at least they can play in their room now.

Once I got the kids to sleep, in their newly cleaned room, I was feeling a little sentimental and for some reason started going through my kids baby books. It was so nice going down memory lane and re living all the great first words and new adventures. Every now and then I get a niche that I want another baby....I know don't say it....and people always try to make excuses like "why would you want to change diapers again?" and "not getting any sleep." When it comes down to it though it's all worth it!! No matter how may diapers I changed, no matter how many times I got peed on or thrown up on it's all worth the first time they say Mommy and I love you. I already don't get sleep, i've been living on adrenaline for 7 years now so why not 1 more.....
My husband however would never agree to such a thing but never the less the niche is still and will always be there.