The other day when we were learning about primary and secondary colors and having a grand time with our colored ice cubes I got busy cleaning our kitchen afterwards. I saw that I had a box of baking soda out still from our volcano in a bottle activity and wondered to myself if you could freeze vinegar? Combining these two activities of freezing liquids and using baking soda...hmmmm, I just wondered! Turns out you can freeze vinegar and it freezes really well! (mental note to self!) I dumped a little baking soda into our flat plastic bowls (the ones I use when we batter fish) and grabbed our tray of vinegar from the freezer. This was a great activity for my kids as they love the feel of the bubbles that vinegar and baking soda make. They kept adding more and more vinegar ice cubes to the baking soda to create more and more bubbles. I am pretty sure they played with the whole thing for well over an hour. … [Read more...]
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Energy Bites
So healthy!! And SO easy! And SO yummy! 1 cup (dry) oatmeal 1/2 cup chocolate chips 1/2 cup peanut butter or use a seed butter 1/3 cup honey 1 tsp. vanilla Mix ingredients together in a large bowl. Scoop into bite sized balls (I used a small cookie dough scoop). Refrigerate (or even freeze) to set them up and then enjoy! My kids begged me to make more the minute they were gone! … [Read more...]
Playdough of the Month–Edible Peanut Butter
I'm SUPER excited to share something with you, our lovely readers....every month we're going to be sharing a Playdough of the Month! It will be different every month so be sure to keep close tabs on us! If you have anything you'd like to see us create let me know and we will give it a try. This month: Edible Peanut Butter Playdough All you need is: 1 cup creamy peanut butter 1/2 cup honey 2 1/3 cups powdered sugar Mix all ingredients in a bowl (tip: use a mixer if you have one it will cut your mixing time down to mere seconds). When all ingredients are well incorporated then your playdough will be ready to use. No baking required! Mykids love this playdough because it tastes really good and it works just as well as store-bought playdough. Just keep close eyes on them or they will end up with a belly ache as they will try to eat the whole lot of it! … [Read more...]
Cottonelle® #LetsTalkBums #ad
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Cottonelle. Let's talk WHAT? Yes, today we're talking bums (bottoms, rumps, back-sides, ba-dunk-a-dunks, tooshies, whatever you want to call them). You might be thinking this should be one of our After Hours posts but rest assured, we're not going to go that crazy! Cottonelle® is already one of our favorite brands of toilet paper. It's super soft to wipe with. Now they've come up with something even better...Cottonelle® Flushable Cleansing Cloths. In combination with their toilet paper, they make the Cottonelle® Clean Routine. I'll admit, I was bit skeptical about trying wet cloths on my bum. After all, isn't soft toilet paper enough? Aren't wet wipes for babies or kids who are potty training? I don't want to walk around with a wet bum after wiping! Au contraire mon frère, cleansing cloths are perfect for adults too! (Yes, suddenly I'm talking French while discussing my bum! Huh? I guess it's because the French … [Read more...]
11 Reasons We Shop At Cub® + Win $4500 Gift Card! #Spon
If you haven't figured it out already, we are happy to be Cub® Foods Ambassadors. We chose to be their ambassadors because we actually love shopping there. Cub® is both me and Lindsi's preferred grocery store despite living next to other ones. Here's 11 reasons why we shop at Cub®: Kid's carts. The photo to the right is obviously a few years old but it goes to show you that my girls have loved them since they could first walk! Free cookies, apples, or bananas. That's right, we ALWAYS take advantage of getting the girls a free snack while shopping! Coupons. Cub® has awesome coupon savings on top of their store sales and everyday low prices. They often have buy-one/get-one on meat which saves us a TON of money. $5 off. We subscribe to their mailing list and frequently get $5 off $50 or more (one coupon to use now and one to use later!). Things are always in stock. Mega sale item? No problem. Cub® makes sure that they always have it in stock. Variety. Cub® … [Read more...]
Our 15 Seconds of Fame
"Oh my gosh! I saw you on TV!" "I saw you in the Bethenny commercial...!" "Was that you in the Bethenny commercial I saw?" Those are the words Lindsi and I heard ALL weekend. Friends blew up our texts, phones, and Facebook messages telling us we were in a commercial for Bethenny's new talk show! Unfortunately, it took FOREVER for Lindsi and me to see it. We searched high and low online and couldn't find it...we watched TV (a little too much) to see if it would come on...it was SO frustrating! Until...I set my DVR to pretty much continuously record the TV in the morning. I FINALLY saw it! I then re-winded it and recorded it on my phone so I could share it. Here's our 15 seconds of fame: [embedplusvideo height="253" width="450" editlink="http://bit.ly/14HdCjS" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/yxceA0KVM8U?fs=1&hd=1" vars="ytid=yxceA0KVM8U&width=450&height=253&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=" id="ep8730" /] Did you see us? Hint: … [Read more...]
