Kitchen
Toddler Apple Snacks
These fun shapes are a combination of healthy snack and craft – now that my kids are older, they love to cut out the shapes themselves (and then eat them!). Sometimes I just cut one shape out and slip it in with the regular slices when I send a snack along with them, too. It’s [...]
Happy Halloween!
These Halloween party snacks are (sort of) healthy and 100% stress free! Cheesy Bats and Cracker Moons You could also use a witch cookie cutter and then some sort of veggie as a broom (parsley? chives? a thin strip of celery fringed at one end?). Check out my other kid friendly recipes or take a [...]
Kids Macaroni and Cheese
Macaroni Duck Face Funny face made with macaroni and cheese hair and a peach beak. The eyes are zucchini rounds with a dab of ranch and tiny cherry tomatoes out of the garden. The rest of the peach was served in a bowl to share for dessert afterwards. The vegetables are all out of my [...]
Quick Household Tips
Some Tips and Tricks I Use To Defeat The Drudgery Some things I’ve discovered to make the drudgery aspects of parenting and householding bearable. Some of these household tips save time, some are just fun. If you already know about these or they just seem obvious to you, please don’t tell me because I’m particularly [...]
Crafty Toddler Meals: Tuna Boats
Toddler Tuna Melts These tuna boats aren’t the most attractive, but I wanted to share the idea anyways. Boats are english muffins cut in half, covered with tuna salad (toddler version is just tuna, mayo, and a tiny bit of mustard, dill and black pepper). Cover with a thin slice of mozza (I’m too busy [...]
Daily Schedule For Two Kids
I recently updated my Toddler schedule to accommodate a toddler and a preschooler because I went back to school and I wanted to ensure my children’s schedules remained consistent while up to 3 different caregivers took over my daily mama duties. The Freedom of a Daily Routine I get some grief from other parents about [...]
Daily Schedule For Two Kids Part 2
Schedule for Toddlers and Preschool Age Children Evening Schedule Here is part two of the schedule. Click here to see the morning part of the schedule. Check out my Weekly Planner for Childcare if you need a schedule to stick on the fridge with spots for meals, activities, snacks, caregiver name(s), etc. I put a [...]
Crafty Toddler Meals: Irene on Rye
Scrambled Yellow Hair Inspired by one of my favorite Tom Waits‘ songs, ‘The Ghosts of Saturday Night,‘ a song I often think of when I’m in the kitchen up to my elbows in dish soap or mashed banana or that sippy cup full of milk that got lost under the couch for a week and [...]
Funny Kids: Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Cheese Girl Sandwiches For the longest time I thought my daughter was saying cheese grill sandwich, not cheese girl sandwich- until I heard her tell her dad that he could only have cheese boy sandwiches.
Crazy Beautiful Cupcakes
Sometimes I have to remind myself to just let go of the controls and let my little girl make a mess. Here is a reminder of the beauty that can result from complete creative freedom. My little girl decorated these cupcakes on her third birthday and then we took them to a nearby park for [...]
