Getting Up Close to a Flower Garden
Wordless Wednesday- Mom Loves a Boy Who Does Housework
Please check out the three giveaways I have ending tomorrow. They all have low numbers. They are all for wonderful prizes.
Great Posts I Came Across This Week- May 1st
Each week I travel around the internet visiting blogs. Here are a few posts that I loved, learned from, or gave me great ideas:
Child Related Posts:
Quirky Momma has post on a great learning tool called a Learning to Read with a Cootie Catcher. I am dying to make one.
Mama Jenn has post of Colored Rice. I see colored rice in sensory container posts all the time. She has the recipe to make colored rice in this post.
Life and Helping
Penelope’s Oasis has a great post on How To Plant Your Garden Of Life. I like her peas of mind and squash indifference.
Fifth Sister has an amazing poem filled with “O” words called Ordeal. It is awesome.
Great Recipes
Confessions of a Homeschooler has a wonderful recipe for Fruit Salsa and Cinnamon Tortilla Chips.
The Young’ns have a great recipe for Homemade Corn Dog Mini Muffins. It looks and sounds great.
Opportunities for Bloggers
Domestic Dork is participating in a walk for MS. She will make a blog signature for a $10 donation to her walk.
Our Mommyhood has a great list of memes for moms.
Hooray! Mom Loop Community on BlogFrog Officially Launches Today!
Mom Loop is officially celebrating the opening of its fantastic community on BlogFrog today! I am so excited to be a part of it with Rachel from Quirky Momma, Liz from A Belle, A Bean and A Chicago Dog, Nicole from Activity Mom, and Shannon from Milk and Cuddles. I love to visit each of these ladies blogs and look forward to hearing what they have to say on a variety of topics on Mom Loop.
If you haven’t been on BlogFrog to check out the communities on it, you are in for a treat. There are a wide variety of blogs that have strong and thriving communities where you can post questions, read answers from others on a wide variety of topics. Some topics are serious and others are just fun. When JDaniel first had allergy symptoms this spring, I spent time on several BlogFrog communities finding out from others how they had handled allergies at their house.
You may have been to each of the blogs I listed above. If you haven’t had a chance to yet, please visit the links I have place below to a great blog post on each site. While you are there look for giveaways and other treats they may have set out to celebrate the launch of Mom Loop.
Here are wonderful posts from the other Mom Loop Moms:
Activity Mom has a great post called Buttons, Buttons, Buttons.
A Belle, A Bean, and a Chicago Dog has a post called Mommy Maneuvers that will make you laugh, cry, and make you think about going to the bathroom.
Milk and Cuddles will show you in a cool video: How do you find a good foundation that matches your skin tone?
Quirky Momma will help you Make Your Own Moon Sand – Aka Moldable Mess! in her latest post.
I would love it if you would join us on the official opening on Mom Loop today.
The Living Life to the Fullest, Cottage Ladies Reusable Lunch/Snack Bags, and Eat, Nap, and Play Giveaways on this site have ways to gain extra entries by joining Mom Loop.
Mom Loop is planning to give away 10 free premium Blog Frog memberships to the people most active in the community during the month of May!
Great Posts I Came Across This Week- April 24
Each week I travel around the internet visiting blogs. Here are a few posts that I loved, learned from, or gave me great ideas:
Child Related Posts
Superheroes and Princesses have a great play-doh craft for Earth Day.
The Home Teacher has great sets of Movement Cards. These can be used in zillions of ways.
Other Posts I Loved:
The Blessing of Modern Domestication has a great post on Celebrating Motherhood.
Great Posts I Came Across This Week- April 17
This week I have spent a lot of time visiting blogs participating in the Ultimate Blog Party hosted by 5 Minutes for Mom. I have been amazed and in awe of the wonderful blogs that I visited. This week I want to share some of them and a taste of the posts.
Bushel and a Peck wrote a special piece about the wonderful man she married called I’m Not Sure What’s Better.
Quirky Momma has 40+ Tips for Road Trips with Toddlers/Pre-schoolers. I need to use many of them when JDaniel go to my sister’s in New York next month.
Helping Little Hands has an amazing picture of Hungry Caterpillar cupcakes!
Layton Family Joy has a thoughtful post on Split Second Decisions. God gives you opportunities. Do I take them? Sometimes I do and sometimes I let them slip by.
Mozi Esme has amazing crafts to do with each letter of the alphabet. I started by looking at the “A” crafts.
Recipes I need to try:
Crystal’s Cozy Kitchen has a wonderful Chicken Soup Pizza.
My Family My Forever has Homemade Cinnamon Rolls that look awesome.
Other posts I found that I loved this week:
Barbara’s Bakin N Bits has a great post on 88 Words or Phrases That I was Surprised to Find in the KJV. Who knew “A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME” was in there.
Great Posts I Came Across This Week- April 10
Each week I travel around the internet visiting blogs. Here are a few posts that I loved, learned from, or gave me great ideas:
Here are some child-related posts:
Chasing Marcus has a Tot School post on eggs that is really fun. I love her fly swatter activity. I would love her peg game.
I love Southern Savers. She saves me a lot of money at the grocery store. This week she posted about a fun game online on How Wheat Works that is worth checking out.
Little Llamas! is one of my new favorite sites. I love her Easter- Palooza. She did such wonderful Easter activities with her children. I really like the bread as the empty tomb activity.
Moments of Mommyhood made the cutest chick footprint as part of her Friday Book Project Ducklings Love post. I wish I wasn’t afraid to paint JDaniel’s feet.
Recipes I need to try:
justJenn has a great cupcake recipe for Whipped Cream Cupcakes.
Homemaking Helper has great recipes for leftover eggs on her Hard-Boiled Egg Recipes post. The stuffed cheese rolls look wonderful.
Posts I just loved:
Jenny Matlock posted a wonderful piece called On Easter Our Youngest Grand Sat On My Lap. I love her Alphabe- Thursday too.
Great Posts I Came Across This Week- April 3
Each week I travel around the internet visiting blogs. Here are a few posts that I loved, learned from, or gave me great ideas:
Here are some child-related posts:
Picky Apple has a great way to paint using a salad spinner in her Tot School post this week.
Teach Mama has a post on What You Need From Your Local Yard Sales. It includes a cheat sheet in a PDF you can take with you to yard sales.
Little Hands, Big Work has Fun Sidewalk Games. I really like the circle game.
Counting Coconuts has an Easter sensory tub that I would love to have made for JDaniel.
Fun Easter Post:
Dawns Daily Life has really funny Easter comics on a post called Easter Humor and Joy. The chocolate bunny ones are my favorite.
Muffin Tin Muffin- Blue and Purple Foods
JDaniel and I had fun tracking down blue and purple foods. BiLo had purple cauliflower on special this week and we found the purple potatoes from Peru at Whole Foods.
His tin contained blue tortilla chips, blueberries, purple potatoes (They are boiled in the picture above. I later mashed them.), meatloaf (non-purple meatloaf), a blueberry muffin and a little of the purple cauliflower. I was shocked when he asked for more potatoes and cauliflower. I wasn’t shocked that he wanted more of the muffin.
A Wee Little Man Came Visiting
A little man came to visit my house weeks ago and has been waiting for JDaniel and me to show him the town. Flat Stanley came with the snow in the middle of February and due to a lot of things happening in my family he sat quietly and waited for us to work on his project.
On Friday JDaniel and I took him to down to Greenville to see the Liberty Bridge and Falls Park. We all stayed dry and really enjoyed checking out the bridge and the falls.
Can you tell I let JDaniel do most of the coloring?
We still have something things to do for him before he heads home to New Hampshire, but at least he got to see some of our town.
