I found the recipe below on the Whole Foods Market website and decided to try and make it for JDaniel. He loves fruit and yogurt. This recipe calls for honey. I thought JDaniel's allergies might benefit from my making something with local honey.
Fruit and Yogurt Popsicles
Ingredients
1 cup plain yogurt
1 cup fresh or frozen Continue Reading
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 Continue Reading
JDaniel is a pretty good napper in the afternoon. He tends to be a very light sleeper though. Some afternoons the neighbors don’t seem to realize that it is nap time. They start mowing their lawns or trimming trees with chainsaws. The mailperson has to let me know that she has a package for me by banging on the door and ringing the doorbell. The Continue Reading
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 Continue Reading
If you are a mom or dad that has your fundar on you will love the book Eat, Nap, and Play by Robyn Spizman and Evelyn Sacks. What is fundar? The authors define it as unexpected fun. They challenged the readers of this book to plan fun at times and be ready to enjoy it when it spontaneously comes up. The book is loaded with great ideas for all kinds Continue Reading
The theme for the week on the blog is kites. JDaniel had a tin filled with kite theme foods. He had jelly toast in a diamond kite shape, kite string french fries, box kite shaped cheese, shredded turkey to go on the tail of the kite, grapes spools to hold the kite string, and kite string beans.
JDaniel ate everything except the Continue Reading
I used to go through dozens of Ziploc bags for JDaniel and my lunches. It was amazing how many we could consume. Last fall I was really convicted that I needed to cut down on the amount of plastic I was adding to the dump. One way to do that was to use reusable bags or containers. Cottage Belles has the reusable bags in the most fun fabrics. You Continue Reading
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 Continue Reading
We read the following books that relate to Earth Day this week:
My Forever Dress by Harriet Ziefert is a wonderful book about a little girl whose grandmother reuses fabric from her favorite dress to make new clothing for her. In the end, she has to hand down the final dress to a cousin.
Barn Savers by Linda Oatman High is a great book about a Continue Reading
Living here in South Carolina I drive by many restaurants touting they serve the best Southern food ever. Rick Burgess and Bill “Bubba” Bussey in their book Rick and Bubba’s Big Honkin Book of Grub say they have found the best places to eat Southern food and so much more. Some of what they offer is Top Ten Reasons Why There Will Be Potlucks in Continue Reading