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I've been racking my brain to try to decide what Ashton could do as valentines for his classmates. I was completely stumped. I knew that I didn't really want to do that same-old paper valentines from the store. Here lately, I'm starting to realize that he won't always be so little....he won't always want to do crafty thing with me, so I...

In our house - both kids birthdays are literally back to back. And, right after Christmas. So it's become a struggle over the years to make their birthdays feel slightly seperate and special. In all honesty, after all the hustle and bussle of Christmas....I'm tired! I don't feel like doing any more planning, cooking, baking, decorating....

Yesterday, I'm kind of milling around - getting the kitchen cabinets reorganized and realized that we have a empty oatmeal container sitting in there. (That annoys me to no end!!) So I'm starting to throw it in the recycle bin when I start to wonder what I could do/make from it. I looked around online for awhile to try to get ideas of what...

We love having pizza nights at our house! The problem with pizza night is the cost of ordering pizza....we easily spend $30 - that's ONE dinner. That's craziness. That's why we make our own pizza's around here. On some nights we'll make up just one big pizza and other nights everyone will get their own pizza to top however they want (kids...

I know I'm way behind the game here - but I've only recently discovered the beauty of Pottery Barn Kids. I love to go in that store and browse around and touch everything. This is seriously some of the cutest stuff. Ever. My kids love going there too, I know they are imaging what they'd like their rooms to look like!Here are some freaking...

My oldest son, Ashton takes his lunch to school. I've found that it's much, much cheaper then buying him school lunches everyday and after reading about all the fat, sodium and preservatives in school lunches - I thought this would be much healthier for him.The problem of course with packing lunches everyday is offering variety....