We have a nest under the eaves right by our back door, and this morning, a young bird was flapping around in it and looked like it was stuck. We watched for a bit hoping that he would be ok on his own, but then it became obvious that he was truly stuck and was […]
I have not posted anything about inventing in years, but I have been going full force on my therapy games. After bringing out the baby product, Hug ‘n Hold, and spending more money on it than I will ever make on it, I have determined what my criteria are for a product that I am […]
I have just finished my first week of Summer break and I am loving it. I work at a school district, so during the school year I have no time for this personal blog. I see kids and do evaluations for Occupational Therapy, then pick up my kids from school, get homework going, start dinner, […]
I am trying to use the food that we have in the pantry, and we have a lot of apples that need to be eaten. We happened to have some Pillsbury crescent roll dough, so I cut up some apples, added a little sugar, cinnamon, and caramel, and then rolled the apple mix into the […]
For 4th of July, I signed up to bring a dessert to the barbeque. I had seen a couple of desserts on Pinterest that I wanted to try, so I had my daughter pick the one that she thought looked the best. She decided on a dessert that has a chocolate cookie bottom, reese’s peanut […]
I made this little ribbon Christmas tree to have some of my students do in therapy, but It is so cute, I am going to use it in my house too. It is so easy to make, and it is so cute. It is a great activity for kids to do as a Christmas craft. […]
I stocked up on fruit yesterday and have a lot of strawberries and cherries. As I was having my daughter wash and cut some strawberries for lunch, she and a friend were saying how great it would be to fill them with chocolate since they were hollow. I jumped on that idea, and found some […]
I have seen these cake pops around the internet, and they look so cute. I thought that it would be fun to have a holiday party and decorate cake pops. Instead of a cookie party, we would do cake pops. After making them, I’m not sure that I want to have a party around them. […]
When I used to work in an outpatient clinic environment, I used to have the kids make these gingerbread type of houses out of graham crackers. It was a fun, christmasy activity that was good therapy at the same time. It was also out of the ordinary, and the kids loved it. I had my […]
Confetti eggs are one of the most fun and best selling games at the fall festival at my kids’ school. The confetti eggs are regular raw eggs that are emptied, filled with confetti, and the hole is covered with tissue, and then painted. The kids buy the eggs and then break them over each others’ […]
This kitchen table has been around the block a time or two. It started it’s life when my parents got married in the early 1960’s. My mom calls it Danish Modern. It originally had a dark stain on it, and it was a good useable table. When I got married in 1991, the table came […]
Here is a picture of our new pet eating his dinner of baby mouse. It is so cool. I had no idea that you could buy the baby mice frozen. Such convenience.
Ok, I vowed that we would not be getting any more pets. I think that two dogs and two guinea pigs are plenty of work for the average family. I guess that I am now eating my words. We now have a new pet king snake. It is my favorite type of pet though in […]
I have been thinking about these for weeks, since we last went to Disneyland. I am going to give away a little known secret of Disneyland, and I hope that I am not sorry later. There is a little hole in the wall ice cream stand that is off the beaten path and hardly ever […]
I had originally bought this dresser about 5 years ago from Salvation Army. It was just plain wood, and boring. My daughter had needed a bigger dresser and she wanted it to be a painted dresser. At the time she wanted pink. (Now she hates pink). Here it is in it’s pink state. I like […]