This Mother’s Day show mom how much you care with these fun and unique DIY Mother’s Day craft ideas! It’s that time of year when we get to celebrate all the moms in our lives. Let’s show mom how much we love her with a personalized gift made just for her. These are gifts and…
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Mother’s Day Craft Ideas – Fun Things to Make For Your Mom!
Easy Print & Cut Stickers on a Cricut!
Learn how to make easy stickers you can print then cut by hand or on a Cricut! When I was a child, I adored stickers. If I could have, I’d have had a giant collection of stickers! The only thing holding me back from my dreams of stickers everywhere was the price. Stickers were (and…
DIY Milestone Blanket for Baby (& How to Layer Iron-On Vinyl)
Learn how to make a DIY milestone blanket for your baby with iron-on vinyl! I show you how to easily layer iron-on vinyl for fun designs, too! With the advent of social media, many new moms enjoy sharing photos of their growing babies each month. I totally missed out on this as my daughter was…
How to Get Organized at Home
Learn how to get organized at home from the experts with free organizing ideas, strategies, and tips! I think being organized is one of the best feelings in the world. But I know it’s hard to go from disorganized to organized — it can be just SO overwhelming. We all need a little help now…
Work-at-Home Mom: Eight Tricks That Save My Sanity
I’ve been working from home since 1993. When my child was born in 2004, I just kept on working. Well… more or less. Sometimes definitely less. I remember that first month after she was born, when I hadn’t met my yearly PassPorter book deadline. I’d had complications from childbirth and ended up back in the…
Doing the Thing I Think I Cannot: A brief update on me
I want to update my friends on me and my life. It’s long overdue. My life is amazing. I have been gifted with a wonderfully bright, creative, and loving child who fills my days with joy, noise, questions, inventions, and wonder. She’s truly a treasure and I am so thankful to have her. She brightens…
Rubber Duck Cupcakes: How to Make These Cute Treats This Spring
My 10-year-old LOVES to cook and bake. This weekend she decided to celebrate the arrival of spring with these cute duck cupcakes. It all began with the shopping list she wrote out for me… 1 box of Lemon cake mix 2 cans of vanilla frosting (1 can + 1/3 of the other can is separated…
My 9-Year-Old Asked a Startlingly Deep Question The Other Day
My child tends to ask random questions at bedtime. I figure it’s because we’re not distracted by other things and everything has quieted down. The other day, as she was climbing into bed, she said, “Mom, when I get bored sometimes, I don’t understand why I am alive. What is my purpose in life? What…
Why I Teach My Child to Cook
“Mom, can I make pancakes?” is the question I’ve heard as I blearily walked down the stairs each morning for the last three days. This weekend, my daughter finally mastered the complete process of making pancakes from start to finish without any help, and she’s so proud she can do this on her own now….