June 2011

My Favorite Homemade Teacher’s Gift

by MARIA on June 28, 2011

I did one of these paper lunchbag book teacher gifts last year, for my son’s grade one teacher. I wish I could claim the idea as my own but I cannot – I found this fab idea here. This year, I decided to make one for my four year old daughter’s JK teacher, who will [...]

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Hilarious Artwork By The 4 Year Old a.k.a. Future Blackmail

by MARIA on June 28, 2011

My adorable four year old is sick right now – feverish and miserable one moment, clammy and cuddly the next. She’s also wicked moody. Yesterday afternoon, while frying her little brain on some random cartoon, she saw a commercial for some kid website. She came running at me in the kitchen, begging me to find [...]

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Potty Training is NOT for Sissies

by MARIA on June 27, 2011

I can say without a doubt, that potty training was one of the hardest things about parenting. I hated every moment. As a self-proclaimed, proud germophobe, trying to get the kids out of diapers was a bit of a struggle. Of course, the fact that the kids didn’t care either way, didn’t make it easy [...]

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Word(less) Wednesday – The Four Year Old Artist Strikes Again

by MARIA on June 23, 2011

The four year old decided to draw my parents (her YiaYia and Pappou) from memory, using her DSi. This is what she came up with. Her PAPPOU: This is eerily accurate I might add. And her YIAYA: Notice the beehive and the handbag? That is my mom personified. Love the way children think and perceive [...]

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Journal Junkie

by MARIA on June 20, 2011

I’m a total journal addict. I can’t stop myself. Well, I can, but I don’t want to. If my husband asks, tell him it’s therapeutic or something. They are all over the house, and most of them are untouched. I actually find it very difficult to use the pretty journals – yes, I’m a weirdo. [...]

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Cube Dog – Clever Review Series

by MARIA on June 10, 2011

Thank you to Cube Dog for sponsoring this review. For more information about Cube Dog please visit the Facebook page or download it on iTunes. Let me introduce you to the cutest, no need to clean up after him, my kind of dog, the digital dog – CUBE DOG! I love my iPhone 4 for many reasons, [...]

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Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer – Giveaway! – CLOSED

by MARIA on June 9, 2011

Last month I blogged about the new movie Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer movie (based on the Judy Moody books!) which had a really cute, exclusive clip attached to it – I’ve added it below so you can check it out if you like. To celebrate the opening of the movie tomorrow, June [...]

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Siblings – Love and Rivalry

by MARIA on June 8, 2011

Look at these little sweeties. I made them. I am aces at creating humans. Clearly. But, I cannot lie – the little people confuse me. They operate on two spectrums – love and fight. When they’re in each other’s good books, they can play for HOURS, they laugh, they giggle, they are a dream. When [...]

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Addicted to Pinterest

by MARIA on June 7, 2011

Pinterest is the best thing since Twitter. I love it. I avoided joining it for a while because there is so much stuff to keep up on online as is, that I figured it was just one more thing to drive me mad, trying to keep up. And then I joined, and fell in love. [...]

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Nineteen Percent And Girls Don’t Rule The World

by MARIA on June 3, 2011

I saw this vlog the other day on the Blogher website, and with the title, “Get Real Beyonce, Girls Don’t Rule The World”, I had to watch it. FYI: I find Beyonce painfully painful. Watch this video where vlogger, Nineteen Percent, tells it like it is. About ten seconds in, you’ll realize she is wicked [...]