We are on a roll with the top five lists lately, so here are the top five ways to help your kids keep their cool on these hot summer days.
1. Hydrate
Offer healthy beverages often, especially water. Offer ice water to help them enjoy it, but know that ice cold water is not [...]
What is a busy bag? A busy bag is quite simply activities in a bag for little ones.
Why do I need a busy bag? Let me count the reasons:
1. road trips
2. church services
3. school programs
4. homework time
5. family reunions with no cousins (let’s hope not)
And you get the idea…sitting still or just being quiet can [...]
Cloth diapering can seem like a gianormous undertaking, but I’m here to say that you can do it. The following is my recipe for success in the storage and laundering of cloth baby diapers. So, here goes….and you CAN do it!
Storage of Cloth Diapers
Sealing baby diapers of any kind up tightly in a [...]
One thing I discovered along the path to cloth diapers is that buying disposable swim diapers does not work with the budget! We have always tried to use cloth swim diapers since they are so easily reusable (just being in the pool keeps them fairly clean!)
We used cloth swim diapers that pull up over the [...]
First of all, I’ll just come right out and say that I do use disposable diapers- a lot of them in the past seven years, in fact. For me, a newborn’s constant runny diapers- added to massive sleep deprivation- means Pampers all the way. However, as a stay-at-home mom on a tight budget, I have [...]
