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The Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway Really Captivates

May 2, 2011

(Originally published 12/16/08.) We recently spent an afternoon at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. If you haven’t been there, it is a fabulous hands-on museum and my children loved it. (I could go on and on, but that’s not the point of this post.) In one of the interactive areas for the younger children they [...]

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Our Earth Day and Easter {Scott Naturals Giveaway 3}

April 25, 2011

Well our Earth Day plans of taking a bike ride to the park and collecting trash along the way were derailed by several straight days of down pouring rain. We were lucky enough that the day before Easter there was a break in the bad weather and we were able to head to a local [...]

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Let Them Eat Cupcakes!

April 22, 2011

Don’t we deserve a special treat for all the hard work we do? A little indulgence from time to time? I was recently excited to try out a cupcake that I had only heard about from friends in large cities and after tasting it was a little let down. (The company was very nice and [...]

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No Screen Week {Scott Naturals Giveaway 2!}

April 19, 2011

My kids don’t have a ton of screen time each day and I am sure that their total time in front of the tube is less than the national average. But this week my daughter’s school participated in the “no screen time week” challenge. This was much to my daughter’s dismay. After school the kids [...]

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Coloring Easter Eggs

April 18, 2011

It’s that time of year…time to dye Easter eggs! Every year we reach for the PAAS eggs coloring kits and have good results. I let the kids use crayons to write and draw on the eggs before dropping them into the cups of colored water. I like to write on a few and surprise the [...]

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Get Outside! {Scott Naturals Giveaway}

April 12, 2011

I recently took a four day business trip and I thought for sure my kids would be begging for my return. Well, it turns out that while Mommy is away, the family will play! On the weekend my husband took my kids to their favorite park across town that has a giant wooden structure that [...]

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Thomas & Friends Live on Stage: Thomas Saves the Day

April 11, 2011

The last time Thomas came to town, we took our children to see Thomas & Friends Live on Stage: A Circus Comes to Town. When the lights dimmed, the music began playing, and the familiar characters from Thomas & Friends appeared on stage, our son was entranced. I looked over to him when Thomas made [...]

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