When it comes to the holidays I am always asked for frugal ideas, and those I have plenty of. One of my favorite frugal gift ideas is in fact a book box. My boys never had the same hunger for reading as I did, when I was young, and it used to make me sad. [...]
Whether your child’s bike need a handlebar fix, or the stroller handlebar has been worn by use, there is an easy fix. I absolutely love my Teutonia Mistral stroller, but after seven years and two kids the rubber handlebar wrap recently began breaking, and I needed a quick, affordable and easy fix that would last. My first reaction [...]
I took my kids to a local egg hunt this weekend, and the kids had a blast. The only problem was that we did not have any Easter baskets, but we set out to make our own homemade Easter baskets. We had lots of ideas, and we ended up trying three different things. First we [...]
My four-year-old son wants to be a shark scientist. He knows how to spell shark, and he knows more about sharks than I do, and I sure have read a lot of books about sharks because of his fascination. When he announced a while ago that he wanted to be a shark for Halloween, I [...]
This weekend I was in a bind, as my boys had been invited to a last-minute birthday party. We had run out of birthday wrapping paper, so we decided to make cheap wrapping paper ourselves. I had a few different ideas, but the one that hit jackpot with my beach loving boys was surfer wrapping [...]
There are only two weeks left of the Free Family Film Festival at Regal Movies and $1 Summer Movie Camp AMC Theaters, so if you have not taken your little ones yet this is the time to do it. Today and tomorrow our local Regal is showing Charlottes’s Web and Monsters vs. Aliens at 10 [...]
In March I was able to find a fantastic bargain at JoAnns, huge sewing baskets for $0.97 each. I picked one up for myself and one for my three-year-old niece. She is the only one I have to buy pink for, as I have three boys. Since she will be coming to visit this Tuesday, [...]
