Mama Dani's Musings

Friday, August 12, 2011

Flutter By Friday 8-12: Come Link-up!!

Welcome to this week’s Flutter By Friday blog hop!
The reason:
For readers to find other neat blogs to read and follow.
For bloggers to find readers/followers.

Here’s what to do:

Use the linky at the bottom of this post to post up to 2 posts per link-up.
Come back and see what other bloggers have been linked to.
Comment on a post you like.
Follow a new blog.
Come back next week to do it again!

I’ll randomly pick a link from this week’s blog hop to feature in next week’s blog hop!

Please take a moment and check out this week’s featured blog:
La Familia Aissa
I'd also appreciate if you placed this blog hop button on your blog.

This linky will end Sunday evening.

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Will you vote for me?

By Best All-Around Mom Blog

My blog is in the running for Best All-Around Mom Blog over on parents.com. I'd really appreciate it if all my readers would take a moment and vote for me. Just click on the badge at the top of this post or on the right hand side of the page and click on the vote button (you will need to sign up for an account on parents.com). Voting goes until October 12, 2011.
Thanks!!

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Project 52: Week 32

Maddy is not afraid to get dirty. Actually, she's drawn to it. Digging in the dirt:

This week, Sean got introduced to the Sunday comics:

Monday, August 8, 2011

Kids Meal: Kabobs

I decided to do something a little different today.

Bread (their initial), Ham, Pineapple, Cheese,
Turkey, Cheese, Oranges, Bread (their age)

Idea from this pin/this blog.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Weekend Recipe: Trail Mix

I have a tendency for my blood sugar to drop (hypoglycemia) and it's worse when I'm pregnant. So, when I'm pregnant, I try harder to eat well and to eat often to avoid problems. Healthy snacks are not as easy as meals, especially if you're looking to keep your budget under control. Today I decided to make some trail mix that I could munch on between meals.

I didn't use specific quantities of these ingredients. I just eye balled it.

Dried blueberries
Almonds
Walnuts
Granola
Chocolate chips (dark chocolate would have been best but I went with semisweet)

Saturday, August 6, 2011

School Days: Astronauts and Space Travel

Our final week on outer space was spent learning about astronauts and space travel. We checked out the video The Big Space Shuttle along with a lot of books from the library. For our project, I wasn't sure what we were going to do until I was drinking a soda and thought that the small soda bottle kinda looked like a space shuttle. So I saved a few.

Hot glue guns are great but I like the kids to do as much of the project as possible. I thought back to a blog post from Teacher Tom awhile back and decided to try something. While the 2 year olds (Maddy and Aiden) slept, Sean helped my with the hot glue gun parts.

First he had to learn to use the hot glue gun.