Teacher appreciation week took place in Madeline’s school not too long ago. Maddy and I started brainstorming ideas one day and came up with an idea we loved. A few quick stops at a few stores and we were in business. We used a small basket, a piece of red gingham fabric, red and white paper, and a small piece of wire to attach the sign to the basket. Madeline was in charge of putting the gift together. After all, she benefits from her teachers awesomeness every single day. I just love Madeline’s handwriting. She’s
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Spring has sprung! Hip hip hooray spring is here! Spring is in the air! Actually as I type this there is 4 or 5 inches of snow in the ground and more falling from the sky. More like blowing sideways as it falls from the sky. Alas, this is spring in Colorado. Days of 60 degree weather lead up to a big old snow storm. I’m not complaining though. We need it and honestly spring snow is the prettiest snow. Even though this sort of weather is par for the course in Colorado it doesn’t
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Madeline, Delaney and I hurried home from school pick-up today. Madeline and I were on a mission. We had been planning out a fun craft for the last couple of days and tonight we were going to make it happen. We don’t normally craft on school nights. With dance classes, school functions, dinner, homework, reading, and baths school nights blow by us in what feels like an instant. Tonight was special. I had already had dinner cooking in the slow cooker – a thrown together version of my slow cooker hamburger stew – and the
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Spring is so close. Can you feel it? We still have to make it through the last bits of snow that are sure to come in March and April in Colorado but spring is kind of in the air. So I have spring holidays and spring sights and sounds on the brain. Rainbows and flowers, Saint Patrick’s Day and Easter, rainy days and warm sunshine. I am so ready! The great thing about spring crafts and spring activities is so many of them work for spring in general and a holiday or two also. The
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I love turning cute little kid handprints or footprints into cute little keepsakes. Our Handprint Bats, Fall Handprint Wreaths, Candy Corn Footprint Cards, Ghost Footprint cards and Handprint Four-Leaf Clovers have all been fun ways to record different ages and celebtrate different holidays. Handprint and footprint crafts make perfect gifts for grandparents. I know, all handmade kid crafts make good grandparent gifts but handprints are especially great, because they are especially cute and especially memorable. And now, I’ll stop saying especially. Supplies needed to make “Heart in your Hands” Valentines’s Handprint Cards 1 light colored piece
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It’s pretty well documented that crafting plays a large part of the mother daughter bonding ritual around here. Obviously cooking is the other major bonding time activity. Luke generally does all the active bonging things. Bikes, roller blading, playing at the park. I can’t help it I just enjoy other things. Coloring for hours, crafting, cooking, reading piles of books. Don’t get me wrong I have a bike and I know how to use it but if given the choice I’d much rather raid the bookshelf or the craft closet for something to so than
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We are like every other family at this time of the year. Busy. Busy, busy. busy. November and December fly by and it seems that most of our ideas for holiday traditions for our little family never get started. Next year I say. Next year I will plan ahead and make sure we do that, see this, make these and have those. And so on and so forth. Finally this year I got it together enough to plan out a month-long tradition. Well, really it just might be multiple traditions rolled into one. With the
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Hi I’m Catherine, The Evolving Mommy. I’m so glad you stopped by. I am the lucky mom to one sweet girl, and wife to one sweet guy. The Evolving Family is happily located in Colorado, likes to eat sushi or Indian food whenever possible, and enjoys lazy Saturday hanging around the house when our calendar isn’t overflowing with things to keep us busy. Click here to continue reading!
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