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Hello all- I took some quiet to reflect on recent events, and just when I was about to post: Monkey dumped bubbles on my MacBook. Not good. In the grand scheme of things, it's replaceable. Despite a long time out and a laptop sitting in a sensory bin of rice leftover from Moose's EI days, things aren't looking good. So, all things … [Read more...]
In the early days of this blog, a little table top tree I made back in the winter of 2010 went "viral" on some new fangled site called Pinterest. That made this newbie blogger happy back then. Since that time, my lovely 3 year old child mistook said tree for a "birthday hat", and the tree is no longer with us. That was a long time-out for the … [Read more...]
Hello, dear readers! Here's a few free printables to help organize your Christmas chaos. Just right click, save to your computer, and resize to your liking: For the kids in my family alone, I need two sheets! And, the never-ending to-do list: Hope this helps you this holiday season, Nicolette For more caustic … [Read more...]
As was the case with our epic failure of a gluten-free gingerbread house, the boys were not interested in the process, but rather, the product. And the dough. Monkey was caught at one point escaping to the basement with a ghee-coconut sugar covered beater. Moose managed to shove this little fingers in the dough. The [...]
Given the amount of crap in standard chicken nuggets, I had to recreate my own version that can still please the kids, but isn’t loaded with garbage ingredients like soy lechitin{which is a waste product of the soybean…ew}, oil, and preservatives. My son Moosey went through Chicken Nugget Rehab. It wasn’t pretty. He wouldn’t touch [...]