Green Summer Entertaining

Living in the mitten state, if you’re anything like me, means spending months on end fantasizing about summer.  Summer is the perfect time of year to get together with friends and family and enjoy the beautiful weather.  Our family loves to be outside around the pool.  When entertaining there is always a long list of …

Time is Money

Our time is very valuable.  Some of us work, some of us are working to get the kids to their activities and back and forth to school, some of us are going to school and some of us are doing all of the above.  Life is busy and when we find something that will give …

Re-Decorating My Son’s Bedroom – Finally!

My son will be eight years old soon. His bedroom is a non-descript place that has had only a few minor changes since he came home from the hospital to set-up camp. The crib has been replaced with a full size bed and there was an addition of a homemade train table, but other than …

Rainbow St. Patrick’s Day Ideas

St. Patrick’s Day is coming up soon!  Here are a few rainbow treat and craft ideas that are sure to spark some inspiration! My mom use to make rainbow jello for me when I was a kid and when I found these treats at Glorious Treats I thought they’s be perfect! What a fun treat …

Protecting Your Kids from Inappropriate Videos

  Have your kids ever asked to use your ipad to watch videos and then asked you, “Mommy, does Dora do drugs?” or some other shocking question? Did you shockingly respond, “You are never allowed to watch videos on the iPad again.” Instead of having to worry about the videos your child is watching while …

Family Night at Buddy’s Pizza

Last Saturday night we headed over to the Buddy’s Pizza in Rochester Hills for dinner.  The restaurant was all dressed up for the holidays and looking really good. We hadn’t been out for pizza in quite a while and we were all looking forward to our night out.   Since it was a Saturday night …