Kids and What I Learned Today- Taking a Moment
Today, I swear all I wanted to do was sit on the back porch and read a book. I haven’t read a book for entertainment in 5 months (I’ve read ...
Posts Tagged ‘kids’
Announcing my Free Ebook!!! Teaching kids how to draw
I got into blogging because I love to share ideas and I love it when someone actually does something that I’ve posted (I will literally clap my hands and squeal). ...
I Am One Proud Mom
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve experienced an overwhelming since of pride in my daughter’s artistic ability. Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud of both of my kids, they ...
Simple Christmas Sweet Rolls
These were so simple. All you need is a can of the Pillsbury Orange Sweet Rolls. Unroll them and twist, cook per the directions for about 8 minutes. Done!
I Hate Goodie Bags!
My rant: I hate making them, I hate receiving them – whoever started making Goodie Bags should’ve been shunned rather than copied. I just picture that it started from some ...
Semi-homemade Halloween Nursery Rhyme {Silhouette Template}
Do you need a Last Minute Halloween Costume or non-spooky Costume? The night before a school parade I found out that Tyler needed a costume of his favorite nursery rhyme, ...
My First Encounter with the Alpha Mom
This soccer season my Hubby volunteered to be a Coach. When he first told me over the phone he was calling me from his “Man Conference” in Orlando. My first ...
12 Whys in 2 Minutes
I’m about two minutes behind Em and LilMan’s activities. As I’m trying to catchup, I’m walking from upstairs to downstairs, moving from room to room, asking myself: Why is the ...
Kids and What I Learned Today
Every major event in our child’s life is a big deal for us parents, we take pictures, make scrapbooks, blog – do everything we can to document these moments. ...
Decorating Pillows – Embellish with Ribbons
Last weekend Em made another pillow from with a bowl of ribbon and stuff that I had made or collected that I hadn’t found a use for just yet. She ...
Kids and What I Learned Today
It’s the simple pleasures that kids love and they love for us to show/share with them. Tyler is staying with Grandma and Grandpa this week while he is between summer ...
Decorating Pillows – Make Them Sparkle!
Em got into my craft room and found a bowl of ribbons, sparkly things, just stuff I didn’t quite know what to do with yet but definitely wasn’t ready to ...
Huntsville Botanical Gardens – Great for Kids!
We live in Huntsville, AL and have for the past 4 years. It’s a quiet city with the highest number of PhDs than anywhere else in the US (NASA, Boeing ...
Silhouette Stenciled T-Shirts
On a hot afternoon, over a 100 degrees, we stayed inside and made some t-shirts. During the kids naps, I made a couple of stencils on my Silhouette Cameo machine: ...
Kids and What I Learned Today
Chocolate Milk rules! LilMan was introduced to chocolate milk when he was about a year and a half. Em, when she was about a year. Ever since, it has been ...
Kids and What I Learned Today
The day started off early for a Saturday morning, 6:30am at a cabin by the lake (we had hoped the kids would sleep in since we kept them up 2 ...
Kids and what I learned today
I started out the car trip with such high hopes, such enthusiasm, after all I had a great and productive day. I was able to work with a fellow project ...
Teacher’s Gift – Scrapbook Gift Tags
This week my little boy graduates from Pre-K. His school actually had the graduation at the Huntsville Botanical Gardens! This was way better than my Grad School Graduation! I’ve been ...
Photographing Children
Recently I went to Blissdom (a conference for Bloggers) and pretty much went to every Photography session that I could and what I learned is one of those things that ...
Easter at Cedar Hill Farm
I love coming to my in-laws house! It’s a mini-vacation!:) We always do something fun, the in-laws always watch and spoil the kids, giving Ben and I time to ourselves. ...
Easter Came a Little Early
The kids got a preview of the Easter to come this year thanks to Hershey who were at Blissdom. The kids were ecstatic to have bubble wrap (they didn’t quite ...
Get Kids to Eat Veggies – Ratatouille
Recently I went to a blogger conference where I did a video for Birds Eye Veggies where I was asked How do I get my kids to eat their veggies? ...
Coughing at Night? – Rest Easy
Guess what time the kids get sick, fever hits or wake up coughing. Always, ALWAYS, between 1 and 5 am! Fever we can handle with Tylenol or Motrin’s help. Throwing ...
Silhouette Toilet Fun
We recently changed out our kids toilet from a little Gerber Peewee Children’s toilet and I had to make it more fun for them and address a little problem that ...
Tonight we could’ve lost it all.
Tonight we could’ve lost it all, had it not been for God and a non-toxic cleaner. Tonight I came home from a little shopping and found Ben pretty upset – ...
Hey I'm Stephanie of Grinning Like An Idiot. Grinning Like An Idiot is me whenever I do something that makes me happy, whether it is sewing, painting, vacationing, a funny interaction, just life in general. 
