Tyler, TX blogger - parenting, cooking, DIY-ing, crafting, sports, and life with three boys!
If you have spent any amount of time with my family, you know that my kids LOVE sports of any kind. Our house and yard look like the local YMCA on some days. What I love about buying gifts for sports kids is that if they use the basketball or soccer ball you gave them last year as much as my boys do, they will likely need another by the time the next holiday rolls around! My youngest has literally asked for a new soccer ball each and every year View Post
What are some ideas for ornaments for kids to make? One of my fondest memories as a child is making Christmas ornaments. Whether it was at school or at home, there was something so special about making ornaments that I could put on our family tree. My sweet mother even saved most of these ornaments over the years and even though some are quite embarrassing, I do treasure them! It was very popular to make ornaments with pictures and View Post
This post has been sponsored by Tyson Foods. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Air Fryer Sausage Balls for Friendsgiving!Do you know how certain food items from your childhood always bring back great memories? For me, sausage balls were what my mom made for our New Year's Eve party. They were SO good and I would always get a plate with a few sausage balls, some queso, and smoked turkey. Weird combination, right? But trust View Post
Spend any time on Facebook and Instagram and you will see countless memes about tired parents, overworked moms, and things that we should have done or wanted to do, but didn't, because we didn't have enough time. Cleaning our homes is important, yes, but there are ways to streamline this process. Have you ever considered that maybe we are wasting our time cleaning our homes? View Post
This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx.com on behalf of Candlewick Press. All opinions are mine. Reading with DadDad here, guest posting about something I feel passionate about...reading to your kids!Our boys have been lucky to have a steady supply of kids' books to read since they were babies. Sometimes it may seem that having books around is not a good idea, like when our oldest son and his twin cousins raided his book View Post
We bought our first family home this summer and wow, has that been a lot of information to process and things to do! My husband and I bought a home over 10 years ago, before we had kids, but we sold that home when we moved a couple of years later due to a job change. It feels good to call this house our home, but of course it also comes with many new responsibilities. Our insurance company sent us a free Notion starter kit, and after using it for View Post
It is fair season here in Texas! I was able to go to the fair with my 8 year old for a field trip the other day (we did fun educational things, not rides!) and the smell of fair food filled the air. I have always loved the idea of fried Oreos and candy, but really, they leave me feeling pretty gross afterwards. I love air fried foods, so I thought I really needed to create an air fryer fair foods recipe! This recipe for Air Fryer View Post
After working with kids for 20 years of my life, and then having my own, I have discovered something. Sometimes, kids are born with a natural gift of kindness and for others, they need to be taught, but every child could use a lesson in how to be kind to others, both online and offline. I have known quite a few kind souls who, even despite all odds, are kind to everyone. Let me tell you a story of when our middle child went to pre-k.D has View Post
Are you a lover of all things Hallmark? Well, you are going to get excited about this one! Hallmark Publishing has released Wrapped Up In Christmas, a book based on a Hallmark Original Movie. A gift of warmth to heal two hearts… Sarah Smith in Pine Hill, Kentucky has had her heart broken in the past. She pours herself into her work at church and into special projects—like making a quilt for a wounded View Post
Halloween Craft Time: Sparkly Spiderwebs was first published in 2012. Updated in 2019.One day when I was home with my then 3.5 year old, he wanted to do a Halloween craft. I had no idea, so of course, I went looking on Pinterest and found many crafts to make with black paper and white paint. I did not really feel like heading to the store with a 3.5 and 1.5 year old, so I searched for "homemade white paint." I had black paper, but needed View Post
