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How to Make Homemade Playdough

How to make your own home made play dough: First things first. You will need: 2 cups floor 1 cup salt 4 tsp cream of tartar 2 cups water 3 tbsp vegetable oil Put dry ingredients in a big mixing bowl and slowly add the…

Get Your Child to Read Over Summer

Get Your Child to Read Over Summer

As I’m planning out a summer vacation chock full of camps and family trips, I realize I need to incorporate learning time for my daughter. School gets out mid-June for us, starts up again around the first week of September. That’s an awfully long haul…

Make Kid-Friendly Slime

Easy Paper Heart Garland for Valentine’s Day

Easy Paper Heart Garland for Valentine’s Day

Need a super easy heart garland for Valentine’s Day? This one takes about 10 minutes and is great for kids. There is no glue involved and you most likely already have everything you need at home to make one.  All you need for this super easy…

Horse Cork Ornament DIY

Horse Cork Ornament DIY

Have you ever found yourself with a surplus of wine corks, multiplying mysteriously in your kitchen? I know I have! Instead of letting them pile up, why not turn them into a charming little wine cork horse ornament?

My Husband Burnt the Beans

My Husband Burnt the Beans

Halloween Costumes

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Rarotonga, Cook Islands – The Perfect Vacation.

Rarotonga, Cook Islands – The Perfect Vacation.

Real life and bills get in the way of travel. If I had unlimited resources, I would be traveling most of the year. I’m in the process of moving travel stories over here to this neck of the BoredMom woods, but if you want to…

Lice Outbreaks at School

Lice Outbreaks at School

Apple Clove Pomander for Fall

A pomander is simply a fruit, like an apple or orange, embedded with whole cloves. It’s a throw-back from the Victorian era when no one washed (ew, right?) and scented fruit was welcomed to off-set the stink of unwashed humans. Bathing in the middle ages…


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