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We’re Christine and Jaymi, two salty mamas with seven kids between us. We’re happy to be your virtual mom squad!
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It never fails- I’ve had a long day. I’ve had a million things on my plate, a million tasks to accomplish, and too many things to keep track of. I’m downright exhausted, and all I want to do is fall into my bed and spend the next eight hours in blissful, unconscious rest.
So why can’t I turn my brain off and fall asleep?
If you suffer from anxiety, this experience is far too familiar for your liking. We are exhausted, but our poorly wired brains won’t give it a rest so that we can GET some rest. One thought spirals into the next, and before you know it you’re agonizing about that comment you made to Sharon three days ago and if she’ll hate you forever because of it.
No? Just me?
At any rate, if you have difficulty falling asleep because your thoughts just won’t quit, we want you to know that you’re not alone. We’ve been there (you know, only like, every night or so). And as a result, we’ve come up with some fool-proof strategies to help you shut down your brain and fall asleep fast.
Got antsy kids, and need an activity that will take up some time? Check out this Frozen Toys Ice Challenge for kids! It’s low prep, high fun, and encourages kids to test out the scientific process. It’s an easy STEM preschool activity your kids (and YOU!) will love.
Do you ever find yourself with a block of time with your kids that you’ve just GOT to fill somehow? Maybe you need to prep dinner, or you’ve used up all your screen time for the day, or they’re just driving you nuts and need a little more structure. Whatever, the scenario, you need an activity to fill some time, and you’re willing to try ANYTHING.
And so it was that this Frozen Toys Ice Challenge was born.
Around 2 p.m., it became abundantly clear that A.) my two year old was not going to take a nap, so B.) he would go to bed early, and thus C.) our family walk that takes up the last hour of the day was clearly NOT going to happen. So what in the world would I do with Lila?
We’ve been obsessed with ice lately (read about the time we painted it here!) and so I decided that I would trap some of her favorite toys inside a block of ice. On this day, The Incredibles 2 was just about to come out, so we went with a Frozone theme.
It’s SUPER simple, but this frozen toys ice challenge is lots of fun. Grab a few plastic figurines ad let’s get started!
Parenting is hard. And sometimes, curveballs come flying at us that make it just that much harder. One of those curveballs comes twice a year (unless you live in Arizona you lucky ducks) and that is the dreaded time change. Here are some tips to surviving the time change with kids. Arguably one of the…
I was a late bloomer in the cleaning-bathrooms department. I did have bathroom cleaning lessons, but they didn’t come at what I consider an appropriate age- say, between the ages of 8 and 16, for example. Nope.
Two days before my wedding, in a hot panic, I desperately asked my mom to show me how to clean a bathroom. How I had avoided it until then is a complete mystery, but it was one of those life skills I was pretty sure I was supposed to have, but failed to, pick up along the way.
Presumably, you learned how to quickly clean a bathroom somewhere along the way. It is rarely anyone’s favorite household task, but it is one that you’ll certainly notice if it hasn’t been completed in a while. It’s a proverbially dirty job, but somebody’s gotta do it. Spoiler alert: that person is you.
So if you’re trying to find out how to make cleaning a bathroom easier, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve come a long way since those wedding-week-lessons, and I’ve finally figured out how to get a sparkling clean bathroom.
Are our bathroom cleaning hacks goign to make cleaning bathrooms go away? No. But they WILL make cleaning your bathroom easier. And frankly, that’s about all we can hope for in the toilet-scrubbing department, am I right?
