Feeling a Little Salty? You’re Not Alone!
We’re Christine and Jaymi, two salty mamas with seven kids between us. We’re happy to be your virtual mom squad!
With lazy-mom approved kids activities, snarky playdate chatter, and little ways to make your life more fun, we’re here to make your momlife a little sweeter.
Even when you’re feeling salty.
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Looking for a way to earn a little extra money this holiday season? Check out this easy-as-pie side hustle that will help you earn money for shopping online. You should check out Ebates, our favorite shop-online app. And we’ve got great tips to help you earn more money on Ebates, too.
It’s that time of year again, folks- that’s right, it’s the happiest time of the year! Welcome to ONLINE SHOPPING SEASON! Remember the days when you had to schlep from store to store, children in tow, as you hiked and searched and ran price comparisons and did the returns and exchanges and oh-crap-I-forgot-Aunt-Rose? Nope. Us Either. We’ve been doing our holiday shopping online for YEARS. Not only can it be done while you are trapped under a sleeping baby, but you don’t have to buckle and unbuckle 1 million carseat straps in the process. And best of all- it can earn you money. So if you’re looking for an easy holiday side hustle, your solution may be as close as your next online shopping trip.
Whether you’ve got a road trip coming up or just need to find a way to keep your kiddos entertained for more than a hot minute, you’re going to love this all in one travel activity bag. The best bag to use (and the best goodies to fill it with!) to keep toddlers and preschoolers entertained on the go.
I’m borderline obsessed with making busy bags for kids. The Dollar Tree, Daiso, and the Target Bullseye Playground are all practically begging me to make more busy bags every time I go near them.
But the more I made, the more I ran into a problem- what busy bag storage system contains all this goodness? I’d love to use the busy bags for travel, but I needed an easy way to store and transport them.
I don’t know about you, but there are TONS of times when I could benefit from having my stash of busy bags with me. Like when the doctor is running behind, or when we’ve got a long flight, or on one of our ten hour road trips.
Or when my husband sends me and my two children to stand in line for a few hours at a Best Buy for a video game system at 6 am on fifteen minutes notice.
No? Is that one just me?
Well at any rate, I finally found a way to set up a travel activity bag that can come with us- and it didn’t take a whole lot of additional time or effort.
I don’t always feel like a super mom, but this fully-stocked, always-so-ready-it-lives-in-the-trunk Travel Activity Bag is a major source of pride for me.
And the best part? You can have your own busy bag storage system in place before you know it, too.
Once upon a time, I was a fully functioning adult. I could remember all sorts of things without a thousand reminders. I never rarely lost my car keys, stored non-refrigerator things in the refrigerator (I’m looking at you TV remote), or forgot how to drive to my house.
Then I got pregnant. And had kids. And never slept. And Mommy brain took over and ruined me. So I owe a few people my sincerest apologies.
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Dear Friends,
Making Time to Be Creative (If You’re Into That Sort of Thing)
Let’s preface this one by saying- you don’t HAVE to be creative just because you’re a mama. Your parties don’t have to have carefully paper-crafted banners. Your kids’ sandwiches can be sandwich-shaped, your kids water cups don’t have to be personalized with vinyl, you don’t have to make your own home décor, and you CERTAINLY don’t have to sew your daughter thematic skirts for every holiday.
Repeat-you don’t HAVE to.
But some of us? Some of us WANT to.
It’s the time of year – where everyone decides to be grateful and share one thing a day for which they give thanks. And yes, we’re thankful for our health and our kids and our husbands. But let’s face it, there is a whole world of very specific things moms are thankful for.
Sometimes, it’s hard to see the “big picture” when you’re in the middle of yet another load of laundry (and six missing socks). Which makes it even more important for moms to find the little things in life that make them smile.
And while we could go on and on about the tiny joys that make our lives exciting, we’ve narrowed it down to our top thirty things moms are thankful for (well, these two moms, anyways).
