Dinker and Giggles

You hear the complaints everyday from different people about how busy their lives are with work and after school activities. They never have any family time together because everybody is just so B-U-S-Y. Rather than falling into the category of the “busy family who does not talk to each other,” simply take 30 minutes a [...]

Many of you know how much I love cloth products. From cloth diapers, unpaper towels, and yes even cloth feminine pads. They are all wonderful and help us to save money and reduce waste on this planet. I wanted to share with you a recent press release from one of the organizations on the front [...]

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Teaching your kids to draw doesn’t have to be time consuming. In fact, even if you don’t know how to draw very well- you can actually learn while helping them gain the skills! What should be the first steps in instructing our kids in their artistic abilities? Teach them to learn to see their surroundings with [...]

As we hit the one week mark to the USA holiday of Thanksgiving it has started to stir some emotions in me that I really wasn’t expecting. Perhaps it was because of the recent and sudden struggles of a woman that I don’t even know. Perhaps it has been the thoughts and worries of the [...]

I’m so thankful I have the husband that I do. Letting me take time away from the family so that I can just ‘be’. He’s always there for me. Now matter how crazy I get from PPD (post pardum depression) or just from spending eight hours with very tired and cranky kids – he’s always [...]

The other night we decided to go totally unhealthy and expose ourselves to all kinds of germs. Okay so we really didn’t decide that but it did end up happening. Dinner at the ‘Golden Arches’ wasn’t exactly what I had in mind but they do have some killer indoor, might I add enclosed, play areas. The [...]

Birthday parties – the celebration of life and a great excuse to get some new toys or clothes. Then later in life it’s a reason to throw, well, reason out the window and drink yourself to the porcelain thrown. I have lots of home videos of my childhood birthdays. I don’t remember any of them [...]