Valentine Goodie Bags

My boys attend a music class every Saturday morning.

It's more of an introduction to music really... teaching kids the basics of rhythm and keeping time and encouraging them to enjoy music.

It's fun and they always look forward to it!

Every holiday the parents always put together little goodie bags for the kids and I always forget.

I mean always forget.

I sit there with my boys encouraging them to be polite and thank everyone that hands each of them a bag full of goodness (that's right, I collect 2 while giving none... I'm horrible, I know!).

This Valentines Day though, I am prepared!

I can walk in this Saturday morning with my head held high and a huge smile on my face as my boys hand out their goodies!

What's even better is I was able to get everything for our bags for about $4 per bag.

The dollar store is seriously my favourite place these days!

Each bag includes, a note pad for drawing, a pencil with a valentiny eraser, a candy bracelet, candy hearts and a little tub of playdough.

I put everything in a cute little bag and tied it all off with some red ribbon!

Viola!

Now to just remember to bring these babies on Saturday...

Valentine Marshmallows

Way back in mid January one of the blogs I follow posted this post.

It got me thinking and I so wanted to try covering strawberry marshmallows with chocolate!

The only thing is... strawberry flavoured marshmallows have not yet made their way to my part of the world. This little fact left me with only one option...

I had to make my own marshmallows!

They were surprisingly easy actually!!!

I used this recipe, only with frozen field berries instead of fresh strawberries.

Once everything was all set, I dusted a heart shaped cookie cutter with icing sugar and cut out some cute little hearts to dunk in some milk chocolate I had melted and allowed to cool a bit.

Once the chocolate was set we dug in!

They were soooo yummy!

Musical Monday: Frank Sinatra - Funny Valentine

This week I'm going to have a bit of a Valentine's Day theme going on, with a few crafts and/or baking I'm doing in the spirit of the coming day.

So to kick off the festivities, here's a little Frank Sinatra, because really, who's more romantic then Frank??

My Quarrel with Hair Dressers

I have a bit a of a quarrel with hair dressers...

You see, I take in my baby, looking all sweet and shaggy like...

you know... like a baby.

She goes about her business, doing what she has been trained to do and hands me back my baby... grown about 3 years in 5 minutes...

ripping my heart out with every little smile he shines my way thinking how life is moving too fast...

not cool folks... not cool...

Embrace the Camera: Pirates

My boys love pirates.

We spend most of our days pretending to be pirates or cowboys, more often then not though, we are pirates.

We have a love seat that has been deemed "the ship" and while playing pirates we are all required to pile onto the couch and refer to eachother as captain, fish, and discuss the things we happen to see on the starboard side while wearing the proper hats!

Since we spend so much of our time playing pirates I thought it was a good idea to take some pictures, so we can remember all the little details!

Have a balmy day matey!

RV Living

The idea of selling all of ones belongings to move into an RV is oddly inspiring to me.

It's not a lifestyle I think I could handle, as I like my privacy and space a little too much, but I am almost envious of those that can handle it.

I don't know why I feel this way...

The lifestyle doesn't seem particularly glamorous to me, but just so... comfortable...

(picture source & Janssens family blog)

I follow a bunch of blogs, as I'm sure you could have guessed, and one that I check in on every so often posted this post a little over a week ago. It talks about her and her husbands decision to sell their home and move into an RV.

The next day Laura from Violet Bella posted this post and I fell even more in love with the idea of RV living!

It's really amazing to see how different people live and how happy it's possible to be with very little by today's standards...

It really makes you think about how much we really need vs. how much we actually have.

Like I said before, not a lifestyle I think I could handle, but it's just such fun to imagine!

If you were moving into an RV what items could you simply not live without?

Zac's Boo-Boo's

This little man is pretty accident prone.

It stresses me.

See that little mark under the left side of his mouth? He was outside with his daddy, doing manly things in the garage, slipped when leaving the garage and fell on his face. Thank goodness the outside was only a tiny scrape! Inside however was a bit of a mess. He had a big gash running from his lip, just inside all the way down to the base of his gum line. It's healing quickly though, but still not nice.

Today he was playing on the kitchen floor and we noticed blood on the floor. Looking at Zac's feet, he somehow managed to take a chunk out of his middle toe, just under the nail...

Thank goodness for bandaids!

They fix things almost as good as a hug and hold from mommy!!