A place to share some mom adventures & fulfill my wish to help kids fall in love with reading!
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Day 30 – May 10, 2015
Day 29 – May 9, 2015
If you’re reading this, I know you’re a parent, and if you’re a parent I know you’re just as crazy-busy as I am. Most of the time I find myself caught up with just keeping up! Life with little ones is not easy. Usually I can be seen with some version of large tote bag/diaper bag hanging from my neck, water bottle in one hand and half-eaten banana in the other while the girls attack the playground. Regardless of how hard it is, I know that these hectic everyday moments really do matter! Days like this are an important part of the fabric of our family life. I’ve realized that thinking like this allows me to start to feel more joy. It truly does. I am so very lucky, grateful and joyous to have my daughters. Yes, I feel stressed, I feel pressured, I feel pushed and pulled, but if I can remind myself to embrace the craziness and just step right into it, I can actually feel the joy too!
Let me be honest, it often takes a nudge from someone outside my inner circle to remind me to think like this. I forget that it’s important to insert myself into the moment. That instead of creating and fostering moments for just them, I could consciously create moments for us together. And that’s what I love so much about Sprout’s #MomIsHere initiative. It’s the nudge I needed!
Continue reading ➞ The challenge to find joy in everyday moments!
Spring has sprung and seeing colorful flowers in bloom make me so happy! I happened to have plenty of tissue paper and pipe cleaners on hand, so why not make our very own bright, colorful flowers?
It’s really quite easy and there are steps that my daughter’s nimble little fingers can do as well. These flowers can be used as decorations for anything from a birthday party to a backyard BBQ. The pipe cleaners make it easy to attach them almost anywhere. I wanted to make my plain white flowers a little more cheerful for our Spring celebration so we sprayed them with a light mist of liquid watercolors. (I ordered mine here. Easy to wash off and clean up!!) If you don’t have liquid watercolor I’m sure a bit of water with a few drops of food coloring would work as well. Just be sure to use a spray bottle with a fine mist so that you don’t wet the delicate paper too much! If you do have colorful tissue paper, then have fun with layering different colors colors together. Each flower will be beautifully unique!
Step 1: Gather your supplies – 6 sheets of tissue paper per flower (cut your rectangular sheets into squares), pipe cleaners (I used green so that we could have green stems), safety scissors
Step 2: Stack the 6 sheets of tissue paper neatly and fold one side over about 1″. Turn the stack over and fold back the same width. Continue until it’s all folded up like a fan
Michele Lepe 
