Food: My New Obsession

{I have a few projects in the works which I am excited to soon share. With three children, I find I do not get things done with my children as quickly as I used to. It seems like every time I sit down with my two older children, the little one needs some attention!}

For the past several months, I have been fully engulfed in researching what we eat and health care products. I have a lot of thoughts on the state of our food. It has been a process and journey for us; however, I can say with certainty I have never felt as good as I do now. Even with a nursing child, I feel well rested, full of energy, and now weigh just a few lbs short of what I was in high school (less than my pre-pregnancy weight!). I want to shout from the rooftops what I have learned. If you are interested, I have started documenting our journey on our family blog. I have called it our Food and Body Revolution (FBR).

I have written three posts so far:

Our Food and Body Revolution

FBR: How I Lost 15 lbs in 5 Weeks

FBR: Snacks

Family blog: www.beckyandcurtis.com

Happy Wednesday!

Daily Fun List

I, by nature, am not an organized person. I like flexibility, and I have a love affair with lists. With that in mind, I created a Daily Fun List that I hang up on my refrigerator. This list helps me to have a list of different activities that I can reference to each day when I need a quick activity. Some days have more activities than others due to preschool and other times we are out of the house.

Monday: puzzles, read, computer games (PBS kids, ABC Mouse, etc.)

Tuesday: play-doh, craft, practice writing, read, music

Wednesday: coloring, read, legos

Thursday: games, blocks, practice writing, read, trains, music

Friday: painting, read, stickers, Mr. Potato Head

*** I have a few dry erase books that helps my children with writing.

*** For reading, my children have a Leap Pad device that reads out loud to them. I also believe there are online sites that offers these services.

Just this morning, I decided I am going to include some formal preschool/kindergarten activities in each day. I hope to share many of these activities as we complete them. As you can see, I'm not the greatest blogger!!! I am not going to make these formal activities difficult for me, but rather something fun and easy. 

Monday: math

Tuesday: reading

Wednesday: science

Thursday: social studies

Friday: writing

What are some fun activities you do?

The Reason For My Absence!

Skils I Want To Learn

My husband listens to a podcast that recommends learning a skill once a month and I thought I wanted to jump on board. While I don't have 12 skills to learn because I am giving myself a little break since I will be producing a baby shortly, I do have quite a few I want to learn or perfect. I made myself this little printable so I can check each skill off as I learn and master. 

So hopefully at the end of 2013, each of these skills will be checked off. I also plan on involving my children. In fact, Logan has jumped on board and we have started to recyle this week.

What skills would you like to learn this year?

Snowmen Cake Pops and Balloons: Repost

This winter and Christmas season we have been taking it very easy waiting for this little baby to come, just a little bit longer! I wanted to share some fun cake pops and balloon snowmen we made last year. The kids loved to make them and our snowmen stayed around for quite awhile.

Snowman Cake Pops

The faces could have been a lot cuter, but I just used what was on hand! I stacked three chocolate cake balls onto a stick and covered  all three balls in candy melts at the same time. Be a bit gentle, the cake balls can get a bit too heavy, break, and fall off. I only had blue candy melts but loved the color covered in the white sprinkles. Next time, when I have more supplies and time, I will make the faces a bit more endearing.

During our evening "snow" would randomly fall down upon us. "Snow" was in the form of marshmallows that I threw up in the air. The kids LOVED it and thought it was hilarious!

For our fun activity, we made...

Balloon Snowman

These turned out even better than I imagined. Besides the white balloons, I used materials I had on hand. My husband bought these awesome hats in New York City, I was so sad when my children grew out of them last year, but now we have a Logan and Hannah Snowmen that can wear them! For adhesive, I used crafting glue and glue dots. We also used some clear tape to tape the balloons together. I did tie two balloon ends together and then had to glue the bottom balloon to the top two.

A few materials we used:

Eyes and nose- buttons

Mouth and arms- pipe cleaners

Scarfs- fabric scraps

Other fun materials- rafia, marshmallows, chocolate chips, popcorn kernels, silly string, and sticks.

I would love to read your fun "winter" activities! I'm always on the lookout for new ideas!