is a BBC site filled with kid friendly recipes, activities,crafts & more to educate & entertain young children (up to age 6 or 7). Along with games, stories, printables & songs there is a radio station & an area to "watch & Learn". At CBeebies your children will not only be introduced to lots of fun, new characters......





....but will also find many of the favorites here too....Clifford, Bob the Builder, Pinkie Dinkie Doo, Jakers, Lazy Town & Charlie & Lola.

Encourage your child to try new foods & learn basic kitchen skills with a plethora of fun, kid friendly food...
******the recipes are in the "Make & Do" catagory.



Send your child a personal birthday video
(it's free...just add their name).
Kids love mail (..ummm..email).

This site isn't just for the kiddies....there is a grown-up chat area, information on creative & mathematical development, literacy & language and special needs.

Check them out and be sure to sign up for the newsletter.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CBeebies

Read Your Way Around the World

Go beyond the chain bookstores & broaden your children's horizons with a bounty of books from around the globe without ever leaving the comforts of home. The "International Children's Digital Library" is a free site containing 3,600 books from 60 countries & in 48 languages.

What's that?...your child can't read Croation?....
No problem. Many of the books have been translated. You can pick your preferred language, view in original language or just flip through & look at the illustrations.

Finding the perfect book couldn't be easier. The categories are quite extensive..age, length of story, genre, picture books or chapter, happy or sad, plays, comics or all books with blue covers.

Registration is not required however membership allows you to create a reading list and saves the page so you can read at your leisure.
Get each of your children their own "Virtual Library Card" with no worries of lost books becoming overdue.

just checking in

Just adding a quick post to keep account active. Figuring out my new iMAC & keeping busy with "the girls" have put me more than a little behind.Lots to post and little time. I will add more to all my blogs soon.

Please stay tuned!

The Moral of the Story is. . . .

I hope I have that type of chutzpah when I'm elderly.

clipped from www.funny.com

Like Mother Like daughter

Beanz and Bou come from a long line of stylish women...



...........Auntie Lis......&.....Mama Baby.......




...................Gran'mare was ~HOT~

(actually...reallly, really hot...I sweated like a pig in that costume)

Help-Wanted Ad for Nanny: 'My Kids Are a Pain'

Saturday, August 30, 2008

NEW YORK — It was an unusually honest ad for a live-in nanny, a 1,000-word tome beginning, 'My kids are a pain.' But it worked, attracting a brave soul who's never been a nanny before.

'If you cannot multitask, or communicate without being passive aggressive, don't even bother replying,' Rebecca Land Soodak, a mother of four on Manhattan's Upper East Side, wrote Aug. 19 in her advertisement on Craigslist.

'I can be a tad difficult to work for. I'm loud, pushy and while I used to think we paid well, I am no longer sure.'

This being the age of instant communications, the ad took on a life of its own, making the rounds of parenting blogs and e-mail inboxes and inspiring an article in Thursday's New York Times.

Soodak, a 40-year-old painter whose husband owns a wine store, eventually hired Christina Wynn, a 25-year-old University of Virginia graduate, to take care of Rubin, 12; Ellis, 9; and Shay and Cassie, both 6.

'I made a commitment to stay in the job for at least a year,' Wynn told the Times. 'I met the oldest"

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Puppy Love

Boogie Fever

"The Girls" were so fascinated with nostrils at one point that
we had to don protective gear.

Such gifted children

It was quite apparent at an early age that Beans & Boo were talented well beyond their years..

There's nothing like a good book to help you relax

A Heartbreaking Goodbye

With a profound sadness and a heavy, heavy heart, we had to say good bye to our beloved ol' beagle Snoop...Snoopy..a.k.a. noodle (I've no idea why...he was just..."my noodle") and sometimes I called him porkchop...Portly Porkchop.

He entered our lives when he was 5 years old and we enjoyed his company for the past 7 years. He was strong, healthy & quite content except for a bladder problem the past few months (which bothered me a lot more than it bothered him). He suffered what appeared to be a very sudden blood clot and was in some pain for a bit before rapidly loosing all feeling & mobility in his hind quarters. There was nothing more that could be done ( we tried against the odds with some injections). My husband & I sat with him, I held him in my lap & we fed him a bagful of k-bits. It was gut wrenching. I wish he had lost his senses but he knew us. We kissed him as he drifted off to sleep. We let him keep his dignity. He took a piece of our hearts.

..............Love'ya Noodle....................

What's in Your Pillows?

Time to buy diapers.

No, not for "The Girls"

For me.

Now that they're two.....

Things happen

When I pee.




They were laying down for their nap.

There was a tiny tear in the pillow.

I couldn't wait any longer.

They're laying so still.
I'll just be a minute....

There was a tiny tear in the pillow.