Marble Painting

I had seen marble painting mentioned in a couple of different blogs and kids craft magazines, and was really looking forward to trying it out with the boys. Since it was a nice sunny day, and the boys were itching to do a project, we decided to head outside for some painting fun in the sun. Using the backyard instead of the kitchen was a nice change of scenery, and it really kept me from worrying too much about the potential mess.

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Muffin Tin Monday

We've been slacking on our crafting and art projects these past couple of weeks since I was frantically trying to get everything ready for the garage sale that we held this past weekend. We're ready to get back in gear though! This weekend we're headed up to visit Great Grandpa for his birthday, so expect some kid-friendly birthday and Mother's Day gift ideas later this week!

For this week there was no theme for Muffin Tin Monday, so basically it became "Whatever Mommy Can Quickly Throw Together for Her Impatient and Increasingly Hungry Children" lol.




We had string cheese, star shaped kiwi (and the slices that they came from), bagels with cream cheese, pretzels, strawberries and star shaped bologna. The hit of this week was the star shaped bologna! Honestly, the whole idea of bologna repulses me, and I'm not sure how or why kids seem to love it, but mine certainly do!

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