Taking Better Pictures of Your Kids in Flower Fields

With all the rain we have been having one of the benefits is all the fields of beautiful wild flowers. It is a wonderful Austin tradition to go out and get pictures of your kids in a bluebonnet field. Here are a few tips to help you get the best pictures possible. 1. It is [...]

Silk flower hair clips

It’s been a while since I’ve done something crafty with my daughter.  About a month ago at the farmer’s market, a teenager was selling her handmade silk flower hair clips, and to support a local, budding artisan, we purchased one of these flower clips for our daughter.  She wanted us to buy one for every [...]

Inertia

A couple of days ago, my kid would not stop asking me why the word stop has the letter “p” in it, and he totally meant it in that existential sort of way.  I mean, really?  How am I supposed to answer that with any degree of satisfaction?  My two year old is deep in [...]

Crummy chair to funky chair

This dilapidated antique chair made me stop literally in my tracks. I was at a furniture consignment store, and there this was, hiding behind a thick layer of dust and frayed cloth. Heart! Nobody puts Baby in the corner. A quick bit of haggling, and this beater chair was coming home with me. The kids [...]

That’s not snot!

WIth all the sick, boogery kids around and this being Halloween week, I thought it would be a great time to make some fake snot with the kids.  My kindergartener and I had this long conversation about mucus which is how this even came up.  One “Science Night” many moons ago, I hosted the booger [...]

Fun with Newton’s Laws of Motion

Part of my day job description has me developing new curriculum and test existing lessons for effectiveness.  A side benefit is that my kids become my guinea pigs because I figure if my 5 year old and 2 year old can handle some of these activities, certainly middle schoolers can! My kids helped me test [...]

Cookies make everything better.

What is it about warm, homemade chocolate chip cookies?  Even typing that makes me drool a little bit.  I stooped to an all-time parenting low.  I bribed my children with the promise of one glorious homemade chocolate chip cookie in their school lunch.  I loved the look on my two year old’s face as he [...]

Iced Cookies

My kids and I have a lot of fun in the kitchen together, and I typically don’t mind the mess. Recently I let the kids paint cookies. They weren’t terribly pretty, but they sure had fun doing it! We first made some cookie dough using “The Best Rolled Sugar Cookies” from AllRecipes.com. Ingredients 1 1/2 cups [...]

A wall of imagination

Have you ever had one of those unexpected moments with your kids where it feels magical, creative, and everyone is just happy?  My kids and I had one of those last night.  Hubby was coming home late from work so I thought for sure it would turn into a power struggle where the monkeys outnumbered [...]

What to Wear for Your Portrait Session

Capturing Your Life, One Image at a Time By Dawn Fry What to Wear for Your Portrait Session, August 2010 Oh the weather outside is frightful…but the fire is so delightful… Oh no! Not Christmas songs! Not yet! It’s too early!! I know, while the weather outside IS frightfully hot, I suppose it is not [...]

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