Top O’ The Morning To Ya!!!

Well it is St. Patrick’s Day and I hope you are wearing your green. My 4 yr old reminded me with a pinch! I informed him I have GREEN EYES. LOL

So does anyone have plans? We do! When my son gets home from school, we will be building a new Leprechaun trap. I just picked up some gold chocolate coins to fill it with when he goes to bed tonight. We are also have corn beef and cabbage with red potatoes for dinner. And I picked up the cutest little shamrock cake at the store bakery. It should be great fun for all.

Well I must be off, I have to pick the boy up from preschool. I think he will love his shamrock shake I got him at McDonalds!!!

National Wildlife Week, fun and educational!!!

Held annually since 1938, National Wildlife Week is NWF’s longest-running education program. And now it is simpler then ever to have fun and learn. They have a sign up for "educators" to receive free stuff and lesson plans.  I don't know about you, but I am the educator in this family, so I signed us up. They have a great "kid's" page with coloring pages, games, puzzles and more. So take a minute to check out this wonderful and fun resource and Enjoy National Wildlife Week!

Play Doh is FUN

One of my favorite childhood toys was Play Doh. So today while I was out I spent $2 and got a 4 pack for the family. Sure I could have made some at home, but I will admit, I love the smell of the "real" stuff. I also wanted to do something educational today so I visited the Play Doh website and found some very interesting things, lesson plans! You can have fun with the play doh while teaching your children, and they don't even know it! Talk about evil genius!!! Thanks Play Doh......I am off to make an alphabet zoo with my son!

St. Patrick's Day traditions

You don’t have to be Irish to enjoy St. Patrick’s Day! At our house we have lots of fun with this holiday. My husband, who is a wonderful cook, usually whips up a traditional dish, and I as the mom add the “magic” to the day. We usually decorate with shamrock garland and leprechauns, but it doesn’t stop there. We have a St. Patrick’s Day tradition…the visiting of the leprechaun.

A few days before St. Patrick’s Day, the leprechaun, starts to leave clues. Like green water in the toilet. I just added a few drops of green food coloring. My son actually got mad at this one, because he said “the leprechaun needs to flush when he is done” LOL!!! But it all leads up to trying to catch the leprechaun.

We used a coffee can, but you could use anything, like a tissue box. We covered it in green construction paper and decorated to look like a “nice place for a leprechaun to rest.” We put a hole in the lid and a rock we covered in gold glitter inside. Our son checked it every morning in hopes of catching a leprechaun. On St Patrick’s Day my son was rewarded not with a leprechaun but a nice chocolate gold coin, which you can get at most grocery stores. He was beyond thrilled and started planning next years capture right away! LOL

So have some fun, add some magic to life, and make your own traditions. Because trust me, when the water turns green in the toilet, my son KNOWS the leprechauns are back!

A sappy adventure continues..........

So we decided that this year, we were going to try and make some maple syrup. Okay, now I know what your thinking, are they nuts, LOL, umm maybe! I figured I would share our little adventure with you, not necessarily encouraging you to go tap a tree, but to realize you can have fun doing just about anything! Maybe a family garden this summer or putting together a fish aquarium. You can learn and have fun as a family doing just about anything.

So here is the start of our adventure.....

Soft but firm pipe cut to make taps, pop bottles and milk jugs hung with coat hanger wire to collect, and a 5 gallon bucket to dump it all in. That is all it took to get started! In 1 day we got over 2 gallons of sap!

We combined our sap with a friend's and boiled it down. Did you know it takes 40 gallons of sap for 1 gallon of syrup!



And here is the first of our finished syrup! It is so yummy. Our french toast was amazing! The trees are flowing and to date we have collected around 30 gallons of sap!

Books are yummy!?!? Yes!!

March is reading month! We love to read here at the MAD Family. My son's preschool is doing a reading challenge and I asked if I could help with the fun. So, I get to not only go in and read his class a story, but I am taking along a bunch of little bookworms. These are so simple and sooooo cute! Just some rice krispy treats, fruit roll ups, and a little bit of your time. Why not make up some for your little readers or heck, yourself!

BOGO Fun!!! Yummy ice cream!!

 

 

Now I know it is still winter and some of us are so cold we can't see straight but here is a wonderful deal to have some fun. Go on Baskin Robbins on Facebook and "Like" them. Then click on the coupon where you can Buy 1 Baskin Robbins cone and Get 1 FREE!! (It is a few posts down.) What child or adult for that matter wouldn't have a little more fun in their day with a yummy ice cream!