Back in 2009, I shared some of my family’s favorite board games, and this year I’ll share a few more. My kids are 8, 5 and 5 and have been playing games regularly since age 2. We’ve had good luck introducing games meant for older kids to them, but I’ll make suggestions for age ranges …
Image from pbogs at Flickr With the cooler weather, it’s a great time to encourage family togetherness and exercise by getting outdoors together. Since we’re working on our Debt Snowball right now, we’re not spending any money on entertainment and relying on FREE activities like these: Hiking: With my twin girls now 5 1/2, it’s …
Last-minute, anyone? Yes, I’m that kind of mom. The girls informed me that they have to wear green tomorrow for school, and we don’t have anything. I dislike the “tradtion” that school kids have of pinching those who aren’t wearing green; it was even worse to deal with when I was a teacher. Good thing …
Off on another indoor winter adventure! This time, we went to a museum with FREE admission** in Washington DC: The National Building Museum. We’d been there before, maybe three years ago, but we were excited to visit again with our kids older and to see the Lego Architecture: Towering Ambition exhibit(open through September 5, 2011). …
I’m always on the lookout for frugal fun for my family. Last weekend, we took the kids to The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore last weekend. It should have been a one-hour trip, but we had to stop twice for an almost-carsick child (thankfully nothing happened). The Walters has FREE admission, and while there was …
We still have two more days of school here, but I’m keeping the kids busy with wintry baking and crafts. We used some leftover 2X4 pieces to make these cute snowmen! Our supplies were: a scrap 2×4 fine sandpaper white paint, and other colors for embellishment bits and bobs (googly eyes, buttons, foam, etc.) scrap …