Home & Lifestyle Tips, Parenting Tips

Serving Up Summer Fun: Food-Themed Games Kids Will Love

Food-Themed Games Kids Will Love

As a parent, I’m always on the lookout for fun, safe, and screen-time-worthy games — not just mindless clicking. And if those games happen to tie into real-world learning or creativity? Even better.

That’s why I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled onto the CulinarySchools.org Kids’ Games section. What started as a “let’s try one or two games and see” moment with my child quickly turned into a full afternoon of giggles, pretend kitchen chaos, and surprisingly fun food-themed gameplay.

Some of these games are surprisingly entertaining, even for adults. Whether it’s the fast pace of Cooking Street or the puzzle strategy behind Watermelon Game, they had me just as hooked as my kid.

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Home & Lifestyle Tips, Parenting Tips

15 Simple Ways to Make Summer Magical with Kids

15 Simple Ways to Make Summer Magical with Kids

Summer doesn’t have to mean packed schedules, expensive trips, or elaborate plans to be memorable. Often, it’s the little things — the unplanned moments, the simple joys — that kids remember most fondly.

If you’re looking for meaningful ways to spend time with your children this summer, here’s a list of 15 small but magical adventures to share together. These ideas don’t require much more than your time, some creativity, and a willingness to slow down and savor the season.

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Home & Lifestyle Tips, Parenting Tips

Honest Review of Lovevery: The Examiner Play Kit for 4 Year Olds

As a parent, it’s always a joy to discover educational tools that not only engage my child but also nurture their growth and development.

We have been using Lovevery Play kits since my son was a baby and it has truly been a game-changer in our household.

The thoughtfully curated toys cater to my child’s curiosity and evolving interests. From interactive puzzles that spark creativity to hands-on activities that promote problem-solving skills, each item in the kit is designed to stimulate young minds.

Lovevery offers Stage-based play essentials for your child’s developing brain. If you have a little one, you may have definitely heard of them. Their different play kits right from the baby stage to the toddler stage is carefully curated by expert professionals.

In this post, let’s take a look at one of the recent Play Kit kits we got for my 4-year-old.

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Recipes

Hot Chocolate Oats

This is a sponsored post. All opinions as always are mine.

These delicious and creamy Hot Chocolate Oats are just what you need as the weather starts getting colder.

There’s nothing quite like a warm cup of hot chocolate on a cold winter day. But what if you could enjoy that same delicious flavor in a healthy, hearty bowl of oats? That’s where hot chocolate oats come in.

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Travel

5 Ways to Make the Most of your Vacation

Making the most of your vacation is essential. You’ve put in your vacation time, packed, and you are ready to go. But, what if you get there and it doesn’t live up to your expectations? That is a huge bummer! Don’t let that happen and instead, follow these ways to make the most out of your vacation – 

5 Ways to Make the Most of your Vacation - Making the most of your vacation is essential. Follow these tips to make the most of your vacation.

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Home & Lifestyle Tips

Simple Ways to Update your Home this Summer

If you are searching for ways to spruce up your home without penny-pinching, these five things will freshen your home up and hopefully bump up the selling price of your home.

No matter if it is your dream home or your first home, when you first move into a new house, you have so many ideas and inspiration for what you are going to do to it over the years.

You think about how your children will grow up playing in your backyard (maybe under your renovated pergola?!), how you might add a new nursery one day, or how you could turn your basement into a movie theater. While you are daydreaming about all of the changes you could make to your home, the one thing you are not thinking about is how costly and timely a lot of updating really takes.

Don’t worry, though – there really are simple ways to update your home in 2022 without spending a fortune. If you are searching endlessly for ways to spruce up your home without penny-pinching, you are in luck because today, we are coming at you with five things that you can do to your home which will freshen it up and hopefully bump up the (future) selling price of your home.

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Recipes

Easy Vegan Triple Berry Baked Oatmeal

Simple, easy, and nutritious – this easy vegan Triple Berry Baked Oatmeal is a healthy and quick breakfast recipe that you can make ahead of time and is perfect for busy mornings.

Triple Berry baked oatmeal

I love make-ahead breakfast recipes so I don’t have to spend time in the kitchen in the morning before heading out the door.

This simple triple berry-baked oatmeal is a healthy recipe that you can make ahead of time and have on busy mornings. It has no added sugar and it also doesn’t have any eggs so this recipe is vegan friendly.

The delicious berries give an added boost of flavor and are just what you need to get your day started off on the right track.

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Food Reviews

Goodles: The Better for you Mac & Cheese

This is a sponsored post. As always all opinions are mine.

Mac and Cheese is probably one of the most loved dishes that ever existed. And although boxed mac and cheese has somewhat of a bad rapport, let’s face it, we have eaten (& also served it to our kids) a number of times. But what if I told you that there existed a better for you Mac & Cheese (the boxed version) out there?

Say Hello to Goodles – a gooder noodle!

mac and cheese

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