We were on our way home from church 2 weeks ago when my 5 year old spotted them. “BLACKBERRIES!!” he screamed and we stopped. There were so many, at least 500 feet of bushes packed with berries with branches more than 7 feet tall! My daughter wore her Easter bonnet to church. We grabbed it, [...]
Summer BBQ Fun Kids Activities
July 30, 2010 By
The kids had a blast and so did the parents at our Backyard Discovery BBQ! There is nothing like hot dogs on the grill and outside fun for kids! This is what great summer memories are made of. Running, climbing, swinging, laughing, and playing should be the focus of summer for all kids. Backyard Discovery [...]
Choose a playset big enough for your kids friends
July 14, 2010 By
I seriously don’t know what we would do without our Backyard Discovery Patriot playset. My kids have spent hours and hours on this playset all summer long. It’s an easy activity for me because I don’t have to think up something creative, I know they will have a fun time playing everytime we head outdoors! [...]
How to get kids to use their imaginations
July 4, 2010 By
Playing on a Backyard Discovery playground is more than swinging, playing in a sandbox, and going down a slide. A Backyard Discovery Playset is the backdrop for your kids imagination. You might be amazed at what kids can dream up and become when they can physically explore and pretend. In a previous post, my kids [...]
Kids go Higher! Higher! with Backyard Discovery Swings
June 19, 2010 By
Whenever my 3 year old daughter swings, she references her favorite book, Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli. Swinging is a great time to imagine and have fun with your kids. My daughter’s favorite activity is swinging on her Backyard Discovery Playset by far! She runs to the swings when we go outside first. Of course [...]
How To Paint Clouds on the Ceiling
June 11, 2010 By
Elijah is our nature boy. He can tell you about every animal on the planet! It was fitting for him to have a nature theme bedroom with clouds on the ceiling. You may remember that Elijah’s ceiling fan is the Warbird Tiger Shark Ceiling Fan from Palm Fan Store. In that post, we talked about [...]
Does your dog need moral support like ours?
June 11, 2010 By
Are we the only house in the world with a crazy dog? A seriously freaked out by his own dog food kind of dog? Our dog waits all day to eat his dog food. We do give him our leftovers in his dog dish during the day but even without leftovers, he’ll wait all day [...]
Backyard Spring Picnic and the Bad Aliens!
June 4, 2010 By
Thanks to everyone who made it to our Backyard Discovery Spring Picnic! The weather threatened us with rain and hail just hours before the party but for those that made it, we had a super fun time! When you get 10 kids together ages 3 – 10, it’s hard to tell what you will have. [...]
My kids are the best explorers
June 3, 2010 By
It’s the beginning of Summer Break and I’m already wondering what we are going to do all summer. We have the kids signed up for VBS, soccer, ballet, and swim lessons but those don’t start until another few weeks… Today, it started out rainy. We played tea party, dinosaurs, watched Underdog, colored and practiced writing. [...]
Are kids safe on home playgrounds?
May 27, 2010 By
Backyard playgrounds can be the best part of summer for kids! My kids love their Backyard Discovery playset and are on it all of the time, year round. Now that it is summer, it has been the center of attention transforming into a Pirate Ship, Princess Castle, and even Space Shuttle! They are always ‘flying [...]
Kids ages 3-10 play well together on Backyard Discovery Playset
May 12, 2010 By
With the cold Spring we’ve had, we still have not yet planted grass seed. We had 2 nights of frost last week. My kids have been begging to have some kids over for a playdate on their Backyard Discovery Playset. I wanted to wait until the grass was planted and the mulch was laid. Instead, [...]
Take your kids outside so they can sleep at night
May 4, 2010 By
In March, we moved out of the city and into the ‘country’ next to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park to be close to nature. My husband and I love hiking new trails and just generally being outdoors. When Elijah was born, I read an article about how to straighten out newborn’s internal clock to be [...]
My Moving Story: Entry 3
March 9, 2010 By
Moving to the country with the beautiful scenery, peaceful quiet, and lots of space for the kids to run and explore is why we moved from the suburbia. This is a good move for us, however it is not without inconveniences. The day that we signed our papers, last Tuesday, we tried to get settled [...]
My Moving Story: Part 2
March 5, 2010 By
Well, life has changed plenty since I wrote the last entry on my moving story. We were getting nowhere with the short sale home so my hubby and I decided to hop online to see what else was out there. We found an interesting house with a great piece of land and nice square footage. [...]
My Moving Story: Part 1
February 21, 2010 By
So the week that we have been waiting for since August is finally here. Moving week! Well, almost…We sold our house! Yippee!!! And the family is a perfect fit for our neighborhood with young kids – this is a bonus because we love our neighbors. The “almost” part is that we don’t have a house [...]
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