This weekend, use a piece of paper to help your child understand the difference between rough and smooth.  Run her palm across the surface of the paper, and say “Smooth.”  Then, crumple up the paper into a tight ball, and run her palm across the surface of the ball. “This is rough.”

Hi, Internets! I am writing this from a glorious tropical island paradise (Okay, it’s a little beach town, it’s drizzling, and I was down with a mild bout of food poisoning last night; plus, I read in the papers that malaria has been doing the rounds, but for someone who hasn’t taken a day off in the past seven months, it sure feels like heaven).  Hope all is well with all of you wonderful people, and I’ll be back to regular posting over the weekend.

Coloring page for your kiddies. I wish I could say it was the result of my natural artistic talents. But, its not. I am test driving a daily coloring page service. Just click on the smaller icon, print and color. Let me know if you like it!

Edit: I moved this to the right hand side of the home page.

So, Cindy at Go Workout Mom tagged me to write a six word memoir. Since there is a strong possibility this is my only chance at any length of memoir, here goes.

“Before the boy, bedlam. Now, harmony.”

Now that we’ve got that profound life story out of the way, I am expected to tag five other bloggers to share their memoirs, and I’ve selected the women behind these amazing blogs.

Nicole at Planning With Kids

Trish at Another Piece of the Puzzle

Elexis at The Stuff I Live For

Lis at Woolgatherings

Jen at Big Binder

According to the rules, each person will have to post her Six Word Memoir, and tag five other bloggers. Remember to link to the post that tagged you, and leave a note at the blogs you tag letting them know they’ve been tagged! (Forgive the sound of this last sentence, I am in a bit of a rush!)

I can’t wait to read the life stories of these girls…in six words!

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Disclaimer: I am not actually suggesting you take any number of kids in a fight.

I just played this game, and was pretty mortified at the results. Apparently, my fitness levels are at an all time low - I can take on only 12 5-year-olds-in a brawl. Pitiful.

It doesn’t help that I am vertically challenged, and don’t remember ever being trampled by a horse. Play to find out.

I’d like to know how these kick ass Moms fare - Cindy at Go Workout Mom, who’s flexing her muscles while she cleans the oven, scrubs the garage, and more feats that leave me exhausted just reading about them, and and Lisa at Workout Mommy who runs marathons. Enough said. I am guessing they’ll probably take on at least 30 runts each.

Here are 14 reasons for for you to get to work building on your preschooler’s alphabet and word skills, pronto!

Watch at your own risk.