No electronics at the table, please!

I'm not the nicest mom, you can ask my kids.  I don't allow electronics at the table.  I don't allow electronics at restaurants, either.  Instead I have a little pouch with crayons, paper for games, an activity pad, and mini clipboards, if needed.  My kids love it!  I have recently found some cute cases to make it work a little better for me.  

               

We used to have a cute portfolio from The Piggy Story.  It got lost somewhere one day.  I still carried a diaper bag at the time so I just crammed the paper and crayons in the bag.  I no longer carry a diaper bag or even a big purse so I got this pink pouch from Walmart for $3.  It worked pretty good but I really wanted it to have handles and, to be honest, I wanted it cheap!

            

I found this little cutie for $8 at Big Lots!  My girls love it & I love that it has handles.  

            

I got this cute little Macbeth camera case from Garden Ridge for $4.  It holds a 24 pack perfectly!

            

This is the rest of the goods in the pouch.  My kids love that we have this in the car.  I'm not saying that when we go to dinner, I never play a competitive game of DOTS on my phone with my older daughter.  I'm just saying that they prefer the bag of goodies while they wait for their food and I prefer to play tic-tac-toe and color right along with them!  Get out there and color!

Teacher's Gifts

I, like many of you, have been scouring Pinterest for ideas for teachers gifts for the last 2 weeks.  I found a lot of towel, pitchers, cups and such.  I wanted to do soething a little different.  I have several friends that are teachers and they get together and relax with a weekly happy hour at someones house.  Sometimes, there's just not enough chairs.  I thought I'd give my kids teachers a happy hour kit!  Please excuse the pictures.  I forgot to take any until I'd already gotten to school.  

   

Their gifts consisted of a camping chair, a koozie, a bottle of water (because beer isn't exactly approriate at school) a bottle of sunscreen, and some Snickers bites.     

                        

My tag is a little sad because I was in a huge hurry and didn't have time to make a super cute one.  I hope this helps you out!  I bought the chairs at Academy for a very affordable price.  I left the tags on so they could exchange it if they wanted to get a different color, I'm not being tacky ;)  I'm a huge fan of functional gifts and best of all, my kids teachers loved them!  Mission completed!

Strawberry Banana Love

I bought a big container of beautiful strawberries on Friday.  And naturally, I got some bananas too.  My kids love both fruits as a snack and love them in a smoothie.

           

I took my girls swimming today and we were starving when we got home.  Those strawberries were calling my name!  As I was cutting up some stawberreis, the bananas caught my eye.  I decided to whip up a light and tasty treat!  

           

I sliced and diced my fruit and added 2(ish) tablespoons of redi-whip and stirred it all together so the "fluff" was on all of the fruit.  

           

My girls were huge fans of their treat and I love that they got in a nice sized dose of fresh fruit.  My kids love fruit and I have no trouble getting them to eat it but it turns into a treat when I added a little bit of "fluff."  Light, fresh, tasty, cool, happy kids, happy mom!