total flop

new for us friday: the pumpkin playdough flop

November 20, 2010

I’ll be the first to admit that we’ve had our fair share of flops over here, and this week we had another one of them. It was messy. It was sticky. It was everywhere, and it did not fulfill my dream in any way, shape, or form. It was homemade playdough.  Pumpkin. And it was [...]

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a big teach mama flop: fancy summer flip-flops

June 27, 2010

They look great, don’t they? So cute! So summery! So perfect for little feet! We thought so, until one by one, the flips we took an afternoon to beautify started falling apart, one by one. Boo-hoo, boo-hoo. Like our last biggie teach mama flop, our fancy summer flip-flops were another. Big. Flop. Here’s the skinny: [...]

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it’s a bird. . . it’s a plane. . . it’s a–

January 27, 2010

. . . squid dog. Yep. You got it. A squid dog. This is what happens when I get a new Family Fun Magazine in the mail on a Friday, my husband heads out to a Saturday night college basketball game, and I’m left alone with three kids. And I’ve got some hotdogs and spaghetti [...]

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