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  • BabbaBox from BabbaCo: Activity Box for Kids {2012 Holiday Gift Guide}

    BabbaBox from BabbaCo: Activity Box for Kids {2012 Holiday Gift Guide}

    I love gifts that engage parents and kids to enhance a childs learning. As a mom I know the importance of being the first teacher to my kids.  My very first blog was actually centered around this idea (3 Princesses and a Prince Academy).  I’ve tried a lot of different approaches to teaching my kids, but I tend to skip around a bunch, always coming up with new ideas, and never fully accomplishing what I wanted to.  It’s not really a bad thing, but sometimes it meant I was unprepared for a day, and so I’d skip getting down with them and learning.  We’d go through funks.

    I recently saw an ad for a BabbaBox on another blog. It looked like a lot of fun, so I decided I had to look into them a bit more.

    I tell you what, this is one gift I would love to get my kids!  BabbaCo is a monthly subscription for an activity box, geared towards kids ages 3-6.  Each BabbaBox has a new theme to the box, and is full of everything you need to craft, teach and play with your kids.

    Every Babbabox contains 4 components:

    Create – 2-3 projects that include every material needed to create.
    Explore – a theme based product to engage your child with the world and nature
    Storytell – books to stimulate your childs imagination
    Connect – interactive prepaid downloads approved by the Babbaco experts

    BabbaBox - Activity Box for Kids
    This holiday season give the gift of imagination and exploration. Kids will love getting a new box every month.  

    Check out my Holiday Gift Guide for more great gift ideas and then enter the 2012 Holiday Gift Giveaway.

  • Blogathon Bash Wrap Up #blogathon2

    Blogathon Bash Wrap Up #blogathon2

    Biannual Blogathon BashWow! What a wild and crazy blogging weekend! I am so glad I participated in this blogathon. I got so much work done behind stage here at Home Maid Simple!  I got some personal goals accomplished, like weeding through all my emails, organizing my schedule, writing up some rough drafts, brainstorming post ideas, and scheduling out some posts so I can spend more time with the family.

    My favorite part of this blogathon though is how much I learned!! I sure hope you guys are ready for some awesome posts.  Through the Mini Challenges I’ve now learned so much. My favorites that I’ll be using constantly though are these

    – Printable Recipes! Now you’ll be able to print out Foodie Friday’s recipes.
    – Photo Collages! I have wanted to figure this out for awhile, but had no idea where to start. Turns out it was really easy. Check out Picmonkey.com.  No more huge pictures all in a line. Yay!
    – Favicon. Ok this doesn’t benefit you guys so much, but I just think it’s cool. Look up at your browser tabs. See my cool new symbol? It’s the maid’s head. So now you can always get back to me when you go browsing elsewhere. Cool right? Ok maybe not for you, but I feel awesome.

    Normally I take weekends off from blogging, but I’m glad I put a little more focus into it this weekend. I’ll be using many of the things I learned to make Home Maid Simple a better experience for you my readers.  I spent approximately 10 hours this weekend blogging, learning, and having fun with my fellow blogathon participants. You guys rock!!