Holiday Gift for Grandma {Photo Calendar}

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Need a holiday gift for grandma? Get 40% off a photo calendar at Snapfish with code Jillian40. Thanks to Snapfish for sponsoring this post.

This holiday season I was making my way through my list of possible gifts and thinking about the grandmas in our lives. Nearly all of them share something in common. Calendars! The printed kind of course. So instead of watching grandma crack open 12 months of dogs come January, I thought we’d make her one with a little more meaning behind it.

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I headed to Snapfish to make grandma a calendar featuring some of her favorite tiny humans. After all, framed picture is fantastic, but 12 months of grandchildren to ogle is grandma GOLD. [Read more…]

DIY Super Mario Star Gloves

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Thanks to our friends from Nintendo for inviting us to Nintendo HQ!

Have a Super Mario Bros obsessed child and want a fun accessory to keep them warm this winter? create your own DIY Super Mario Bros star gloves at home. They take just a few minutes to make and work perfectly to customize an inexpensive pair of gloves.

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Shoes for Adventure {Sperry Saltwater}

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Want cute duck boots for kids? Sperry Saltwater duck boots are the best duck boots for kids. Thanks to Sperry for sponsoring this post!

This past week, Kayla and I spent four days in Seattle to work and visit close friends. Coming from San Diego where things are just starting to cool down to a “frigid” sixty degrees, this trip was an abrupt introduction to winter. I spent the week leading up to our trip scrambling to replace Kayla’s outgrown cold weather clothes.

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The Best Time To Be A Kid

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The holiday season is the best time to be a kid. Thanks to Gymboree for sponsoring this post #BestTimeToBeAKid

We are entering the season of perpetual childhood joy. If you’re like me, you leapt in headfirst on November 1st, after exercising much restraint through the later days of October. For our family, it’s not about fast forwarding through other holidays, it’s about maximizing the season of cheer.

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If the holiday season is about spending quality time with family, keeping those in need top of mind and creating magic for our children, then yes, I’ll take two months instead of a few weeks. Sign. Me. Up. [Read more…]

Lunchbox Burnout, Round 1 {DIY Lunchbox}

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Make lunch fun again with my DIY big kid lunchbox. Thanks to Stonyfield for sponsoring this post. #StonyfieldYoKids

I see you over there packing those lunches. Trying to balance picky eaters, nutrition and repeat lunchbox syndrome. This is the time of year many of us encounter our first bout of lunchbox burnout. If you’re like me, then as much as you love your children, you aren’t going to manifest it by turning their lunch into a food diorama of their favorite movie.


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5 Tips To Keep Germs Away This Flu Season

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Here are 5 tips to keep germs away this flu season. Thanks to Clorox for sponsoring this post #FluFOMO #SaveTheLikes

Well guys, 2017 did NOT go as planned. One week I was cruising around Disneyland and the next I was in the hospital being diagnosed with leukemia. I did not get to go home and pack a bag. I did not get to kiss my kids goodbye. In fact, I didn’t get to see them for weeks because it was still flu season and the hospital doesn’t allow children under 12 to visit during flu season.

I have spent months in the hospital this year. Vacations and work trips cancelled. Life postponed. It’s safe to say that the Warner family has missed out on ENOUGH for one year. Or five. Or a lifetime. This flu season I’m like, BYE Flu-lecia. BYE! We don’t need you in our home.  [Read more…]