Basic, Never Boring
This holiday season, Claire has put together a series of fabulous gift guides. Each guide is themed and grouped by age. Give these gift guides a look if you are struggling with holiday gift ideas or looking for a bit of inspiration. First up, Arts, Crafts, and Music gifts! Birth – 2 years old Introduce…
What we’re making… These adorable fabric pumpkins. Sara shared theses adorable fabric pumpkins with us last fall and she’s re-purposing them into a Thanksgiving centerpiece this year. The step-by-step directions for the centerpiece will be up on the blog this week, so keep your eyes peeled. And in the meantime, make these fabric pumpkins so…
The Importance of Keeping your Blood Sugar in Check With the holiday season fast approaching, there are so many things that everyone has on their mind. Cooking and eating are some of those top thoughts for most. But what also needs to accompany those chart topping images is whether or not you are keeping your…
Now that Halloween has passed, everyone seems ready to start buzzing about all things Christmas – gifts, decorations – you get the idea. Here at Ur Basic Mom, we love to support our fellow mamas who are killing the home business game. It is always a priority of ours to shop from small, family-owned online…
What we’re watching… The Politician on Netflix Late to the party on this one, again. But, it’s sooooo good! It’s about a super rich high schooler with big ambitions. He wants to get into Harvard and become President. He’s got it all figured out, but he’s really struggling to hold it together. It’s funny and…
As a high school counselor, I get to participate in school spirit activities such as theme days. If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard the term “VSCO girl”, and their trademarks like “sksksk” or “and I oop”. These are all phrases commonly used by VSCO girls but they don’t exactly make…
I rinse the soap bubbles down the sink after supper and can’t help but look at the clock. My jaw drops a bit and I rejoice. It’s only 6:35! That means there’s over an hour and a half until bed. I tick off daily items on my mental to-do list: Supper? Check. Homework? Check. Dishes?…
What we’re reading… Super Attractor by Gabrielle Bernstein Our contributor, Claire has been listening to this best-seller on audiobook and loving it. It’s all about manifesting the life of your dreams. You might recognize this author from her New York Times #1 best seller, The Universe Has Your Back. You don’t need to have read…
Happy Halloween, Mamas! Yes, the number one sugary holiday is here again. At this point all costumes have been assembled, Trick-or-Treating arrangements have been made, and candy to distribute has been purchased. Now, as moms, we wait. We wait until our children’s overtired, over sugared heads hit the pillow. And, then we get to work……
There are a few things that come to mind when I think of Fall. First is the changing of the leaves and the smell of bonfires. But those are closely followed by the need for a great bowl of soup to warm you up on a cool Autumn evening. Yes, chili and a smooth Butternut…