Mommahopper

How to get your Family to Help with Dishes

Dishes. I hate doing dishes. But I do them. In a family of 8 they get stacked up pretty quickly. When we put the house on the market I had asked that everyone be responsible and put their dirty dishes in the dishwasher. It wasn't that hard. But some how my family just didn't get it and I did not do well … [Continue Reading]

10 Creative Toys that Every Foster Home Needs

We have had children in and out of our house. Through these children I have notice that there have been some toys that have with stood the test of children who need an outlet for creative play. Plus these toys have also been my sons favorite toys and continue to be my children's favorite toys. I feel that toys … [Continue Reading]

Advice to Young Newly Married Couples

Being married is HARD! It takes work ever minute to learn how to live with each other, communicate, love each other, respect each other, just live with each other. We all know it takes a LOT of work to be married to each other. When I married Dan, we both came from divorced families. So I took the best from my … [Continue Reading]

Where’s Mom: Will They Find Me?

It seems that I hear often "where's mom?" though out the day. Sometimes by the time they find me they have forgot what they wanted, just needed to see me and go about their day. Sometimes they need something now. Somedays get pretty intense here. So when I finally have a safe moment to go to the bathroom, with in a … [Continue Reading]

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10 Unique Things in My Fridge

I have two fridges. Main one up stairs and our over flow one down stair. It hold extra milks drinks and stuff. I picked 10 Unique things-plus cleaned my fridge out a bit. I even tried to make a cute movie but let’s face it…. I still need learning. Here they are: 1. Water-we have… [Continue Reading]

How to get your Family to Help with Dishes

Dishes. I hate doing dishes. But I do them. In a family of 8 they get stacked up pretty quickly. When we put the house on the market I had asked that everyone be responsible and put their dirty dishes in the dishwasher. It wasn’t that hard. But some how my family just didn’t get… [Continue Reading]

10 Little Things that Make my Day

1. Birds singing in the morning 2. A cup of coffee before the children wake up 3. A clean kitchen sink 4. A Hug 5. “Mom this is the best meal you have ever made!” 6. Going to the bathroom without the cat or kids needing me. 7. Beating a Sugar Rush level (yeah I… [Continue Reading]