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The Way Women are Portrayed at Arcades: This BUGS me!!!

2015-05-02 aprilmomoffour family, little boys, parenting, toys, video games

Am I the only one annoyed by this? We try to be good parents. We monitor every single thing that comes into our house. The boys only get to play video games on the weekend, and even then, it’s Mario, Sonic, or Lego characters. But what happens when you take your children to a restaurant/video game arcade? And not just one particular one, but pretty much all of them? Scantily clad women waving flags on the motorcycle game. Ughhhhhhh. Why? […]

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17 comments arcades, boys, girls, sexism, video games

The Year of Getting Organized

2014-03-22 aprilmomoffour 4 kids, baby milestones, big family life, birthday, books, Caleb, Daniel, de-cluttering, decluttering, goals, little boys, nap, New Year's goals, organizing, pictures, rest, snow, The Great Clean Out, toddlers, toys

I’ve written gobs of blog posts where I’m really bad about never going back and letting you know how that all turned out. This is my goal for tonight: lots of updates!! Update #1: The Great Clean Out inspired by reading Money Saving Mom‘s book: It’s sort of an odd time to suddenly be all about organizing my house: we are moving in JUNE. However, we are drowning in TMS–too much stuff–so I have been plugging away at “The […]

Toys That Keep Our Boys BUSY

2014-01-16 aprilmomoffour books, Heaven is for Real, Nabi, toys

Heaven is for Real for little ones by Colton Burpo When I read this book to the boys, they were sitting on the edge of their seats, especially my nine-year-old. They were all so eager to hear about what Heaven is like. This book is full of hope and colorful pictures. When I finished reading it, the boys argued over who got to hold it and look at it. I put together this list of Christmas gifts that were the biggest […]

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I May Never Make it to Chapter Three….

2014-01-11 aprilmomoffour books, cakes, decluttering, toddlers, toys

I mentioned in a previous post: new-years-check-up, that one of my missions this year is to get back on track with our budget. With four kids in tow, we really need to chill it on the spending! I decided a great way to help me focus on this mission would be to read this book: Here’s my only problem: In chapter two she says you should de-clutter your house. In fact, she recommends getting a babysitter […]