Over the weekend, we had a beautiful baby shower for my sister and her husband. Each of us had a few tasks to complete, and one my jobs was favors. I just HAD to share with you all how cute they turned out!
We did an ‘Under the Sea” theme, so I decided to go with personalized M&M packs in blue, blue-green and white to celebrate their little boy. I had the candies personalized with Welcome {baby name} and also some had little baby footprints on them. They ended up costing about $2.50 per pack and I found a random promo code online that gave me about $11 off the total order.
I found a cute little basket and sign holder one day when I was out thrifting/antiquing and I printed off an easy little favor sign.
The best part was that they took me a minimal amount of time to place the order (rather than running around to a bunch of stores and making something) and they are M&M’s… so YUM.
We cut the cord to cable quite some time ago, so when we do our television watching it’s on Netflix or Disney+. A couple months ago, we decided to upgrade our TV watching and signed up for a Discovery+ subscription and I LOVE IT!
For Discovery+, you have two subscription options. You can do the regular unlimited access for $4.99 a month, which has commercials. OR, you can do the Ad-Free version for $6.99 a month. We got the ad-free version and it is worth every extra penny to avoid the advertisements.
We’ve gotten in the habit of sitting down for a show as a family after dinner, which is such a nice way to end the day. According to the Discovery+ website, there are more than 55,000 episodes of 2,500 current and classic shows from HGTV, Food Network, TLC, ID, Animal Planet and Discovery Channel.
Our favorites:
Home Town: We love Ben and Erin Napier and I think we’re almost through season 3 of this show. They take an old home, rip it apart and rebuild it into something wonderful. All three of us watch this and we love how they really make each house a home for their client. Also, I would very much love to spend a day in Ben’s shop watching him make one of his wood creations!
Guy’s Grocery Games: We had never heard of this show before clicking around for something new one night, but it has 24 seasons… so it’s been around for a while! It’s a reality(ish) cooking show which takes place in a Grocery Store set — so it’s kind of like a mix of Supermarket Sweep and a cooking contest. This is the perfect game for people who like to heckle the tv (um… me, absolutely) and Jack likes it too!
Dirty Jobs: We clicked on this one night thinking that maybe Jack would be interested in it, and it reminded me how much I love Mike Rowe! So far, we’ve watched him poke a stick into volcano lava, make cheese in a huge basin, and clean up after the animals at a zoo. It’s pretty great family TV!
How It’s Made: I didn’t realize this show was still out there, so I was thrilled to see it on Discovery+. I’m a collector of random knowledge and Jack is totally following in my footsteps. While I’m certainly not against dumb tv that is just there to entertain you, I don’t mind a show that is a fun way to learn too!
Do you have a Discovery+ show that I should add to our watch list?
Jack has been enjoying a new reading series! I feel like that sentence should get like 10 exclamation points. So I wanted to share the series with you all in case you have a young reader in your life! The interest for this latest series came out of an online class with the school librarian. She told the kids about different books they can check out though the school’s online borrowing system.
I was in a meeting, but as soon as I hung up my phone Jack burst into my office with a list of book titles written on his whiteboard.
One of those titles was Princess Pulverizer.
Knowing literally nothing about the book other than the description literally made my kid excited to read, I immediately clicked over to my Amazon account and ordered the first three paperbacks.
Parenting Rule #108: If my kid is interesting in reading a book, any book… I’m buying it!
Princess Pulverizer: Grilled Cheese and Dragons by Nancy Krulik (find it here on Amazon)
Source: Amazon.com
Synopsis: Princess Serena (or as she prefers, Princess Pulverizer) doesn’t want to be a princess–she wants to be knight! But her father, King Alexander of Empiria, thinks she still has a lot to learn when it comes to exhibiting valiant behavior. So, he presents a challenge: the princess must first go on a Quest of Kindness and perform good deeds to prove that she truly deserves to go to knight school. With help from a friendly dragon named Dribble and a perpetually terrified knight-in-training named Lucas, can she complete her quest and discover what it really takes to be a hero?
You guys, if I could hug the author, I totally would. This is a real, actual CHAPTER book with a Lexile score higher than my kid is currently testing. However, he loves this series so much that we have been reading a chapter each night. I read a page, he reads a page, and we go back and forth until the end of the chapter. He doesn’t complain that I’m making him learn… he LOVES IT.
We just finished the second book of the series together, Princess Pulverizer: Worse, Worser, Wurst and he liked it as much as the first one. Even though he thought the wizard was kind of mean.
There are 8 books in the series and I am happy to buy all of them if it helps my kid to be excited about reading!
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