kids

With so much winning and 5 Championships over the years, it all becomes kind of a blissful blur for us Pats fans. The question is. Are the kids on board with the dynasty of bling?

With the N'oreaster bearing down on us for Thursday, we've received lots of requests to bring this video back. It's a GUARANTEED WAY to get the day off from school tomorrow....but you have to follow the instructions EXACTLY or it may not work! ...

You can bring a piece of Middle-earth straight to your backyard, with these incredible custom built Hobbit houses!

It's a rainy spring week and all of your disposable income for the next two months was blown during April vacation. Here are a few suggestions for low-budget indoor entertainment to keep the kids occupied: Kids can make slime with just a few low cost ingredients that you might already have...

You and I have AC/DC actually embedded into our DNA. But what about the next generation? There are people on the planet who have NEVER heard AC/DC....and most of them are under 12 years-old. Check out what happens when kids hear Angus and the Boys for the very first time...

I'm always looking for craft ideas to keep the kids busy, especially on rainy days. This inexpensive dining room table project was a hit. I went to Michael's Crafts and got the female styrofoam heads on sale for a few bucks each. I picked up some Modge Podge while I was there for 6 dollars, and the kids hit up our neighbors for their old magazines...

Once in awhile when you scour YouTube, you'll come across something that stops you in your tracks...and this is one of those things. YouTube user AmericanStandardRules01 has filmed a series of videos going to various bathrooms from popular establishments in Portland and South Portland...

We love seeing the next generation of Rockers crank it up at the Maine Academy of Modern Music. If you've ever caught one of these young bands play out you'll  hear them play everything from The Doors to Green Day plus their own original songs...

Our five year old is a blooming performer who is crafting her art on the hearth of our wood stove while singing into a walking stick that I bought at The Fryeburg Fair a few years ago. Here, she performs on a Saturday morning, in her pajamas, for an intimate audience...

I am the biggest fan of our Wednesday Farmer's Market on Monument Square! Above is my "Before" picture of my treasures. Those cute white pumpkins were a perfect painting project  for our half day of school. The girls got a little carried away with the paint...

Halloween is just around the corner and you can buy some very creative and unusual costumes on Etsy, made by Mainers! Today, I want to introduce you to Tree and Vine.  Ellen Okolita, the owner and artist, was making purple unicorn horns when I reached her yesterday...

Does your kid love metal? Excellent! Those scary lyrics and aggressive thrash are a way to purge negativity and can be very cathartic!

Every spring since about eighth grade, May has been dance recital season. We used to pack the Biddeford City Theater watching our friends and family take the stage to show us how hard they had been working on turns and leaps and extensions...

This is my five year old Sunday afternoon on our way to visit her Papa and Nona in Waterboro. It could have been me. I am exhausted!

The snow is really getting to me. Between snow days and kids' sick days, I feel like I haven't left the house in far too long. None of us have! So I took a deep breath and watched my kids and dogs, along with Daddy, build a snow man.

What do you do with a couple of stir crazy kids on another snow day? I'm lucky because they like to craft and so do I. Since we had a heads up that snow was on the way, I had a chance to gather my supplies for this one. Here's what you'l need: White plates- I bought mine at, where else?..Do...