Fairy Snails » Tidbits http://www.fairysnails.com The Magical World of Girls and Boys. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:18:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 A Test Post with Stewie http://www.fairysnails.com/a-test-post-with-stewie http://www.fairysnails.com/a-test-post-with-stewie#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:36:50 +0000 Fae Pulmonata http://www.fairysnails.com/?p=98

]]> http://www.fairysnails.com/a-test-post-with-stewie/feed 0 Couldn’t leave us out! http://www.fairysnails.com/couldnt-leave-us-out http://www.fairysnails.com/couldnt-leave-us-out#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:38:35 +0000 Fae Pulmonata http://www.fairysnails.com/?p=91

We had such a beautiful weekend here, I tore myself away from the machine, and got down and dirty with the kids and the house. We played outside, did some light clean up, washed the car, and I started to finish my bedroom project.

All this thinking about their room’s reminded me that I put my husband and mine on the back burner, and it was time to turn up the heat!

So I touched up some furniture with some robins eggs blue, since we are creating around our rug. Now I’m on the hunt for some retro style wallpaper to do a couple of the walls in browns and blue, and wall painting and papering can begin! It’s an exciting thought actually having the sanctuary we dreamed of as well.

The Beginning.

The Beginning.

Book shelf

Book shelf

Hubby's Table

Hubby's Table

Dressers

Dressers

You get the idea.

Let the painting begin! It’s almost Spring, a great time to start getting ready for everything fresh and new.

]]> http://www.fairysnails.com/couldnt-leave-us-out/feed 0 TV time and 4 year olds http://www.fairysnails.com/tv-time-and-4-year-olds http://www.fairysnails.com/tv-time-and-4-year-olds#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:42:26 +0000 Fae Pulmonata http://www.fairysnails.com/?p=27

Picture © www.istockphoto.com/Russell Tate

Maybe I’m the last in the know on this. But it was a pretty shocking news bit to me today, especially considering it’s from 2005!

I’ve always been a believer in the less is more aspect of TV. I’ve heard the studies linking it to violence and ADHD, risk taking behavior even some say, promiscuity. This is the first time I’ve heard a specific age where it seems to make the most difference. Our son is about to turn 4, and he’s just started to play some video games, his sister was raised on the Vsmile and Leapfrog devices, and Santa brought a playstation 2 for her this year. He gets very stressed and even brought to tears with the thought of “the green guy getting him” on Batman Lego, to something with a top hat around the corner in a spongebob game.

I’m pulling the plug and coming up with a unique way to limit all TV time, video games included. Have you tried anything that changed things in your household?

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Our original plan was to have fairysnails up and running last year. Between the kids, a couple new dogs we rescued, my husbands career taking some exciting turns that involved some travel, and some speaking events, it just never happened.

Now that our son will be 4, I’m hoping I can tackle the time I need to make fairysnails everything I have planned it to be.

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