Comments on: Weekend Reset: A Living Room Campout

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 20:19:20 +0000

Thanks for the cookie recipe! As a celiac, I’m always looking for family-friendly treats. I’ve made them twice now—only modification is that I added white chocolate chips. Yummy!

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:53:51 +0000

That's adorable! You got me at that ice cream place! My husband works in Europe every other month so I have a lot of bonding time with my son and daughter. There's a seven year spread between them so it's challenging to find activities for them both but this! When I'm solo parenting, I make Saturday night our "Sweet & Spooky Saturday Night Sleepover!" Oh yeah! We don't have tents but I have two great fort-makers, lots of cushions, corners, sheets, rubber bands and bungees to keep it together and cozy blankets, an emergency lantern, and a crowd-pleasing four dollar copper wire string of fairy lights for inside the fort. Home Sweet Ambiance! We usually start out with Ella Enchanted or the original The Parent Trap. Once little Aiofe is asleep, Archer and I turn on some Goose Bumps or old episodes of Are You Afraid of The Dark? After hearing about this BEET and GOAT CHEESE ICE CREAM I'm losing my mind! I wish Connecticut was cool (Austin weird) enough to have an ice cream place like that! Next time I'll try making cookies-yours look amazing! If I'm feeling lazy, I'll just bust out whatever snacks, ha! If its a super celebratory Saturday maybe I'll pack a picnic basket-if I actually have the energy. Laying around with the kiddos is my personal favorite part.

By: Marty Cruse

Marty Cruse — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:26:10 +0000

Hi Gen, your indoor campout looks like a ton of fun! My son and his girlfriend do fun things like that with their 4 kids, and my daughter and her husband do the same thing with their 2 kids. I’ve done similar things with my kids when they were little, and continue doing fun things with my grandkids. It’s sharing family time together doing these types of extraordinary things with family that helps create wonderful memories and stronger relationships with those you love. Thanks for sharing this little bit of heaven.

By: Suganti

Suganti — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:21:17 +0000

We watch LOTR and The Hobbit during the Christmas break. It’s my fav and somehow it became our family fav. And then we buy a big puzzle and as a family we do it through our winter break. This year I’m thinking of Home Alone movie and set up nice and comfy in our basement and hangout watching it.

By: Alyson

Alyson — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:08:43 +0000

With the holidays breathing down our necks, what homemade treats can your family not live without? My family loves my homemade hot cocoa mix and marshmallows (yes! The marshmallows are homemade!)

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:02:47 +0000

As a kid when it was too rainy or too cold outside, my mom would let us make a tent with sheets and chairs. I loved that as a kid. With my own, I let them do the same only now it’s when it’s too hot to go outside. (Our summer temps hit 100+ all summer long.) Now they’re 18, 14 and 12 year old twins, they don’t do it anymore and I miss that.

By: JESSICA LOZANO

JESSICA LOZANO — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 20:57:42 +0000

Hi Gen!
Since you are talking about cotton balls lol, my 3 yr old nephew came up with a super fun indoor activity. SNOWBALL FIGHT!! with cotton balls! His sister, him and I have so much fun throwing cotton balls, they laugh and laugh and it is easy to clean up. It’s better to play on a hard surface as playing on the carpet, you get a bunch of white fuzz to clean up. However, either way it’s a lot of fun and I thought such a wonderful idea from our little guy. Have a great weekend!! Thank you again for sharing.
Jess

By: Ruth

Ruth — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 20:34:20 +0000

My family and I actually decided to do a movie night every Saturday a few months ago and I’m surprised that we have been very good with keeping up and following through on it.

Some nights we trade in the movies for card games but it’s fun to catch up with my sisters and younger family members at least once a week.

By: Julie Rempel

Julie Rempel — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 19:26:38 +0000

This looks like such a fun idea!! And those oatmeal cookies look delicious! Definitely going to have to try that one!! Thanks for sharing!