Playdough is the absolutely perfect play thing for any child.

It…

• Provides hours of entertainment – that laundry’s not gonna get itself done!
• Encourages creativity – budding inventor or artist in the house?
• Promotes individual play or team cooperation with a whole group of friends.
• Is a natural stress reliever. All that squeezing and mashing can be done on the playdough instead of baby sister.

As a toy, playdough has it all!

Now you just need a tried and true perfect play-dough recipe and you can have your own little inventor creating new playdough pizza combinations in less than half an hour.

When it comes to math and learning – one of the very best ways to understand fractions is by cooking. And what better to cook than delicious gooey melt-in-your-mouth chocolate chip cookies?

Yum. I’m drooling just thinking about them.

I have The. Best. Recipe. given to me by an amazing sister-in-law and yes, I am willing to share.

Get ready for some amazing deliciousness in your future.

I learned something fantastic this week by listening to the podcast, “Happier” by Gretchen Rueben. She shared a quote that I have been thinking about ever since. This quote came from a book written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House series.

“We are so overwhelmed with things these days that our lives are all, more or less, cluttered. I believe it is this, rather than a shortness of time, that gives that feeling of hurry and almost helplessness. Everyone is hurrying and usually just a little late. Notice the faces of the people who rush past on the streets or on our country roads! They nearly all have a strained, harassed look, and anyone you meet will tell you there is no time for anything anymore.”

Part of the reason I find this quote so fascinating is that Laura wrote this in 1924 when she was living in the country… on a farm in Missouri.

Fall is upon us and in the part of Idaho where I live that means cooler days, colored leaves twirling towards the ground, and holidays times fast approaching.