Making Me Mommy: Make Your Own No Skid "Grippy" Socks

Wanted: Tips for Being The Best Stay At Home Mom I Can Be

Being a stay at home mom is the hardest job I have ever had - yet it's by far the best. I started staying home about eleven months ago, with my then eight month old daughter. I thought I was going to have oodles of free time as she napped and we would have tons of time to play together. Little did I know naps aren't a given no matter how much you work to have a stable schedule. However making breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as doing the laundry, keeping up with my housework and all the house hold errands are a given. Yup, staying home was a bigger job then I realized and wanting the best for my daughter meant I needed to brush up on my preschool lessons as well as my ability to make a variety of meals that could provide my family with healthy options. I started adjusting to the demands and doing what I felt was a good job and really got into a nice groove right about the time my second daughter came along. Things got busier and I have been feeling my way through life as a stay at home mom. We have a schedule that works for us - and now that I live this life, I wouldn't want it any other way for me and my family. As a previous career woman I have a huge respect for both at home moms and at work moms and my goal is to share some of the things that make my life as a mommy easier - from recipes to crafts I hope what we do in our home can make it to your home and you'll enjoy it!

My daily posts include fun activties I am doing in real time with my kiddos, dinners I am making for my family, snacks, and some fun things I discover along the way. I hope they are things other moms can use as tips rather than recreating the wheel. Let me know what you think and lets share some tips because nothing is better than bragging about what you and your little ones can do together!

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Make Your Own No Skid "Grippy" Socks

Make Your Own No Skid "Grippy Socks

Perfect for Toddlers

Having a toddler at home is always busy and with cool weather dancing on my door step I have been looking for new skid socks for my 19 month old. She tends to slide around the hardwoods with her regular socks and I certainly don't want her taking a dive and hurting herself. I have been shopping around for new skid socks but was surprised by how expensive they can be, so that go me thinking - couldn't I make these really quickly and very easily for far less money? The answer was yes I could. So I walked into the craft section of my local Walmart and found puff paint - a container of it cost $.94, then I bought a package of 6 socks (I got some thicker athletic socks so I knew her feet would be cozy warm). The socks cost me $4.96. When I got home, I wrote on the bottom of the socks with the puff paint. For some I wrote her name (as pictured), for others I did polka dots - what you write doesn't matter you just need the texture for gripping. This took a total of about 2 minutes to do all six pairs, I allowed them to dry then flipped them over and did the other side. As easy as that I now have six pair of grippy socks for $6 - and plenty of paint for more should my little one's feet grow this winter or the drier eat them (which happens at my house from time to time).

Here's a tip - this could be a really fun project for kids to make their own socks, with your help. It may save your floors from shoes and could be a fun low cost project to break up your day.

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Making My Path, My Road to Becoming Mommy

I guess we are all works in progress, some of us start out on a path and follow it straight, while others take many twists and turns. My life seems to be one with a few twists and turns, so far all for the better, and all leading me to who I am today. I am Jennifer, mom of two girls ages 19 months and 4 months. I always knew I wanted to be a mom, but never seemed to meet the person I was supposed to be mom with, and wondered would it ever be? Then in 2009 I met an amazing man and right away I knew he was the person I would be with forever. There was a lot of reasons people would have thought I was crazy - like the fact that he lived in California and I lived in Massachusetts but from the first night we met there was that instant spark. After dating for a couple of months he moved to Rhode Island (he is in the military and was planning the move when we met), we were engaged five months after meeting - married ten months after meeting - and moved again, this time together, fifteen months after meeting. It was a world wind, and I still can't believe how quickly time has passed. Our biggest milestone was the birth of our first daughter. She arrived shortly after we settled in to our life in Nebraska. She has been amazing and every second with her has been wonderful. I attempted to return to work three months after she was born, but it was more difficult than I expected. I made it six months as a working mom, there are days I miss it but all in all I know I am where my heart is at this point in my life. My husband was promoted and we learned another move was in our sights so this made the decision to stay home a little easier for me. All this happened just about the time I also learned we were expecting baby number two! Pregnancy came and went - although with my second it felt like it stuck around a little longer than it did the first time. I guess when you have two so close together you feel like you have been pregnant for years, basically because you have been. Now I am a mom of two. I have my days where I feel like I have conquered the world and my days where I feel like the world has conquered me (for some reason that seems to happen on the days I attempt grocery shopping with both of them before nap time - you'd think I would learn this doesn't work) but I am a work in progress. I hope someday I will be a mom of three - believe it or not, but for now I am enjoying my two little ladies. I am setting up this blog because I wanted to have a place to share some of my ideas. Some may be good and you may be able to use them, some may be bad and you may be able to laugh at them. I love to cook for my family and enjoy working on preschool activties and DIY projects and crafts around the house. I am hoping to share some of what I do with others along the way. Getting all of these ideas down is going to take time, thats what will make me mommy - hence the name, but hopefully you'll check in along the way.