The day started off like any other Wednesday driving to school.
My five-year-old daughter was tucked safely into her car seat, quietly “reading” a book. The radio was turned low to a kid friendly station. My eyes were barely open, but everything was stable. No coffee yet, but I was so close. So close…
I almost had a nervous breakdown recently trying to get my 3 1/2 year old to take her first dose of antibiotics. For an easygoing kid, I have never seen her get so hysterical about something. It was awful! I honestly didn’t know what I was going to do or how I was going to get her to take it so I reached out to my Facebook followers for real mom tips on how to get kids to take medicine.
If you don’t already, please follow Tiny Oranges on Facebook, readers are seriously the best. Total wealth of mom to mom info on our Facebook page. Your tips worked and you all saved me from my breakdown. Thank you.
Here is what tips our moms had on how to get kids to take medicine. If you have more ideas, please comment below…
Since likely most of you have kids off school today and because I am ALWAYS looking for fun new places to go with my kids in OC, I wanted to share my team’s (Susanne, Christy & Aimee’s) favorite things to do with kids in Orange County to add some new ideas to the mix!
I don’t know about you, but my kids grow overnight. Literally. My “little” ones have always been on the tall side…frequenting one size for only a few precious months (or even weeks when they were babies!) before springing into the next, which is why I was so very excited to learn more about Oh Very Young children’s resale boutique in Long Beach – a family friendly shop run by a mom and her two daughters.
You can sell clothes, buy clothes and shop for fun accessories (hats or bows, anyone?) – all in fantastic shape and adorable. Oh, and browse lots of name brands.
Give these lovely ladies a call, make an appointment, and take your gently loved kiddo clothes in for their buy back program – they make it so easy and…
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! I hope you have a wonderful day in store with the ones you love. Today I am so excited to introduce you to Christy, one of our new contributing writers at Tiny Oranges!
I had Christy fill out a fun questionnaire to get to know her better.
Here is what she wrote…
Where were you born?
The Bay Area
What’s your sign?
Virgo (and I am a TRUE Virgo!)
How many kids? Ages?
Two little angels…a 5-year-old little girl and a 2.5-year-old little boy
Where do you live?