Camp Mama

Eeek! We have two more weeks until school starts. All of the VBS and summer camps are over, leaving us the freedom to stay in our pajamas with nowhere to go and, since it's August, possibly losing our marbles (okay my marbles) because there isn't a lot we can do outside in the afternoons (besides pour a large glass of chilled white at 4pm).  Enter Camp Mama, or when I go out and invest in stuff from the Dollar Store and Michaels and we attempt to do craft ideas and fun activities to keep our sanity.  I'll be sharing some ideas the next few posts.  I always see mom bloggers posting these elaborate ideas for crafts that look far too difficult for a lazy simpleton like myself.  I am going to focus on cheap and easy stuff that even this mama can do and that have kept my boys entertained (ages 4 and 2).  Here is what we did yesterday and today:

Free summer movies at Alamo Drafthouse.  Our friend Kim stayed at home with our collective two babies and our two two year-olds and I took our big boys to the movies.  Yes, I got the "easy" deal on this one.  Thank you, Kim.  Anyway, Alamo movie.  Mama gets an iced coffee.  JM and Rhys get root beer.  The Alamo gets $20 of our hard-earned money toward their "free" movie.  Everyone wins!

Genius idea stolen from pre-school.  Foam blocks leftover from a large appliance purchase, $3 worth of colored golf tees and some toy hammers= hours of fun!