The Chirping Moms

Patriotic Recipes: A Fun Summer Drink for Kids

Patriotic Recipes: A Fun Summer Drink for Kids

This is a sponsored post for Juicy Juice, all thoughts and opinions are my own. We love making red, white and blue food and drinks for Memorial Day and 4th of July. Each year we make a few old favorites and like to try some new patriotic recipes too. This year we realized we never have patriotic colored drinks to… Read More

Mother’s Day Idea: Have a Virtual Tea Party

Mother’s Day Idea: Have a Virtual Tea Party

One group of people that I think quarantine is very hard for is Grandmothers. If they live close by, it’s not easy for them to skip what were frequent visits or to start having visits from 6+ feet away in the driveway to way hello. For grandmothers that live farther away, it’s really hard to cancel flight plans to visit… Read More

Introducing Edward Louis: A Birth Story

Introducing Edward Louis: A Birth Story

We introduced our sweet little 5th baby into our family last month. Edward Louis arrived on March 9th. He’s spent his first 6 weeks home with just the 6 of his family members getting love and snuggles around the clock. Edward, who we call Teddy came home the day before we all “came home” indefinitely. Today I’m sharing how he… Read More

25 Crafts, Activities and Snacks for St. Patrick’s Day

25 Crafts, Activities and Snacks for St. Patrick’s Day

By: Courtney Byrne St. Patrick’s Day is a favorite holiday in our house. Both my husband and I have Irish relatives so it’s both a festive holiday and a time for us to teach our kids about our family heritage. Each year I try and do some new crafts and activities with the kids and add some “green” to our… Read More

On Parenting for a Decade

On Parenting for a Decade

Today we celebrated Maggie. It’s her 10th birthday. It’s really hard to believe we have a 10 year old child, double digits, a whole decade. The years have absolutely flown by, just as everyone told me they would. It’s incredible to look at your child the day they are born, nothing  like it in the world. But it’s also really… Read More

Snowman Book and Craft: Easy Marshmallow Snowman

Snowman Book and Craft: Easy Marshmallow Snowman

We’ve done posts like this before: a book and a craft! You can do the craft without reading the book of course, but sometimes it makes it more fun for the kids to have a book to go along with what they’re making. During the long winter months, we also look for activities to take up a little more time… Read More

Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins Your Kids Will Love

Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins Your Kids Will Love

My kids would eat a bag of Entenmann’s chocolate chip mini muffins every day if I let them. Actually, they’d probably each eat two bags if I let them, which they couldn’t even do because the box doesn’t come with enough bags for each kids to get two (I’ve broken up fights over this fact). For a while now, I… Read More