Mothers Day
Gift Ideas for Celebrating Year Round
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Whew, what a Mother's Day this year's was. By noon, I'd already had so much activity, I had wished I could go back to bed. But, LOL, I did survive the day with enough residual energy to write about today.
Daddy was working all day today, so I was up early this morning driving in pajamas to take the two boys to join their friends for a paint ball outing with our synagogue's youth group. By 8 am I was home again, met by my triplet daughters who were arguing in the kitchen about who was going to make lunch for me on this special day. The bickering -- no surprise -- persisted until Dad came home from work this evening. After finally getting the kids to bed, I still managed to call and talk to my own mom to say, "I love you," as well as to finish and publish this blogpost.
The holiday that celebrates all mothers may officially be today (and over in some parts of the U.S. by now), but I don't think too many moms would disagree with me that Mother's Day for us is really every day. What's more is that just about all of us, I'm willing to bet, wouldn't want to have it any other way. Here is the first in a series of posts spotlighting MommyBlogExpert 's 2010 picks for gifts that mothers everywhere will love any day of the year not just for Mother's Day. Other posts in the weeks to come will showcase things moms and kids can enjoy together to make more memories both indoors and outside.
What mommy doesn't wish she could spend more quality time with her kids? Here are but a few of the many great gift ideas that will truly engage mom and the whole family, starting in the heart of the home: the kitchen...a place where almost everyone has at least a special memory or two of spending time with mom.
Create some more happy moments with your own kids year-round with any of these novel ideas - Kuhn Rikon Cookie & Cupcake Decorating Set
- Bean Appetit
- Naturally Nora
- Soups - A Kosher Collection
- From My Mama's Kitchen
- Handstand Kids Chinese Cookbook
- Enlightened Chocolate
Kuhn Rikon Cookie & Cupcake Decorating set, made in Switzerland, comes 5 plastic, washable decorating bottles & caps in 2 different sizes, 5 stainless-steel decorating tips, 1 Frosting Spatula. is the perfect starter kit for the mom who likes to cook with her kids. This product comes boxed with all the tools needed to beautify cookies, cupcakes, and other decorative foods that are perfectly sized for moms and children to have fun creating together. Directions for use are included. Available at FactoryDirect2You and other specialty and online retailers. $25
Bean Appetit: Hip & Healthy Ways to Have Fun With Food, by Shannon Payette Seip and Kelly Parthen, makes it fun and healthy for moms and their kids to play with their food -- together! Based on some of the most popular items from Bean Sprouts, the authors' healthy kids' cafe and cooking school. With its unique Bean Appetit Flour Blend that incorporates wheat flour, unbleached all-purpose flour, wheat germ, and flax meal, to its Pot Sticker Pinwheels made with pot sticker wrappers, chicken, avocado, veggies, and herbs, it's no wonder that this book received the 2010 Mom's Choice Award. $14.99
The Naturally Nora line of all natural cake, frosting, and brownie mixes are the brain child of mom Nora Schultz, mom of two and former Campbell Soup Company executive. These all contain no transfats or artificial ingredients. The Naturally Nora Sunny Yellow Cake Mix, for example, contains only 8 ingredients which is only half the things that go into a similar box of Betty Crocker's cake mix. But healthy doesn't necessarily have to be boring because Nora's assortment is not only better for kids it comes in fun and colorful varieties such as Alot'a Dots and all the brand's offerings are kosher. Naturally Nora comes in packaging that utilizes recycled materials and vegetable-based inks and is available in a growing number of stores.
Handstand Kids Chinese Cookbook, by Yvette Garfield, is a fun and educational book that teaches children about Chinese culture and includes recipes to make some related ethnic dishes. Illustrated with a cast of characters that also appear in Garfield's Italian cookbook for kids, it intertwines a vocabulary section where various kitchen tools and common ingredients are pictured and spelled out in both English and Chinese characters. Each recipe included in the spiral bound book is rated 1, 2, 3, or 4 sets of chopsticks to indicate level of difficulty, with "1 set of chopsticks" meaning that kids can do most of the steps involved by themselves and "4 sets of chopsticks" signifying that an adult needs to help with the entire recipe.
FTC Disclosure: For this gift idea blogpost, Mommy Blog Expert received the products from companies mentioned for test, review and/or to giveaway to this blog's readers. MommyBlogExpert was neither paid nor received other compensation from any company mentioned in this post.
