Moms are cool.

It’s almost Mother’s Day.  Now that we’re moms ourselves, the holiday has taken on a new significance.  This stuff is hard!

Mom’s are pretty incredible people.  They wipe our noses.  We throw up on them repeatedly & they don’t think we’re gross.  They stay up all night with us when we’re sick, check our homework & make us brush our teeth.

So in honor of mothers everywhere, we would like you to share the best thing about your mom.  Each & every “Ode to yo mama” will be posted on a special Mother’s Day blog.   One extra-special entry will receive a $25 gift certificate to duckduckgreen.com (*see below for details*)

Whether you want to share the winnings with your mom, or keep it for yourself… we’ll let you wrestle with that one.

Let’s hear it for moms!
-Maryann & Andrea

To enter, just email us a short anecdote (1oo word max) or even a few sentences.  Anything awesome about your mom.  Or simply send a picture of your mom looking rad, with a caption.

Please email your submission to info@duckduckgreen.com

Or post your comments on our FACEBOOK PAGE.

*Deadline Thursday, May 6th, high noon.

Liquid Fun in a Jar

I’m going to date myself here- when I was a kid, we rented a Betamax machine for my birthday party & watched ‘Splash’.  My parents were extreme late adopters.  We were probably the last family in Michigan to get a cordless phone or a microwave.  To me, that Betamax was like having a magical movie-robot in our house.

Fast forward to today: I find it a little odd that my 2 year old can play YouTube Muppet videos on the iPad all by himself.  Or that my 1 year old taps at my laptop screen impatiently, wondering why it doesn’t react like an iPhone.  So I admit I got a big Luddite-grin on my face when my son recently called “Mixing Colors” his favorite game.

This is such a simple project but so far it’s given my son hours & hours of technology-free fun.  Here’s the gist:

We’ve been trying to teach our son the concept of color mixing for weeks with very little success.  After one round of this game, he got it: when you mix colors, they make a new color.  Add more water & the colors get lighter.  Mix them all, you get brown.  And man, the excitement!  It was like the boy invented secondary colors.

Making forts out of couch cushions, avoiding the cracks in the sidewalk.. Good to know the oldies are still goodies.

-m

Looking for a fun book to teach toddlers about color mixing?  Mouse Paint rules.