1. Take advantage of your public library! Most libraries have storytime or something similar for children.
2. Go to the park! It’s a great way to entertain your little ones and let them interact with other children.
3. Go on a walk or a bike ride! Most kids love being outside. It doesn’t matter how fussy my baby is– when I put her in a stroller and walk her down the street, she is happy! She also loves to take the lead and walk around with her mommy and daddy following her.
4. Put on some music and dance! It’s okay to act silly sometimes. Besides, it’s good exercise for everyone.
5. Go swimming! Don’t have a pool around you? Break out the water hose, and let them play around a sprinkler.
6. Arts & crafts! There are a million arts and crafts activities you can do with your little ones. Check out this article called “Crafts by Age” at http://familycrafts.about.com/od/craftprojectsbyage/Crafts_by_Age.htm
7. Movie night! Watch a movie you already have, or head to the library and check one out.
8. Put on a play, puppet show, fashion show, or concert to show the family! Kids love to be creative. If your kids are too young to write their own script, have them sing songs and prepare dances. (Reader’s Theater Scripts @ http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm)

1. Do a traditional Easter egg hunt in your yard but put nuts or Easter stickers inside the eggs instead of chocolate and candy.
2. Get out your fingerpaints! You can make little baby chicks using your thumbprints as their body. Try making an Easter bunny with your fingerprints as his ears.
3. Read an Easter story together.
4. Make Easter bunny ears using a headband and construction paper.
5. Draw Easter cards for family and friends. Inside, write an Easter poem or write a cute saying like ”Somebunny wanted to say, ‘Happy Easter!’”
6. Print out some Easter coloring pages from a website such as this one: http://www.coloring-page.net/easter.html
7. Cut out 10 Easter eggs out of thick white paper. Divide the eggs into 5 pairs. Each pair should be decorated the same way. Then, mix them up and place them in 2 rows of 5 face down. Play the memory game.
8. Have a bunny hop race with the whole family.

1. Apply some moisturizer lightly. Putting on too much before you add foundation can cause it to cake up.
2. Apply a foundation such as CoverGirl’s TruBlend (my personal favorite) and blend it into your skin. If your foundation tends to cake up on your face, add some water to your sponge first. Then, apply powder with a brush. (A brush prevents lines that you would have to go back and smooth out!)
3. Smooth a line of dry eye shadow along your lash line onto your eyelids only. Moving up to your brow is time consuming and more of a “night look.”
4. Apply eyeliner to the bottom rim of your eyelids. You can do the top if you have time.
5. Curl your lashes and apply a coat of mascara.
6. Use an eyebrow brush to clean up the look of your brows.
7. Apply colored lip gloss. Lip gloss goes on easier than lipstick, and you won’t have to check your teeth.
8. Powder your nose.

That’s it! A simple but elegant “day look” for all you mommies on the go! Whether you are at home, at the office, or in the car in the parking lot at your child’s school… try this quick and easy make-up routine.