By Cheryl Bac
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About this blog: I'm a wife, stay-at-home mom, home cook, marathon runner, and PhD. I recently moved to the Silicon Valley after completing my PhD in Social Psychology and becoming a mother one month apart. Before that, I ran seven marathons incl...
(More)About this blog: I'm a wife, stay-at-home mom, home cook, marathon runner, and PhD. I recently moved to the Silicon Valley after completing my PhD in Social Psychology and becoming a mother one month apart. Before that, I ran seven marathons including Chicago and Boston. Exercise is an integral part of my life. I hope to one day go back to long distance running and tackle the New York City Marathon. Right now I run after my one year old son. Although I am a stay-at-home mom, we are rarely "at home." My mom also stayed at home with my brother and me. She warned me that, although rewarding, it can be isolating. So, with her help, I learned the importance of getting out into the community and meeting other mothers. On the rare occasion when I am at home and have a hand or two free, I squeeze in time to scrapbook. As a new mom, many challenges are thrown my way. I hope my opinions, triumphs, and struggles help experienced parents reminisce, new parents cope, and parents-to-be get an honest glimpse of what the first years of motherhood can entail.
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A few weeks ago I made
bubble solution with our kids. The hardest part was finding glycerin at the pharmacy. After that, it was easy enough that my preschooler could do most of the work.
Like little scientists, our kids had a lot of fun measuring the ingredients and trying out different recipes to see which works best. More glycerin, more dish soap, or even just letting the solution sit for a day or a week. Right now our favorite solution makes lots of bubbles all stuck together. In the future maybe we'll do a better job of accurately measuring and writing down what we did so we can make the better bubble solutions again and again.
While it might save some time and money to just buy a big jug of bubble solution, I wanted to do more than blow bubbles. I wanted to give our kids an opportunity to be creative and experiment a bit.
We had a lot of bubble solution afterwards so we used some of it to
blow bubbles with straws. And used some of the extra dish soap to make a
fun foam.
We've made a big mess, but when the mess is mainly dish soap, it feels a little less chaotic. And once all is cleaned up, I'm hoping the extra dish soap will make my kitchen table, floor and counter extra clean.
