We received quite a few votes from our Friday poll.  But, we can only have one winner.  The winning tip for how to entertain your children this summer is:

A lazy mom doesn’t spend the time filling up water balloons for a five second fight in the back yard – she buys regular household sponges and two big buckets with water and lets the kids have a sponge fight! (saves on the clean up time too – no little balloon pieces to pick up.) submitted by Tamara H.

Congrats, Tamara.  …

We have a long 3 months ahead of us and keeping our kids entertained will keep the Lazy Mom sane!  Here are the top 5 suggestions for how to keep the kids entertained:

What’s the best tip?

A lazy mom doesn’t spend the time filling up water balloons for a five second fight in the back yard – she buys regular household sponges and two big buckets with water and lets the kids have a sponge fight! (saves on the clean up time too – no little balloon pieces to …

If you follow us on Twitter you saw that we were headed to wine club on Thursday night. What is wine club you ask? Well, it’s just THE BEST THING EVER!! When some friends and I came up with the idea of starting a wine club, Lazy Dad Philip’s response was, “Oh, so you’re finally just calling bunco what it is?” That is one perceptive man!

Wine club is a group of friends that get together once a month. We rotate hosting duties. The hostess picks a theme and provides all …

It doesn’t have to be perfect to invite friends into your home. We have been saying this over and over this week, yet it still bears repeating. Let it go! Invite someone over and enjoy being together.

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We are excited to be partnering with Semi Homemade with Sandra Lee! We will be cooking one of Sandra’s recipes each month. The last Thursday of each month will be designated as Sandra Lee Day. Sandra Lee will provide us with a recipe and instructions. The Lazy Moms will lead you step by step through the recipe, feed our families, and report back to you, our readers.

Be sure to visit our Lazy Mom Amazon Store! We have Sandra’s cookbooks available as well as a …

I have been blessed.  All of my adult life has been spent in the same city with all of my family and all of my husbands family.  Until August.  Everything changed.  We moved to a new city.  And now I have house guests. 

This is new territory for me.  I am fumbling my way through, figuring out how to be the “hostess with the mostess”.  This last week my 2 sisters, their combined 5 kids and my Mom all came to stay with us for spring break.   Now, even though I call myself …

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Some of the best times we have had at friends house have been the most impromtu and the most casual. Invite another family over, make a salad, and order a pizza. It can be that easy.

It’s Ten Minute Task Tuesday here at Lazy Moms and you know what that means. I set my timer and get to work! We were having some friends over for dinner so I decided to make a quick and easy dessert for the kids. I knew this would take more than ten minutes. The recipe said 15 minutes prep time. So, like any good Lazy Mom I cheated a little bit.

I got out all of my ingredients (except for the milk) and pre-washed my berries:

The first thing I did was …

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Sometimes we don’t do the obvious. Why is that? I remember the first time I saw my mother set her dining table for a dinner party. I was so confused because she did it two days before the party. My confusion won’t shock some of you as you know that I tend to procrastinate. However the older I get the smarter my mother gets. Funny how that happens. So ladies, set your table the day before your guests are due to arrive. That’s one less thing for you …

Sandy is the author of the popular Reluctant Entertainer blog where she helps women to push past their fears in entertaining, realizing that things don’t have to be perfect to invite guests in! She encourages women to enjoy the blessings that come by giving of themselves and reaching out to others. Her blog focuses on simple approaches to entertaining, domestic ideas in the home, cooking, canning and gardening. She also has a unique girls group called Balcony Girls that brings Sandy and others great joy!

Sandy is a wife and mother …