Mother's Day is approaching quickly. And while it isn't your responsibility (if you're the mom reading), someone in your house might need a little help and inspiration.

Below you'll find a number of tips on Mother's Day gifts on a budget. Obviously, this is NOT for your hubby, he should still give you expensive jewelry... ;-)

But for children, or someone helping your kids to celebrate MOM, these tips can come handy. (Many of them apply for Father's Day too, of course.)

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• Take WOW Baby Pictures
• Mother's Day on a budget
• New Nursing Dresses
• New at the Baby Help Line

Take WOW Baby Pictures

I've just written a review about an ebook that I really love (well, most of it). It is written by a photographer and teaches how to take really good photos of a baby and toddler.

It's a long book (75 pages) and takes a while to go through. But very helpful.

Read more about it here:

http://www.easybabylife.com/baby-pictures.html

Mother's Day on a budget

Know someone who needs a little help with Mother's Day (or Father's Day) gifts? These tips may be useful.

As I am sure you know, children usually love to make and give gifts to us parents. I lost track of all the drawings I've received a long time ago. Our youngest, a 2 year old, right now gives me drawings of "nice sharks" every day. Very cute.

Here are some other things that younger children might enjoy giving to mom or dad:

* Dad can make breakfast for mom and the younger child can bring it to mom's room and surprise her. Or even just be the one announcing breakfast, if the child is too young to carry anything. Decorating mom's plate with flowers can also be fun.

* Make Mother's Day signs and hang them around the home.

* Write a letter to Mom on colorful paper.

* Make a Mother's Day card.

* Dad can go online and print out a Mother's Day template for kids to color and present to mom.

* The kids may offer to do certain chores for a week.

* If age appropriate, the kids could make signs and glue them on to t-shirts.

* Use construction paper to make a hanging sign spelling out the word love.

* Slightly older children can really enjoy creating necklaces and similar with beads.

* Painting and decorating a photo frame and have dad put in a picture of the child.

* Give mom a red rose and place it in her favorite vase

* Dad and the children can bake her a cake and sing "Happy Mother’s Day To You"

Older children can do a bit more. For some ideas, they might need some money (or or they have their own):

* Take mom out for lunch

* Buy her favorite CD

* Give her a box of her favorite chocolates

* Take her to the park for a picnic lunch

* Clean the house

* Bake her a cake or favorite cookies

* Take her to a movie

* Buy her favorite bath oil and some candles

* Make a special card using the computer

* Buy her a gift certificate to her favorite store

* Make a bag of potpourri using dried flowers from the garden

* Put together a scrapbook with her favorite recipes

Hope this gave you some inspiration. Make sure you forward the tips to whoever needs them!

New Nursing Dresses

Want to add a new nursing dress to your wardrobe now when summer is on its way? We have added and reviewed some new ones. Have a look!

http://www.easybabylife.com/nursing-dresses.html

New at the Baby Help Line

Here is a small selection of all the questions we've answered at the Baby Help Line this month:

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http://www.easybabylife.com/feeding-issues-with-my-8-month-old.html

http://www.easybabylife.com/too-much-feeding-at-night.html

http://www.easybabylife.com/twins-with-cold.html

http://www.easybabylife.com/i-have-2-kids-and-have-to-do-everything-myself.html





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