For you, Sarah

So, Sarah, you want to see my little "Cozy activity station".  

Here it goes:

Cozette is one of those busy kids. She always has to be doing something...or at least involved in what the rest of us are doing. This is so very different from the child right behind her, who is a lazy kid. He's happy to sit and "do nothing" (which usually means, sit and think about things that entertain him) or even just sit and make annoying noises for the rest of us to enjoy. I could offer him any number of activities...and he would pass.

That's why it's a Cozy station and not a "little kid station".

I put everything at that little table that I keep planning to get rid of...and then I realize that we do actually need/use it.

Lots of things to do, with the craft drawer and the playdough nearby in the kitchen buffet.

She has her "school books" to color in, along with crayons, pencils, and markers.

I like to grab seasonal stuff from the $1 section at Target or little things to paint from Michaels/AC Moore.

The little sewing machine is also over there, on the window ledge. That, however, is more of a "Mommy and me" activity. (I hide the pedal to make sure.)

For the record, I would put the little table up against the wall to the left....

....but then the cat uses it to reach my cuckoo clock! He's naughty.