Friends & Family

Fun Recycled Craft Ideas

by Angel 13 August 2010

Along with our efforts to become more environmentally friendly as a family, I’ve been reading up on some fabulous recycled craft ideas. I think we probably all made birdhouses from milk cartons as children, and that’s still one of my fondest early crafting memories. But there are so many more fabulously inventive family craft ideas [...]

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Ways Your Family Can Go Green

by Angel 12 August 2010

Lately I’ve been feeling like our family isn’t making enough of an effort to conserve, recycle & reuse so I’m on the hunt for easy tips and great ideas. I really want to find truly easy ways to do more. Trying to change the habits of an entire household isn’t easy and I’m sure I’ll [...]

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Camping Games

by Shelby 5 August 2010

When the weather is nice take advantage of your child’s energy by enjoying some outdoor games when camping. These will keep the kids busy on your next campout with these fun ideas! Flashlight Tag One child is “it.” He waits near the “jail” and counts off to 50. Children hide and at the end of the count “it” starts [...]

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Why You Should Teach Your Kids to Cook

by Angel 19 July 2010

The last few days we’ve had so much fun posting kid friendly recipes and we’re going to be cooking up more fun all week! I hope you’re enjoying cooking with your kids as much as we are. There’s something so comforting about cooking that just says ‘family’ to me. Foods have so much memory don’t [...]

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Helping with the family garden

by Angel 6 July 2010

We have such a great garden this year, and I think I know why. All the extra attention from our little Tristan! He loves to help water the plants and look for ripe tomatoes and peppers to pick. OK, so he usually ends up playing in the water hose afterwards, but we all have a [...]

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Pajama Party Invites for your Princess with FREE download!

by Angel 16 June 2010

How is your family’s summer going? It seems like the kids are barely out of school before boredom sets in and everyone’s in full swing planning activities to beat the boredom. Around our house sleepovers have always been a favorite! What’s not to love about staying up all night giggling with a few of your [...]

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Kids Vacation Savings Bank

by Anna 8 June 2010

When my children were young I quickly learned that one of the biggest expenses not fully budgeted for the family vacations were the “souvenirs”. All Kids like to shop and spend in those fun gift shops to take home some souvenirs of those places visited. It’s not just in one shop they like to spend…but [...]

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Family helpers: Create a chore board for daily tasks!

by Anna 28 May 2010

Mom…I’m bored…what can we do fun today? Sounds familiar… With summer approaching and schools getting out we have vacations, family reunions, holidays activities, and fun day to day activities to plan to keep the kids busy during these summer vacation months. We all are looking for quick and easy tips to help us figure those [...]

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Grandma’s Christmas Present

by Jacque 20 November 2009

When it is my turn to host Thanksgiving dinner I always like to have a craft projects for the kids to do while the adults are preparing and cleaning up the meal. And while I’ve already given one craft project idea I’d like to share another. I usually try to have the children make Christmas [...]

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Learning with Letters

by Jacque 23 October 2009

When my son was little, he used to love playing with words. He would spend large amounts of time at Grandma’s refrigerator arranging the magnetic letters, or downstairs with the wooden blocks spelling out the words that he knew. Since then, he has continued to do these same things whenever he can. He still loves [...]

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