An easy solution for saving your food budget during the summer! Limit snacking with this simple trick and teach your kids self-discipline in the process. Do your kids eat you out of house and home during summer vacation? Because mine totally do. Something about being home all day without a regimented school schedule leads kids…
These easy-to-read chapter book series are perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade kids who are ready for bigger books. This post is part of an ongoing Summer Reading for Kids series. Click HERE to find ideas for reading activities, reading lists, and reading incentives…and keep checking back for more! My youngest daughter was reading really well…
Make your English Trifle taste amazing while still using boxed ingredients. Happy 4th of July! One of our family traditions on the 4th (and Memorial Day as well) is to have a patriotic trifle. And I know I’m not alone in that. Something about red strawberries, white whipped cream, and blue blueberries lends itself pretty…
We went shopping a couple of weeks ago and my oldest daughter fell in love with a pair of denim shorts that had patriotic stars and stripes printed on them. We didn’t get them for a couple of reasons: 1) They were ridiculously expensive for so little material 2) I told her we could make…
July’s Visiting Teaching Message is The Divine Mission of Jesus Christ: Advocate. Can I just say that I am really loving the focus on The Savior this year in our Visiting Teaching? I say this, because this month’s focus—Jesus Christ as Advocate—is something I don’t think about as much when thinking of Christ. It’s something…
Unbelievably moist muffins made with vanilla yogurt, bananas, and blueberries. Just before school was out I decided to make some muffins for the girls’ lunches. It was towards the end of the week and grocery shopping needed to be done, but our bank account wasn’t quite ready for that yet (I don’t even want to…
As usual, my children are my greatest teachers. My oldest just started to run track this year. She got a late start, because most of her peers have been doing it a couple years longer than her, but that didn’t deter her at all. Plus, like me, she has exercise-induced asthma, and running track is…
This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group® and Sharpie, but all my opinions are my own. My laundry room is a dungeon. At least, it was until I painted it a bright, sunny yellow. Now it’s only a semi-dungeon. It’s down in our unfinished 100-year-old basement, and…
Ever since I spent a summer performing in Nauvoo, Illinois, I have been a huge Church History Fan. I absolutely love hearing the stories of faith and the experiences that the early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had. Curious about how I ended up as a performer in Nauvoo? Click…
This post is part of an ongoing Summer Reading for Kids series. Click HERE to find ideas for reading activities, reading lists, and reading incentives…and keep checking back for more! Our last day of school was last Thursday. So, naturally, Friday morning we had a little Summer Kick-off Party. My husband made a delicious breakfast of bacon, eggs,…
Everyone knows I’ve been waiting forever for summer. And it’s finally here! Yesterday was the last day of school. And, of course, the weather didn’t much act like summer since it was rainy and cold, but who cares? No more getting up at 6:00 in the morning to make lunches and sign papers and herd…
I really wanted to have a little herb garden in my backyard this summer. A couple of summers ago, I tried to plant an herb garden in the ancient garden bed in the corner of my backyard, but the very day I got my cute little herbs planted a gigantic maple tree fell on them….