Use this free printable to create your own Thankful Tree this Thanksgiving season! We like to make a Thanksgiving tree every year. I love putting it up and leaving the tags out with some markers so the girls (and my husband and I) can write down things we are grateful for on a daily basis…
How to host a kids book club on the book Wonder by RJ Palacio. Invitations, activity ideas, discussion questions, and more. 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! This summer my middle daughter chose the…
How to make motherhood just a little easier by doing a few simple things to keep you organized So many have asked about my planner: 1) It’s a planner specifically designed for moms and can be purchased HERE. 2) Yes, I love it, and it’s totally worth the money. 2023 update: Now these planners are very…
Our Epic Vacation: Day 8 We awoke on Day 8 at Mimi and Papa’s house in Sandy, Utah. We did a final pack-up of everything we needed for the next leg of our epic vacation and stuffed the rest of it into their basement storage room. My father-in-law then drove us to the airport in our van…
As of today (November 2013), 3/5 of our little family is completely gluten-free. The other 2/5 eat an almost gluten-free diet simply because it’s easier, but also because I suspect they are both sensitive to gluten like the rest of us. The real problem is that one of them is a teenager who doesn’t want to be…
It’s time to take the Halloween decorations down and start putting up Thanksgiving decor. I liked the idea of decorating with printables in frames so much for Halloween, that I decided to make some for Thanksgiving, too. I fell in love with this quote when I first saw it somewhere, so I decided to use…
Last night we had the beginning of our Halloween celebrations for the year: Trick-or-treating downtown at Treat Street. I always say that I get crappy pictures from Treat Street, but this year took the cake. It was dark and ominous weather, and we got there a lot later than we usually do, so the light…
Never fear, my children did not attend church today in their Halloween costumes. As far as good photos of all the children go, I realized Halloween night was probably not going to be a good night for photos with the craziness of school and homework thrown into the mix. So I had the brilliant idea…
I love Halloween. And I love decorating for Halloween almost more than I love the holiday itself! I especially love to have a fun Halloween wreath on the front door, but I haven’t had a good one in a while. I have become so bored of my Halloween decorations this year. I even left a…
Yesterday (well, since it’s now past midnight, two days ago), my oldest daughter turned the big one three. Thirteen. What has my life come to? I am not old enough to have my own teenager! I feel like I just finished teenage-hood myself! But this post isn’t about me and the way I like to freak out…
Free printable for Halloween “I love you more than candy corn.” So I’m on a diet. Which means I need to be RESISTING candy corn. Which is really hard because it is my favorite candy on earth. And now we have candy corn flavored M&Ms to resist, as well. Fortunately, they are not quite as…
A back-to-school feast and family theme is a great way to kick off the school year for your kids. This tradition is something they look forward to every year and helps them to be excited to go back to school. Yesterday was Labor Day, which for us means that school starts tomorrow! Which also means…