Category: Family Life

  • Helping your child get her shoes on the right feet

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    Struggling with helping your child understand which shoe goes on which foot? I’ve got tool from the Toolbox for you! R’s and L’s won’t help if your child doesn’t know her letters, but kissing smiley faces will. Grab a pen and drew smiley faces on the inside rim of your child’s shoes at the same…

  • Graham Cracker Mangers

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    Last year I was looking for something fun for my son’s first grade class to do during their Christmas party. I wanted to stay in budget and along the lines of something Christian Christmas-y not Santa Christmas-y. I loved the idea of gingerbread house decorating, but that was both costly and, although cute, I  knew…

  • Transporting birthday goodies

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    We hosted my son’s last birthday party at a birthday party venue. Knowing that I would have to get to transport gifts home of different shapes and sizes, I carried a large plastic bin to the party for carrying most of the gifts home. In taking it to the party, I filled it with consumables:…

  • My Danish teenage daughter started American high school today…

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    Emma, our Danish daughter, just left for her first day of American high school. She is not my daughter, and yet, she is. I feel so excited for her, and yet have butterflies in my stomach, as I know she does, too. When I walk my own children (ages 3, 6 and almost 8 years)…

  • Blast away Boredom with a Scrapbook Party

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    Check back every Monday through Thursday for ideas to have more fun all summer long. Need more ideas? Try this one to get you set for anytime boredom sets in… On with today’s idea… Kids Scrapbook Party Gather some favorite vacation pictures and a few friends and host a scrapbook party to create some memory…