We aren’t big football fans. In fact, we never watch football games. I watched a ton of football when I was a kid — my parents both love to watch it — and I enjoy a good game, but it’s just not something we do now. But we do watch the Super Bowl. Or at […]
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Twenty-Six Days
The biggest gift I am giving my family this year for Christmas wasn’t purchased in a store. It wasn’t ordered online. It wasn’t even anything they asked for. Not directly, anyway. But now that I’ve given them this gift, I realize it was something they wanted. And something they needed. In fact, it was something […]
An Awesome (and easy) Thanksgiving Tradition To Start With Your Family This Year
A friend of mine — Eileen from Little Acorn Learning — posted this picture of her Thanksgiving table last year: I thought those cards were such a nice idea. What a great way to encourage interaction and kindness around the Thanksgiving table! This year I really wanted to do something similar. So I made some templates […]
Why Are You Acting Unusual?
The other day, the kids were a little bit out of control. We were coming off of a three day swim meet, they had been dragged back and forth to a pool that was almost an hour away all weekend, I had been gone for basically three days, and everyone was exhausted. So I took […]
A Simple, Affordable and Super Cute Way To Celebrate Your Kid’s Birthday
It’s no secret how I feel about over-the-top birthday parties. I hate them. That doesn’t mean I don’t think everyone deserves some kind of celebration on their birthday. Of course they do! But if you are like me, if you are on a budget, if you have more than one kid, if you have a crazy schedule, if you […]
21 days to establish a new habit, right? WRONG!
We’ve all seen that quote — So that’s just three weeks. Right? Wrong! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!!! That quote — the one that says it takes 21 days to form a new habit — is actually kind of a misquote. A quote that has mutated. Back in the 1950’s, a plastic surgeon named Maxwell Maltz noticed a […]