If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is a great game that my family sometimes played on Sunday nights, our designated family night. Here’s how you play.
What you need:
Bag of bite sized candy (M&Ms, Skittles, Reese’s Pieces, etc)
Paper grid with 25 squares (5×5)
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My husband read a parenting book written for fathers and the best thing he learned from that book was how to help your children grow up to be secure and independent people.
Contrary to intuition, the more attention and love you give your child during their infancy, the more independent they will be as children, teenagers, […]
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I put this poem in my son’s baby book with his 4 month foot print. I think it is so sweet!
Baby Feet by Edgar Guest
Tell me, what is half so sweet
As a baby’s tiny feet,
Pink and dainty as can be,
Like a coral from the sea?
Talk of jewels strung in rows,
Gaze upon those little toes,
Fairer […]
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I recently listened in on a lecture about infant attachment in a sociology class where I learned that secure attachment is developed during the first 6 months of life and happens when a child receives consistent love and care.
Responding to your infant’s cry is a very important part of creating secure parent/baby attachment. […]
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My sister recently told me about a series she started reading called “His Dark Materials,” by Phillip Pullman. She told me she liked the first book but just emailed me recently rescinding her recommendation after finding out some disturbing information about the rest of the series.
Apparently Pullman has used these books to promote his […]
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“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” –William Arthur Ward
Each night for the last several months my husband and I have taken a few minutes before bed to write down something that we’re grateful for or something that happened that day to let us know that […]
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Many families participate in a sports event on Thanksgiving. If you have an active and athletic family, a thanksgiving football or basketball game is fun.
For bad weather or something a little less physical, hold a family ping pong, pool, or bowling tournament.
Do a puzzle together.
Play card and board games.
The most important thing is to […]
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This is a section of George Washington’s First Thanksgiving Proclamation, given in New York City on October 3, 1789.
“Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficient author […]
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Put 5 kernels of corn next to each plate at the dinner table. Remind family members that on the first Thanksgiving, each person only had 5 kernels of corn to eat. Express gratitude for the abundance and prosperity of this great nation. Be thankful for how much food you have to eat.
[photo […]
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Take your family on a nature walk and appreciate the beauty of the earth. Express your gratitude for this land and our freedoms.
[photo from flickr.com]
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We always had Thanksgiving dinner at my grandparent’s house with as many members of extended family as could attend. Every year my grandma made her delicious cheese pie, my favorite and most memorable dessert to this day.
Food has a special power when it comes to memory making. For me, cheese pie doesn’t just […]
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To encourage your family to remember the true purpose of the Thanksgiving holiday, get a receipt roll for each person and make a list of all the things they are grateful for that reaches from floor to ceiling. If you can do it, you get a treat!
[picture from officeworld.com]
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My Kingdom by Louisa May Alcott
A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
For passion tempts and troubles me,
A wayward will misleads,
And selfishness its shadow casts
On all my words and deeds.
How can I learn to rule myself,
To be the child I should,
Honest and brave nor ever […]
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One of the best ways that coupons save you money is using them on clearance items. I have had the most success with this method at Target.
For example, one of Target’s coupons last week was $1 off 11-oz. or larger M&Ms candies. Target sold some pink and white M&Ms for Breast Cancer Awareness […]
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So far in my limited experience as a coupon clipper, I’ve found that online coupons offer great savings. Many of the Sunday paper coupons require that you buy 2 items to get $1.00 or something like that, which really doesn’t save you very much money, especially on those expensive name brand items. Also, you can […]
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Coupons can be great, but you have to be smart and careful. I recently subscribed to the local Sunday paper to try out their coupons to see if I will actually save money.I got my first paper on Sunday, and I wasn’t too impressed. There were only a few coupons for items that […]
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My son is getting his first tooth, which reminds me of an experience we had a while ago. When my son was first born, we had a neighbor come to visit with her runny-nosed child. The mother assured me that he wasn’t sick, just teething. THIS IS BALONEY. I asked my […]
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Baby teeth fall out in the same order they came in. If you have a child who is teething, print off this mouth/tooth chart for his baby book and keep track of the order in which his teeth come in. Then when he gets to the age when his baby teeth fall and […]
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“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
- Thomas Carlyle
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Last week my husband got us a nice leather office chair at a surplus sale for $2!! We’ve found tons of great stuff for practically nothing at college/university surplus sales. I think most schools have these sales to get rid of their outdated stuff, especially electronics and technology type items. We got a nice computer […]
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This is one of my all-time favorites. I love how the pages have holes where the caterpillar has eaten through and also how the pages start out really narrow on Monday and get wider and wider the more the caterpillar eats. The illustrations are also excellent. I think this book should be […]
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I’ve tried to get more organized lately, a never-ending task. It is a slow process, for sure. One thing that I really want to do better at is keeping the house cleaner from day to day, a goal that I’m sure I share with many fellow mothers. In the past, I haven’t […]
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I am a hopeless list maker. I love lists. However, my list making tends to get a bit wild and I find myself wandering around the house looking for the “right” list because I have so many of them. As of late I have grown a bit weary of having to scour […]
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I was talking with my sisters-in-law about parenting and chores, and one of them had a great idea. She said she had heard of people giving their children a new responsibility on their birthday. For example, starting on your child’s 5th birthday, he would then be responsible for making his own bed. […]
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