This week Family Fun Friday features tips to create an easier morning routine, fantastic, fun and easy fall craft ideas and fall activities for kids, kid-friendly apple snacks, apple pie, oatmeal bars, and loads of apple recipes. We also have inspiring posts for cherishing family, finding rest, and creating laughter in your life. And you don't want to miss a $2,000 Cash Giveaway and a huge ... View Post
Archives for September 2014
Children’s Fingerprint Keepsake Family Tree Tutorial
One of my favorite ways to capture how small my children are now is to create children's fingerprint keepsakes like the one I'll be sharing in this tutorial. I love every craft that my children's tiny hands touch, and being able to capture their fingerprints and handprints is a wonderful way to create keepsakes that our family will treasure forever. This craft can easily be made into a kid's ... View Post
Over 1300 Pages of Alphabet Printable Letters and Activities
Yahoo! This post signifies the completion of over 1,300 pages of fun and colorful printables in our Learn to Read Preschool Alphabet Series. It's been work creating these printables but it's been lots of fun too. My boys have absolutely loved all of the activities, the cutting, coloring, blue-tack and glue. I've been challenged with how fast they learn and how quickly they complete activities ... View Post
Why I love MOPS
I started a one word devotional series awhile back and today I'd like to add to it with a really big word: Love. and a little about an organization known as MOPS, Mothers of Preschoolers. From Wikipedia Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to ... View Post
Family Fun Friday Week 86 and Easy Chicken Recipes
This week Family Fun Friday features organizing hacks you'll love, Fall kid's art, educational crafts for kids, tips on how to give kids some freedom while keeping them safe, loads of chicken recipe ideas like chicken enchilada, crispy chicken, and chicken teriyaki. Readers also have access to loads of free preschool homeschool printables like the entire alphabet and morning board printables, as ... View Post
Teaching Kids about Kindness
This summer our family experienced an event that meant our entire family would have to undergo rabies vaccinations {FB link}. It was bit of an ordeal but some really great things came from it. One of the unexpected benefits was that the experience taught our kids a few things about kindness. I love writing about stories that have happy endings, and I think this post not only offers tips on ... View Post