I am trying a new idea this month. I got it off this site. Since Valentines day is in February I usually like to make the whole month focused on love. Not the kind of love that buys stuff and is full of commercialized things but the kind of love that comes from Christ. I have tried various ideas in the…
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I was given this little pumpkin along with this instruction card years ago at a scrapbooking retreat. We made the activity a tradition every year here. It has been one of the funnest traditions we have during the fall season at our house. It is called the Harvest Pumpkin This little tiny pumpkin that fits in the palm of our hands…
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I thought I would share a tradition that we do at our house each harvest season that my family really looks forward to. It is called “thankful leaves.” This year we made our leaves into a tree. Usually we decorate our school room with the leaves all over the walls. Either way works but we sure had fun growing our…
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This has been such a fun year for celebrating harvest. We don’t celebrate Halloween around here but we do have family traditions that get the whole family together and create lasting memories to commemorate the Fall season. I thought I would share what we have been up to in the midst of unpacking and getting settled in our new house….
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When Fall rolls around I always look forward to picking fresh apples and then turning them into tasty, sweet desserts. Since I was a little girl my family and I always had a tradition of going to the local mountain town to pick apples and enjoy the cool, crisp fall air. As I grew up there were less u-pick apple…
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Today we did an activity that I found in my June Thriving Family magazine. I love this magazine. Focus on the family creates it and they are now offering subscriptions for FREE! If you don’t get it I highly recommend that you subscribe to it. During the summer TF Magazine usually has a couple pages that have a calendar on them and a summer…
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Palm Sunday: A Family Tradition of Re-enactment Children love to role play and re-enact what they read. In our house, it’s pretty common to see our boys running around with capes, helmets, and swords pretending to be their favorite superhero. What I love about re-enacting Palm Sunday is that it builds muscle memory in their brains of what the remembrance…
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I told you the other day that I would post another one of my favorite birthdays and I am keeping my promise! When my son turned 3 he was really into Veggie Tales. You know, Bob the tomato, Larry the cucumber, Junior Asparagus and Larry boy. I figured that I would throw him a Veggie tales birthday party to celebrate him. I…
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** Even though I eat Grain Free, Gluten Free, Refined Sugar Free, Dairy Free and Legume free now, I am leaving this post here to let you see where I started. Eating Gluten Free was the initial change to my diet and my journey in that is written about here.** I realize this title is a bit dramatic (because there…
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All these birthdays got me thinking about two birthday parties that were really special and fun to me. One of them was thrown as a milestone party for me; an amazing luau party I am going to tell you about in this post. The other one I am going to tell you about in a few days is a Veggie Tales birthday…
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The season is upon us! The season to reflect and remember Jesus’ birth. What a privilege that our country recognizes and gives us a national holiday to remember this. Even though it has become ridiculously commercialized and a lot of people don’t really know what CHRISTmas is about anymore – (they think it’s about) presents, food, etc… the origin is Christian. …
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Three years ago today I was up in the wee hours of the morning taking two hour shifts with my husband watching TV through the night. We were keeping up on the all-consuming brushfires that seemed to be burning all over the place. It was an eerie feeling. I remember hearing the wind howling outside and seeing our house shake…
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My Parenting Fail: A Lesson is Perseverance From My Son Do you ever feel like you’ve completely blown it with your kids? You might have woken up with the attitude and intent on handling everything in a mild, patient and gentle manner that day but then your kids wake up and real life starts happening all around you! Your positive…
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