Hero Training! Kid’s Character Challenge – Week 8 – Truthful
It’s the last week of Hero Training! Woo! What a blast! This week is all about being truthful. I don’t know about you, but in our family telling the truth is very serious business. K knows that lying will get him in big trouble, so it was great to use this time to dig a…
Read MoreAdvent Snacks (Truth in the Tinsel Supplement) Days 1-6
*Affiliate links included* It’s December 1st, can you believe it?! I’m so excited because that means it’s Truth in the Tinsel time! This is our first year participating in TNT and I know it’s going to be awesome! We did our first ornament today and K was begging to go on to the next day! In…
Read MoreHero Training! Kid’s Character Challenge – Week 7 – Patience
I can’t believe we only have two weeks of Hero Training left! We will be finishing up just in time for you to start your Advent activities (are you doing Truth in the Tinsel?). This week we are working on a much needed virtue around here – patience! If you haven’t read the introduction to…
Read MoreOperation Christmas Child Shoeboxes (5-9 Boy, 5-9 Girl, and 10-14 Boy)
Affiliate links included In honor of the last day of this years National Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child, I wanted to share what we packed in our boxes this year! You will notice that our boxes are really full. When we got home from shopping I was like “Holy cow! Am I going to be…
Read MoreGifts for the Whole Gang – Family Gift Guide
Affiliate links included For Christmas, I always wanted to get one big gift for my kids that was a “family gift.” Something that everyone could have fun using together. Now that baby J is here, this is the first year that we’ll actually be able to do that! Since buying a gift that spans multiple…
Read MoreHero Training – Week 6 – Joyful
Week six is a fun one, because it is all about JOY! You know it’ll be a good time when you spend a week focusing on being joyful! 🙂 If you haven’t read the introduction to the series yet, check it out here (it has all the instructions and info you’ll need). Get past weeks here: week one…
Read MoreTeaching Your Kids the Christmas Story (Truth in the Tinsel Review and Giveaway)
*Affiliate links included* Christmas is one of my absolute favorite times of the year. Christmas music, shopping for gifts, decorating the tree, cookies and hot chocolate – I love it all. And of all the great things that the Christmas season brings, there is nothing that compares with finding memorable ways to share the true…
Read MoreHero Training! Kid’s Character Challenge – Diligence – Week 5
Week five of Hero Training is a week I have been looking forward to for a while! Many times I have told K to “be diligent” as he is working on something, yet in the back of my mind I knew that I really needed to teach him what being diligent even was! So, hooray!,…
Read MoreBaby’s First Christmas – Gift Guide
*Affiliate links included* K was born five days after Christmas, so he was just about one before he got to experience his first Christmas. Because of that, I didn’t really get to experience “baby’s first Christmas” since by his first Christmas he wasn’t really a baby anymore! J, however, will be 7 months at Christmas…
Read MoreOne Year Old Gift Guide (Things They’ll Play With For Years To Come)
*affiliate links included* Recently a friend of mine’s little boy turned one and as I was trying to pick out a gift for his birthday party, I realized just how difficult it is to find good gifts for that age. Sure, there is an abundance of overpriced plastic toys that light up and make noise,…
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