Category: Home and Family

  • Day 6: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

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    Advent calendars’ aren’t just for the kids… every day up to, and including, Christmas Day I’ll have a treat/ simple assignment for you in celebration of Christmas. Here’s your assignment for Day 6: Host a family Christmas movie tonight (or put it on your calendar for a different night and follow through). Pop popcorn, snuggle under…

  • Day 5: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

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    Advent calendars’ aren’t just for the kids… every day up to, and including, Christmas Day I’ll have a treat/ simple assignment for you in celebration of Christmas. Here’s your assignment for Day 5: Pray for all your bloggy friends and another women’s group you may be apart of that we may all have a peaceful, joy-filled Christmas. Thank…

  • Day 4: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

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    Advent calendars’ aren’t just for the kids… every day up to, and including, Christmas Day I’ll have a treat/ simple assignment for you in celebration of Christmas. Here’s your task for Day 4: Get ready for Christmas part 2: Look back over your notes from Day 1 on what you like about Christmas. What plans…

  • Make your own advent calendar

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    My house may not yet be decorated for Christmas, but I think my heart is. I hope you’ve enjoyed my daily advent gift/ ‘assignment’ to you each day. I will continue to post daily advent assignments to get you in the spirit. But if you’re a planner like me and want to make your own…

  • Day 3: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

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    Advent calendars’ aren’t just for the kids… every day up to, and including, Christmas Day I’ll have a treat/ simple assignment for you in celebration of Christmas. Here’s your “task” for Day 3: Sing Joy to the World at the Top of your lungs. (Bonus points for doing it outside.) Have fun!! See you tomorrow.

  • Day 2: MomsToolbox Advent Calendar

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    You might have your kids’ Advent calendar ready to go, but what about one for you? Each day of the Advent season check back and I will give you your treat: a simple, super-easy way to get in the Christmas spirit. Ready? Here’s your assignment for Day Two: Read Matthew 1-2 to your family or…

  • Day 1: Mom’s Toolbox Advent Calendar

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    You might have your kids’ Advent calendar ready to go, but what about one for you? Each day of the Advent season check back and I will give you your treat: a simple, super-easy way to get in the Christmas spirit. Ready? Here’s your assignment for Day One: Get ready for Christmas part 1: Spend…

  • Scrapbook and Craft Storage

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    Last week The Organizing Junkie listed a few fun scrapbook organizing tools. This month she is focusing on organizing craft areas, but doesn’t have one herself. That isn’t stopping her from coming up with all sorts of creative solutions. Her post last week made me think about my craft room and scrapbook tool storage. I…

  • Beary Cute Brownie Bites

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    For my son’s first Cub Scout camp out, all the families were asked to bring a dessert to share. (Of course, I was wondering what happened to s’mores, but then I decided that maybe that was a Girl Scout thing.) Anyhow, I remembered some cute bear brownie treats I had made for the kids in…

  • Money Money Money

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    Now that I’ve got your attention, I’ll explain: I’m really tired. And I should really be in bed sleeping. So I’d love to tell you all about the ladies’ discussion group I hosted tonight and all the interesting things we discussed about September’s reading topic of healthy eating. But I am exhausted. So I’ll try…

  • Masking Tape Works for Me

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    I love to use storage containers in my pantry. (And, well, pretty much anywhere else in the house, too.)   But sometimes it’s tough to tell what’s inside of those containers. And I certainly don’t want to confuse the sea salt with the sugar. At first I used a fancy schmancy label maker to make…

  • Making snack time even easier

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    I keep a basket of “mom-approved” snack items, individually packaged, on a lower shelf in my pantry for kid self-service at snack time. This way the kiddos can help themselves and get the freedom to choose the snack they would most enjoy each afternoon. I also have a similar stash in the refrigerator of cheese…

  • Indiana Jones birthday party!

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    The Indiana Jones birthday party was a huge, hilarious hit! About a month ago, we were trying to figure out what to do for my son’s 7th birthday. Quite a few ideas were thrown around until we came across this. Then we knew what had to be done. Indiana Jones and a fellow blogger to…

  • Building an Indiana Jones birthday cake

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    For all but two of the 13 previous children’s birthday celebrations I’ve planned for my kiddos, I’ve called a bakery and had an absolutely delicious cake or cupcakes arrive at my home ready to be ooh’ed and ahhh’ed and devoured. (For one of those parties I served pancakes, not cake, by the way. You can read about that here.…

  • Bring on the backpacks!

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    Yesterday was the first day of school for my two boys. Although yesterday was my first emotional first day, I love the beginning of school. It’s such a great time for a fresh start. And I wanted to to start my guys off right. So, when they came home and I asked them to put…