Category: Home and Family

  • What would God think of my to-do list?

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    This morning I finished reading Hebrews with Hebrews 13. It felt very much like a gentle reminder of how I can live as God intended: 1. Love each other 2. Entertain strangers (You never know who the angels are) 3. Remember prisoners and the mistreated 4. Honor marriage 5. Do not love money … and…

  • Ya gotta have friends to throw a baby shower

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    Okay, so that’s an obvious one… Who else would you host a baby shower for other than a friend? But, other than that, ya gotta have friends to make it just right… or at least it certainly helps. A few weekends ago I hosted a baby shower along with 2 other women. Karen, an amazing…

  • Discovering Houston’s Discovery Green

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    Friday night we took the older two kiddos to Discovery Green, Houston’s newest outdoor park and entertainment venue. The park was hosting a dog jumping competition, a short film festival and a zydeco concert… all for free. We valet parked at one of the restaurants, cruised by the dogs and the kids made a bee-line…

  • PJ Pancake Breakfast Bash

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    While trying to figure out how to celebrate our soon-to-be two-year-old’s birthday in an already action-packed day, my husband came up with the idea of inviting the girls in our neighborhood (instead of the usual long list of all our friends) over for a breakfast celebration. It wasn’t long after that I saw a flower-shaped…

  • Planning summer fun

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    Summer brings a lack of schedule in parenting that can be absolutely glorious, as well as extremely frustrating for me. I love that I don’t have to usher my kids out the door early every weekday morning. And I love that I have a lot of free time with my kids to play with them, talk…

  • The New First Three Years of Life

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    http://www.amazon.com/New-First-Three-Years-Life/dp/0684804190 This is my absolute favorite parenting young children book out there. An educator at The Children’s Museum of Houston recommended it to me and I read it while pregnant with my first child.  Then I kept it closeby while navigating first-time motherhood, re-reading pages many times through the first two and a half years. And…

  • Menu Planning Mondays

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    http://orgjunkie.com/ I’ve always been a planner, so the concept of planning a weekly menu and THEN going to the grocery store (after making a list, of course) wasn’t revolutionary to me. But, the idea of looking at other mom’s menus each week to get new ideas… now that’s brilliant! Among lots of groovy organizational ideas,…

  • FLYing through the house chores

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    http://flylady.net/ This website offers a practical routine for de-cluttering your home and keeping it clutter-free. And it’s filled with lots of positive affirmations (FLY stands for Finally Loving Yourself). By breaking your home into zones and following her daily routines, you will see your piles shrink and  become more discerning about adding new clutter to the mix. Her…

  • Baby Bargains book

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    http://www.windsorpeak.com/babybargains/default.html Gearing up for baby number one (and others) can be an expensive, overwhelming process. I relied heavily on reviews in Baby Bargainsby Denise and Alan Fields to select a car seat, stroller, crib, diaper genie, sippy cup… heck, almost my entire baby registry was pulled from the pages of this book! And when baby…

  • Family Fun Website

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    http://familyfun.go.com/ Even when my children were too young for the ideas in the magazine Family Fun, I enjoyed flipping through and seeing what other moms might be doing. Now that I am a mom, I still enjoy perusing the pages for ideas, but often I find myself intimidated, as a lot of the ideas seem like…

  • Preschool Express

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    http://www.preschoolexpress.com/ Not feeling all too creative, but still want creative, educational and fun things to do with your preschooler? Jean Warren’s Preschool Express is the answer. This site is chock-full of excellent ideas for preschoolers and their parents (and teachers) arranged in an easy-to navigate format. Looking for something simple yet relevant to do every day?…