Category Archives: Family Celebrations
The Backwards Birthday Party
doing something new. A couple of years ago my girls had their 10th birthday. At our house we have big parties (definition: with friends) every 5 years. The in between years are family parties. So…we like to be extra fun and creative when it comes to the big FIVE! The girls came up with [...]
Love is a Verb.
(thank you to millie holloman for this awesome picture!) love happens even when it’s not easy. We rush out the door, backpacks banging against the table as everyone rushes for the car. We scramble to get our seatbelts clicked and then off we go. The van fills with happy, chaotic chatter about what each of [...]
February: The beginning of The Year of Love.
Giving what you have to others… creates more love, in you, for them. Falling in love is awesome! We fall in love and get married, we fall in love with newborn babies, we fall in love with new friends, we fall in love with ideas, we fall in love with new places. All of this [...]
Giving Kids the Gift of Your Time at Christmas
giving the best thing you have as a gift… Meaningful gifts are my favorite at Christmas time! Mike is great at giving me gifts. I talked about some of those last year here. I’m excited about giving our kids some really cool gifts this year. Giving our time to the people that we love most [...]
Giving Kids the Gift of An Experience for Christmas
Giving Kids the Gift of an Experience Our kids get receive one gift from us under the tree and one gift from us (Santa) next to their stocking. One of our favorite things to give them is the gift of an experience. One year Miriam opened her present to find riding boots and a [...]
Pie Making: The fun part
the helpers. One of the best parts about Thanksgiving is the amount of help you can get from younger kids. There are so many little jobs to be done that can be accomplished in about 5 minutes flat. This is good for kids that have more important things to do like: figure out how to [...]
Last minute Familyness Ideas for Thanksgiving.
it’s the last minute…. you have your kids at home, grandparents and cousins are about to come into town. Life has been pretty crazy lately and you’ve barely had a chance to think about what the next few days will hold. You know you’ve got to feed everyone but what about the rest of [...]
Thankful Heart Tree
I can’t wait… to do this tree when my family is here in a couple of days! Some Thanksgiving traditions for us are: Our Thankful Heart Tree Sharing something we’re thankful for around the dinner table on Thanksgiving Day Taking soup to homeless people Putting together puzzles What are some of your familyness traditions? [...]
Happiness in your own Backyard: Tips for Thanksgiving
*instagram photos An awesome backyard… was in my backyard the whole time! When we found out we were moving to South Carolina I had visions of the old plantation home on acres and acres of land that we would purchase and fix up. An old (not very expensive house because only I would see the [...]
Happy Halloween Ideas (and The Child Whisperer winner).
Halloween and a winner. Happy Halloween! Wishing everyone a night of fun candy loot gathering! Just wanted to share with you some of my favorite last minute Halloween ideas from around the interwebs… Fun stuff for tonight: So everyone at your house has had their costumes on since they got home from school. Now what? [...]
