Swedish Woven Heart Paper Craft
Looking for a fun and easy Christmas Craft? Want to create a cute little basket to hold candy or treats? This Swedish Woven Heart Paper Craft is a Swedish Christmas tradition. They are easy and fun to make! Swedish Woven Heart Paper Craft These cute paper baskets make great holders for treats to give to […]
Thanksgiving Thankfuls 2017 – Reflecting on the Gifts of This Year
In 2009 at the beginning of November I started a daily status on Facebook for something that I was thankful for. The challenge was to post a new/different “Thankful” each day of the month in honor of Thanksgiving. This practice has become very popular now on Facebook. In 2010 I started this Thanksgiving Thankfuls here […]
365 Project ~ Days 5 & 6
A Day Five: Wednesday, January 5th A Snow, snow, came again. Since getting hit with two weeks of snow starting on the 1st of December, we have had virtually nothing else. Then we had a thaw and two days of 40-50 degree weather. The kids have been hoping for more snow so that they can […]
365 Project ~ Day 3 & 4
A Day Three: Monday, January 3rd A This photo marks the beginning of Ava’s official career as a soccer player. Now that she is 4, and we have already decided we are not going to have another gymnast in the family, it is time to try other things. She seems to have an affinity for […]
Simple Woman’s Daybook ~ January 4th, 2011
A Simple Woman’s Daybook A FOR TODAY: Tuesday, January 4th, 2011… A Outside my window…the sky is gray, the birds are mostly gone. It is a cold winter without the snow right now. The kids are itching to get some decent snowfall so they can make snowmen, forts, and go sledding. A I am thinking…that […]
Competitive vs. Non-Judgmental Parenting
Over at Making the Moments Count, Amber recently posted about Competitive Parenting. Which led her to starting a notion called “Non-Judgmental Parenting”. I would not have known about this except for that fact that it struck a cord with my friend Shana and she posted about it at her blog, A Queen Among Kings. A […]
Project 365 ~ Days 1 & 2
A Day One: Saturday, January 1st A This is a photo of the start screen in our new Playstation Move game called Start the Party. The camera takes a photo of you to put inside your character. The kids love making silly faces that they can see throughout the game. It also records your voice […]
My 5 Favorite Things About 2010
A Straight from Shana’s blog, I have swiped this idea about “My 5 Favorite Things About 2010“. So thanks to Shana and her love of the blog/page called Operation Nice, I have an interesting way to reflect back on 2010 and pick out some highlights. The only problem is… where to start? A 1. My […]
New Year’s Resolution ~ 2011
This past January I posted about New Year’s Resolutions. I had pretty much forgotten about the post until I started searching my blog for all the things I had posted about Gone With the Wind. In January of this year I made it my one mission for the year to read Gone With the Wind. […]
365 Project
As I was sitting around the other night trying to catch up on some of my blog reading, I stumbled upon something that caught my attention. Over at Weird Unsocialized Homeshcoolers, Kris posted about starting a new project for the year called 365 Project. She was talking about how she had received a new fancy […]
Gentle Island Surf
Over the past year we have taken to scanning all of my old photos and turning them into digital format. I have photo album after photo album from my adolescent years! Now that they are in our photo files they come up in the screen savers on all of our computers. A I recently came […]
Wordless (almost) Wednesday
A Chloe feeling the love from Ava over the handmade Tinkerbelle knotted fleece blanket she made for her!
Christmas Acrostic Poems
These Christmas Acrostic Poems were easily made from things we already had on hand. All you have to do is gather up your imagination and a few supplies and your kids can create a memorable craft/decoration. This week we are taking a break from our usual activities to enjoy some holiday downtime. From sleeping in, […]