Category: Lifestyle

Gift of Art

Do you have someone on your shopping list who loves art? My daughter loves art and crafting and every year she has art supplies on her list. I love giving art-related gifts to people on my shopping list. Today, I share some gift ideas for the artist in your life.  *This post may contain affiliate…

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Gift Outside the Box: 9 Unique gift ideas

With the holidays quickly approaching and current supply chain issues, I’ve been searching the internet high and low for gift ideas that are outside the norm. I’ve come up with 9 categories for gift giving that is a little bit outside of the norm. 1. Time This year give the most precious gift of your…

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Gifts Outside the Box: Gift of Time

Christmas is in 54 days and I’m excited to choose gifts for loved ones. With the supply chain issues expected this holiday season, I’m shopping early this year. I’m also looking to think outside the box with some of the gifts that I give. Today’s gifts outside the box are gifts of time. *This post…

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Birthday Club: Best Birthday Freebies

When you’re a kid celebrating your birthday it’s full of magic and fun. As an adult, the fun and magic come from taking advantage of all the birthday freebies. When Jacob and I were poor college students, someone told me about birthday clubs and how signing up for them could get me a bunch of…

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Twelve perfect gifts for women: Gift Guide 2021

If you have found yourself on this page, you are likely shopping for gifts for women. With that in mind, I’m sharing the best gifts that I’ve gotten as well as the ones that are on my list this year. *This post may contain affiliate links, which means I’ll receive a commission if you purchase…

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Nine great gifts for Tween Girls: Gift Guide 2020

Need great gifts for tween girls? She’s not quite a teen, but no longer that little girl who danced around in princess dresses. It can be hard to find that balance but with the help of my own tween, we were able to compile a list of things that would be great to get the…

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25 Days of Christmas Books – A book advent

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] One of our very favorite holiday traditions is our 25 Days of Christmas Books Tradition. I wrap 25 holiday and Christmas themed books. Then, beginning on December 1st, we unwrap a book a night and read it together as a family. *This post may contain affiliate links, which…

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4 Places to visit in Indio, California

We just got back from a mini vacay in a place that I have never heard of. About 20 minutes southeast of Palm Springs is a city called Indio. It is located in the Coachella Valley. So maybe you have heard of it? Let me know in the comments if you have heard of it…

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The Mommy Store

With such long chore lists, you might be wondering how I keep my kids motivated to do chores. Enter, the ” Mommy Store.” I do not take credit as the original inventor of this idea. Rather, I built my own version based on the one we had as kids and from the one that Rachel…

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How to get your kids to do Chores

After many years of switching between the many different chore charts out there, I have finally found one that works best for us. There is no reminding them of what their chores are (only that they need to do them) and no arguments about who’s turn it is do which chore. What is this sorcery…

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