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Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Road Trips

Monday, May 11th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

Road trips can be downright painful. At the beginning of all our trips the little girl you see pictured below throws herself into such a frenzy it knocks her out and she falls asleep for a few minutes. When she awakens she’s totally over what was bothering her before she conked out! A few awesome […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Best Yard Game

Monday, May 4th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

I must be the last person in the world to hear of the yard game Bocce, but just in case some of you have yet to learn about it I thought I would share how much fun we’ve had playing this game. We went up to Logan to visit my sister and her new husband […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Country of the Month~Spain~

Monday, April 27th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

My husband wishes he were a Spaniard and would love to live there for half the year…every year. He lived in Spain for two years and talks about it on a weekly basis, which made it easy for us to have a night of Spanish fun with the girls. Food We love to cook in my […]

~Earth Week~Monday: Weekly Family Activity–Healthy & Eco-friendly Bake-Off

Monday, April 20th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

For a treat tonight we made berry-licious smoothies with the girls. While making them I told them a “story” (they listen better to what I have to say when it starts with “once upon a time” and includes a few princess references) to go along with what we were doing. I told them how what […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—3 Things

Monday, April 13th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

For Christmas I purchased “Gratitude Journals” for my family and thought once a week or so we could take some time to write in them. I soon realized it needed to be done on a daily basis rather than weekly. With how busy we are, how stressful some of our days can be and how […]

Grandparents Week~Monday: Weekly Family Activity–Family History

Monday, April 6th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

Family History:  Easier and More Captivating than You Think   image courtesy of pbs.org   Blood Connection   I didn’t always care about genealogy work.  I didn’t know these people anyway.  Finding data was difficult and boring (e.g., birth date, death date).   However, I happened upon articles about my ancestors that caught my attention and my […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity–Herb Garden

Monday, March 30th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

I am NOT going to overdo it this year with my Spring garden like I normally do. Unfortunately it doesn’t pay off and with me less is more. Last year the girls loved helping me put together our herb garden and we have already started it for this year. Growing herbs saved me tons in […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Brad from DadLabs.com

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

Our guest DAD today is Brad is the CEO, Producer and Star of the website DadLabs. Their mission is to strengthen families and benefit children by empowering today’s fathers. DadLabs provides resources to expecting, new and veteran fathers that will launch them into a more active and creative role in the lives of their children. […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Going Green

Monday, March 16th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

For your weekly family activity you can talk about how to work on being more eco-friendly as a family. Setting a good example for your children is the most important step to take in teaching them to reduce their carbon footprint and to love the Earth. Sometimes it is hard to think of ways you […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity–Growing a Garden to Help End Childhood Hunger

Monday, March 9th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

Our guest writer today is 10 year old Katie, who is sharing with us her experience of helping to end childhood hunger. She wanted to share this in hopes that you would follow in her footsteps with her fantastic ideas! Be sure to give her a warm welcome, she is an amazing young lady! One […]