Posts tagged ‘weekly family activity’


Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Harvesting

Monday, September 22nd, 2008 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

The Kids Yoga Giveaway is a few posts down. My first experience I can remember of Harvesting was getting permission from the librarian to climb the huge apple tree in front of the library to collect apples to make pies, applesauce and juice. Fall is the perfect time to do this with all of the […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Sporting Events

Monday, September 15th, 2008 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

The giveaway is a couple of posts down. I grew up in Maryland and OF COURSE my favorite team and player… Going to a game was not financially possible with a family of seven. We would however go to local university’s baseball, hockey, soccer, basketball, volleyball games. Watching those games helped me have role models […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Getting to know the neighbors…

Monday, September 8th, 2008 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

Scroll down a couple posts for the great Halloween Giveaway. We moved into our house this Spring and to be honest we have not done a good job getting to know the neighbors. In my last neighborhood one of the ladies started this tradition… Amish Friendship Bread I am sure lots of you have heard […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Country of the Month Thailand

Monday, September 1st, 2008 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

Click herefor the Nie Nie Day Silent Auction Post.   Click here for the giveaway.   We started a new tradition in our family, every month we are going to learn about and do fun things about a certain country. My sister, Sarah, recently came home from a mission to Thailand, so I recruited her for our first day of […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Interview Your Children About Their Rooms

Monday, August 25th, 2008 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

My mother in law let me borrow this wonderful book that was published back in 1985, How to Organize Your Kid’s Room by Susan Isaacs. It is making me re-think the way I set up my girl’s rooms and how it will help or hinder their ability to play, do their chores, study and keep […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity–Getting Your Kids Excited for School

Monday, August 18th, 2008 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

Click here for the giveaway. Family Fun had some great ideas in this month’s magazine to get your children excited for school. For your weekly family activity plan one of these fun activities. Backpack Fairy—Have the Backpack Fairy visit the night before the first day of school and fill your child’s backpacks with treats, new […]

ARCHIVES Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Just Give In!

Monday, August 11th, 2008 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

The giveaway is a few posts down, last night to enter!!  Weekly Family Night Activity Just Give In! I have a horrible day dreaming problem. Sometimes in my mind I want my life to be just like the movies, usually I live in the house from Father of the Bride and my children act like […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Being spontaneous with your kiddos…

Monday, July 28th, 2008 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

This has to be in my top 5 best memories ever as a kiddo: It was my 7th birthday and it wasn’t turning out to be the best. Most of the day was spent running errands as a family, the last one being Home Depot. When we got in the car my Dad starting really […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Family Photo Album

Monday, July 21st, 2008 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

Click here for the giveaway.  If you are as bad as I am, your family’s photo album is nonexistent or a few years behind. It might make you a little nervous to have your family help you with the album, but I really think with good supervision it could be a lot of fun. What a […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!

Monday, July 14th, 2008 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

  My local library is doing the most fabulous summer reading program all revolving around bugs! Here are some great ideas they have for families: -Draw a picture of a spider and a web. What would your spider eat? Draw more to go along with it or write a story. -Draw a picture of the […]