My kids love butterflies. Don't yours? In fact, over the years since I became a parent, I've been to more butterfly parks and butterfly rooms than I can count. It's always a hugely popular event in our family, and always we are hopeful that one will actually land on us and we will have an amazing moment of connection with a butterfly. Or maybe, we will even be able to watch one hatch!In fact, one Continue Reading >>
The Best Creative Bible Teaching that Changes Lives
This is a guest post from my good friend Anne Marie from Future Flying Saucers who creates the most amazing Bible object lessons for kids. You can check out a list of her top ten free Bible Object Lessons for kids here. Are you a Christian parent? Then you are a Bible teacher. Do you volunteer at your church? Do you teach Sunday School? Children's Church? If you can answer yes to any of these Continue Reading >>
15 Fun Inexpensive Date Ideas for Dating your Spouse
What seems like ages ago, we had six kids under ten, no babysitters, and no money to speak of. Dating, when it happened, had to be cheap because we had to pay for a babysitter for six kids! I remember those days well, and also remember the day we realized, our oldest is old enough to babysit, we can go out on dates now whenever we want. Except money. So inexpensive date ideas are Continue Reading >>
Free Printable Kitchen Cleaning Checklist in Three Style Choices
I'm dreaming of a completely clean kitchen without the need for me to lift a finger. I've got five kids at home who take turns cleaning up after each meal, and each of them is old enough to do most of these tasks, although I don't let my nine-year-olds wash the sharp knives yet. My kitchen would be clean by the time I wander in there at night before bed, if everyone assigned the chore knew what Continue Reading >>
Modeling Thankfulness to Kids in an Entitlement Society
How can we make sure our children don't grow up in this entitlement society with the same attitude? I don't have grown children yet, so I am looking back on what my parents did with me and hoping that this works. How can we teach our kids to be thankful? Twenty years ago, I was newly married and working temporary jobs through a "temp agency" to fill in for people who went on vacation or for Continue Reading >>
Make The Perfect School Box Using Duct Tape
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Duck Brand®. All opinions are 100% mine. You may not know this about my family yet, but the kids and I have been enthralled with duct tape for a very long time. Give my kids three rolls of duct tape and a couple of cardboard boxes, and you won't see them for a few hours! It seems like they never run out of ideas for this combination of Continue Reading >>
