Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Easy Christmas Gift for Little Friends

For a number of reasons, I encourage my children to give small gifts to their friends and classmates.  We try to keep them pretty simple and often homemade, and I love how this year's gift is...
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Christmas Cards for Inmates

I hope you guys are all having a wonderful Christmas season!  It's been go-go-go around here with Christmas baking, crafting for school, and some service projects that we've taken on.  Guess...
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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Best Christmas Books About Serving Others

One of our favorite, long-standing Christmas traditions is reading Christmas books together.  I've posted many of our reading lists on this blog.  This year, I asked Guy (age 10) to choose...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

The Book of Mormon Challenge FHE

I mentioned in yesterday's post that I had no idea what we were going to do for FHE yesterday, but that I'd figure it out.  Well, I figured it out by sharing that responsibility with my husband...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

Learning from General Conference as a Family #LDSConf

How fun to see my recent post on the LDS.org blog featured on the front page of LDS.org today! The article is called Learning From General Conference as a Family.   You guys know how much...
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Friday, November 13, 2015

Turkey T-shirts

I saw these t-shirts on Pinterest and could not resist making them with the family at FHE this week.  In a world where holidays are being celebrated less and less in schools, this old-school...
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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Gifts Kids can Make: Sharpie Shoes

Just dropping in to share another easy gift kids can make.  We're probably slightly behind the curve when it comes to this whole sharpie shoe decorating craze, but they're really fun and Scarlett...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

The Miracle Maker: a family-friendly film

A few weeks ago, my children and I sat down to watch the new movie "The Miracle Maker."  We were asked to review it.  As for me, it was a good movie for Sunday viewing.  I appreciated...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Thanksgiving Hostess Gift

Like many of you, we're focusing on showing gratitude for others as a family this month. We talked a little bit about who we should show gratitude to and what we should show gratitude for...and...
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Sunday, November 8, 2015

Talking to Your Children About the New Policy on Baptism

First let me say...I've had a very busy few weeks over here, so I didn't really hear about the new policy change for the baptism of children until probably later than some did in their social...
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