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Our December, So Far

December 15, 2011

We’ve been having a pretty great December so far. Somehow we’ve managed to pack a bunch of fun stuff in while also keeping it pretty low-key. I’m not sure how things are working out like that, but I’ll take it. A lot of the stuff we’ve been doing are activities from the advent calendar but [...]

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Playing Board Games

December 14, 2011

I feel like I’ve been trying to get people to play games with me since I was a little kid. I really love board games. When I was growing up, I had the standards — Trouble, Candyland, Sorry, Battleship, Clue. I would have played any and all of these board games every day, but finding [...]

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Shaving Cream “Snow”

December 8, 2011

One of the activities I put on our advent list this year was an idea that came from Family Fun magazine: create a snowscape with shaving cream. My kids had no idea what that meant when they pulled the little card out of the box but they were pretty excited once they figured it out.

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Advent Crazy

November 28, 2011

In the last few years, it’s become apparent that I’m a little bit crazy for advent calendars. So far this year, I have three lined up! I say “so far” because sometimes one of the kids’ grandmas or someone will send them an advent calendar too. I say: Bring ‘em on!
Advent calendars weren’t a fixture [...]

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Please Support The Diaper Act

November 3, 2011

I’m all riled up!
You see my friend Lisa, one of the founders of Help a Mother Out has been working hard to get the word out about The DIAPER Act. If you’ve been reading my blog for the last couple years, you may have read a post or two that I’ve written about Help a [...]

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Halloween Porch

October 26, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, the Halloween decorations started to come out in our neighborhood. This is our first Halloween in this house, so I wasn’t sure what to expect but it became apparent pretty quickly that the bar is pretty high — at least in the little cluster of houses we live in. At [...]

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