easy grandpa gift idea for Father’s Day

"Thanks for bean such a fun grandpa" gift idea.

Sometimes you just a need a simple and fun gift idea. Not every gift has to be overly elaborate to be thoughtful. If you have a lot of dads in your life you want to recognize for Father’s Day, this is a great gift idea! Obviously you could gift this to any father figure in […]

primary singing time: colored word strip review

We all know that children (and some of us older folks, aka, “adults”) learn best by repetition; especially younger children who can’t really read yet! This colored word strip review is a simple activity to execute, it just takes a little bit of prep on your part (not hard, just time consuming, I did it […]

the big move

This is a post I have been waiting a looonnnnng time to write. We welcomed a very exciting friend over to our house today. And by a friend I mean a man with his big truck and even bigger trailer to move our large shed. My children were very excited about this. Well, Thing 1 […]

june mantel

This mantel might be my favorite one that I’ve done this year. And speaking of this year, this June mantel is my last monthly mantel I’ll be doing. It was last July that I made a commitment to change my mantel out every month and I’m proud to say that I kept with it! I […]

self image & self worth (& free printables!)

There is a picture in my scrapbook of me from about a year before I got married. I’m standing with my upper body out of a pool and at the time I felt a little “bigger” than I’d like to be, not quite as lean as I would have liked.I laugh now because what I […]