Hello, friends! I’ve missed connecting with you this summer while I’ve been hanging out with my kids, living life in the slow lane. So, let’s catch up. First of all, I can’t believe the summer is over. It flew by in a flurry of swim meets for my son, first-time jobs for my daughter, (life-guarding and babysitting) and lots of naps for me. And now it’s almost September and the garden is waning and the sunset is coming faster every…
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Back to school is the most glorious time of year. The end. Just kidding! It isn’t the end. It’s the beginning of an entire school year, of magic. FOR ME. I used to cry when my kids left to go back to school on the first day in the fall. I spent the whole first day back wandering around my house, tearfully picking tiny t-shirts and toys off the floor, heartbroken without my little noisy companions. Wallowing in the…
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Black Lives Matter. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve spent the better part of the last week weeping, nonstop. I’ve been following along on Twitter as the events of the last week, and month, and year have developed live, and have been horrified along with the rest of the world. But the back-to-back killings of two black men, followed by the killing of 5 police officers at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, completely…
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7 Easy Crafts To Make At Home With Kids If you’re looking for some super fun, easy crafts to do with kids, I’ve got 7 new ideas for you to try. There’s never a reason for kids to be bored with such a variety of things to craft at home. Homemade Slime: Have you ever tried making your own homemade slime? It’s so much fun for kids! All you need is a few household supplies (who knew liquid starch was…
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Time for goop, a super fun craft recipe to make with kids! Today I’m sharing one of the easiest, most delightful kid’s crafts of all time: home made goop, or slime. We’ve called it a lot of things as we’ve made it together over the years: goop, gobbledeygook, homemade slime, Ogre boogers, gloop. Whatever you call it, it’s super fun and easy to make! Check out the recipe below, and print it up to keep in your craft stash. How…
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10 tutorials of gorgeous DIY jewelry! I realized today that I have so many cool, DIY, recycled, up-cycled, crafty do-it-yourself tutorials in the archives of my blog and I want to bring them front and center for you in one place. So, here is a collection of 10 Gorgeous DIY Jewelry Tutorials. Everything from a gold-leafed clay pendant necklace, to earrings, a necklace, and bracelet all make out of hex nuts from the hardware store, to recycled old brooches made…
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Sports are in my blood: I grew up playing sports. Every kind of sport popular in America: basketball, softball, swimming, volleyball, soccer. You name it, I played it, whether it was on my parents front lawn or the high school soccer field. I can count on one hand the number of my games my parents attended, and there wasn’t a single time my parents talked to one of my coaches, on or off the field, about their goals for my…
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This week’s quote of the week (even though it’s been a couple weeks) is a simple mantra to remember the good things in life. The image is a photo I took a few weeks ago of some mountains I love in Utah, as I was taking a bike ride after dinner. I forget sometimes, how beautiful Utah is, because I’m constantly wishing I lived near the ocean. But the whole point of the quote is to take every day for…
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Biking is quickly becoming a part of my daily routine since my new bike came into my life, and is my new favorite way to get around. Most of us grow up riding bikes as kids, but not many of us keep riding as adults, especially as a primary mode of transportation. But we should all be out biking, all the time. It’s so much fun I almost feel like a kid again, and it’s such great exercise. I love…
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