craft, Kids, repurpose

Olympic fever!

Tonight we are having an Olympics opening ceremonies party and the kids and I love decorating. So our living room has streamers and balloons in the five Olympic ring colors. The girls wanted to make Olympic shirts and i remembered all the toilet paper rolls I’ve been saving and got a great idea.

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craft, repurpose

DIY unfinished wood stain

I have a lovely bench that my husband made for our entryway one Christmas as a gift to me. He used old wood because he knows I love the look of repurposed boards. I didn’t evenwant to paint or stain it, although some parts showed old paint and none of the boards were a perfect match in color.
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Kids

Good Clean (Sensory Table) Fun!

The kids have been asking for the sensory table this week and I wanted a new idea for the theme. So I thought about how much they have been eager to learn chores and help out around the house, trust me I’m living it up cause I know it will end, and decided to use soap and water!

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Recipes

I say Po-tay-toe… You say Po-tah-toe!

We recently dug up pounds and pounds of fresh potatoes from our garden. I love finding new ways of using our fresh veggies from the garden. I also love using good old tried and true recipes from my mom. Today I made a new and old recipe with my potatoes and decided to share them.
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Birthday Party, cakes

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Party

My Annabelle’s 4th birthday party went great. I’m sharing some of the decor ideas today since I try to go pretty cheap, yet fun and as big as I can. I love seeing other mom’s ideas so I can use them too, so I’m sharing to help out other moms too.

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Recipes

Make Your Own Chocolate Syrup

Hello friends! I’ve been traveling with my husband and our youth group for the last four weeks and had to take a break from posting but I’m back 🙂 I am so blessed to have been a part of some amazing trips with even more amazing teens this summer, and now I’m thankful to be home and slow down for a bit. The past few days have been about getting back to our regular schedule here in our home. Some of that is laundry (tons), groceries, cleaning (how does a house get so dirty with no one in it?! ), harvesting from the garden, preparing and freezing our veggies, playing and laughing together as a family.

One thing I had to do was make more chocolate syrup, I don’t know about your house but ours has three kids four and under and we can go through some chocolate syrup!

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