Let’s organize our day: the evening routine
After replying to Lana’s comment in my last blog post asking how I manage my time, I started thinking about some of the little things that I routinely do to make my day run more smoothly and organized. It has never occurred to me to write about them because they have become natural to me [...]
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A week in review
For the last week my husband has been in Mexico doing work to help some communities there. His parents graciously have been visiting in his absence and provided some much appriciated adult interaction as well as support and help with the kids and household duties (for instance, I have been very thankful that I have [...]
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Snow painting with food coloring!
Two things are guaranteed to make life seem more fun. 1) Grandparents 2) Food Coloring* Put these two together and you have a fool-proof recipe for a good time. For Christmas this year, Grandma and Grandpa Ledeboer gave Hunter and Ashlyn a creative “snow toy” which consisted of: -Squirt bottles -Food coloring Simply fill up [...]
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Ashlyn’s Castle Birthday Cake
Those are Ashlyn’s three birthday cakes cooling outside on top of our grill. It looks pretty innocent right? But after our dog came over and was giving it some looks I realized quickly that I better move it to a safer location. I moved it to the garage and double checked that the door was [...]
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The cake, the dog and a smile
After yesterday’s failure in the kitchen, you would think I might just steer clear of baking for a little while to let the smoke clear. However, today was Ashlyn’s birthday and I wanted to try my hand at a homemade “healthier” cake (i.e. not a store bought cake or frosting). All went well until our [...]
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denial and la-la land
If you are like me, you have at least one child still home from school this week. Life is still in “vacation” mode and your pantry is overflowing with sugar laden snacks and treats. Bed times are more of a suggested time, PJ’s are worn well into the morning and routines are bent and shaped [...]
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Shriveled Grapes, a Christmas Reflection
Have you ever received a gift that you were less than excited about? Little kids are masters at being painfully honest, especially when it comes to gifts. My nephew was five years old when he sat down to open his stocking plump with presents. As he reached in and his fingers grasped the first gift [...]
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Good Gifts for Your Children
By Angela Gifford (our Customer Service Assistant and blogger at Let’s Talk About Boys) Our tree decorating time this year was a little disjointed. This is the first time ever we haven’t done the whole tree as a family, but our work schedules just didn’t make it possible. One night I waited up as long [...]
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Getting ready for a newborn (meal idea) by Mom 4 Life Charlotte L.
“Knowing that cooking was going to be a chore when I was adjusting with a newborn, we made up freezable meals for 2 weeks worth of dinners and I also went to Costco and purchased some of their pre-made meals and used paper plates and cups and disposable silverware until I was better adjusted to [...]
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The Christmas Card Conundrum
Receiving Christmas cards is lots of fun. I especially love the ones that include photos. However, if I am being completely honest, sending cards out is not always my favorite thing to do. I enjoy being done with it, but I don’t really enjoy the process of doing it. I get caught trying to decide [...]
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We are now big-kid diaper free!
Just shy of two months ago, the “pee alarm” was passed from Ashlyn to Hunter. I have been waiting SEVEN weeks to type this post and boy am I thrilled to be doing it now! Hunter has graduated from the pee alarm! We are now big-kid diaper free! To celebrate, Hunter and Ashlyn are enjoying a [...]
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Today is a new day (don’t read this if you don’t have a strong stomach)!
It was the night of Hunter’s Christmas performance at school. A night he had been looking forward to for many weeks. As a family we had planned to eat out first and then attend the performance together. Trent went out in the afternoon for a quick scouting trip in preparation for a hunting adventure planned [...]
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a bun in the oven & ornaments on the tree
My Thanksgiving was lovely. I hope yours was too. I volunteered to make something new this year for the meal: homemade rolls! Let me say, they were not only easy, but super yummy! I used a refrigerator roll recipe which allows you to make the dough ahead of time and simply cook as many as [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving
We have had some unusually cold weather here in Northern Idaho. The single digit numbers have been playing around with each other and even dipping below the zero mark here and there. We have to be selective about our time spent outside–better make it count! Today, a sled ride behind the 4-wheeler (if you look [...]
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The passing of the pee alarm
We now have a graduate! Just a little less than a month ago Ashlyn began the “pee alarm” adventure with the goal of training her brain to wake up her body during the night BEFORE having an accident in her bed. After having a week of dry nights and seeing regular successful midnight bathroom trips, [...]
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A pee what?
I have officially had it with wet nights. Every morning Quinten wakes up with a ripe poopy diaper (and usually clothes). Oh well, he’s only one, what can I expect? BUT his older siblings. . . well lets just say (hypothetically of course cause that wouldn’t be fair to have this on their public permanent [...]
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There is always something to be thankful for!
A week ago Sunday, Hunter was playing tag with his grandmother in the back yard. We have a little plastic house (shown in the photo below) that they often play in (or on). (by the way, don’t the clouds in this photo look fake?) In an attempt to escape his grandmothers tag, Hunter climbed up [...]
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There has to be more
Looking for the weekly giveaway post? It is right below this one;). It is midnight and tomorrow morning is Friday. The start of Labor Day weekend. Logically this is the wrong time to blog–no one is reading on a holiday weekend. Forget logic, I am pressing the “publish” button. Maybe it is just me, my [...]
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A month in review: courtesy of Cozi
Three months ago I started using a website called Cozi to organize my calendar (and my life). I LOVE IT!!!! If you don’t have a calender system that you love, you are in for a treat. Do you have an active family with mulitiple schedules? This just may be a dream come true for you. [...]
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Go to bed already!
I have discovered something about myself. If I am up working on the computer at night, I have a hard time stopping. I end up being up very late and at the end I find I am not doing anything productive, just killing time doing things like checking my facebook status instead of crawling into [...]
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This is me: 6 more quirky facts
As a follow up to my previous post, I am back to share more of my dirty laundry (more on that below). I have a little pet peeve about facebook status updates that are so cryptic, you can’t understand them unless you ask for more details. Such as, “Finally, it is finished!” or “These kind [...]
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delete-click, delete-click, etc.
So it turns out there are some fun advantages to having a son that is as detail orientated as Hunter. I have a tedious job that I have needed to do for quite some time. It involves sitting at the computer and hitting “delete” about 1,000 times (literally). There is no shortcut, it is just [...]
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Hunter’s 7th Birthday
“The list” was accomplished and we had a very full, very fun day. You can see it all here in this short 3 minute sideshow: Hunter’s 7th Birthday.
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Welcome 7
“Tonight is the last night you will ever be six again! I am so glad you are in our family and so thankful that God chose me to be your mommy! “ These are the words I said to Hunter last night before I kissed him good night. In true Hunter fashion he drafted a [...]
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