My son Jack Jack is 5 and he absolutely HATED writing at the beginning of the school year! In-fact at the beginning of the school year he would throw a fit every time I tried to help him write anything. He absolutely despised d’s and b’s and was confused by m’s and n’s. I…
The Not Even Once Club
On Monday the kids were sitting around the table eating dinner. We still needed to have family night and I hadn’t figured out what to talk about. Then I remembered that Deseret Book had sent me this cute book called “The Not Even Once Club”. So I looked it over and thought it would be…
10 Ways to Encourage Your Kids to Do a Triathlon
Every year in the town I live by they do 2 Mini Triathlons for kids, one in the spring and one in the fall. My brother comes down to do the adult one and brings his family! I have done it with him in years past when I don’t have a nursing baby. For the…
LeapFrog Monsters University Games
My kids loved the movie Monsters Inc., and are very excited for the new Monsters University to come out next week! Leapfrog has teamed up with Disney to make these really fun games for both the LeapPads and Tag Readers. My kids were so excited to play these games! The Cartridge game for the LeapPad…
Principles to Financial Freedom
So today I am going to get on my soap box and talk about debt… How long have professionals encouraged us to STAY OUT OF DEBT? Do we listen? Probably not all of us! Why? Why is it that we struggle with this so much. Not only our prophets, but finance professional encourage human beings…
Win 2 tickets to the Latter-day Learning Homeschool Conference
I am so so so excited to go to this conference next weekend. It is going to be awesome! Beside the fact that there are going to be amazing speakers. I just need a little break in life! So it will be nice to go and visit family and learn some great things I can…
Strider Bike Review and Giveaway
This Giveaway is over. Thanks to everyone that entered. The winner is Katie W. (on rafflecopter it says Katie Wright Thorpe) Please email me ASAP to claim your prize. a Rafflecopter giveaway Have you heard of these bikes? They are so cool. I was excited when Strider Bikes offered to send me a strider bike to review…
Keeping a Clean House – Let’s Start with the Bathrooms
As most of you know I like a clean house. A lot of my friends probably think I spend hours cleaning and picking up after my kids. The trick is…I don’t! No my house isn’t the sparkly clean, but it is picked up after and I don’t have lots of piles. {which I do have…
Come Follow Me – Young Women Binders for Class
I am loving teaching the Young Women (Mia Maids age 14-15) in my ward. I haven’t served in Young Women’s for over 10 years, so when my husband started telling me all about the new Come Follow Me teaching curriculum I was so nervous, but now that I am teaching it, I am loving it. It is…
What age do I start having my kids do daily chores?
Do your kids help around the house? Or do you do everything for them? Do you think it is easier for you to do it yourself? Sometimes it is. But I am telling you…after a year of consistency my kids are actually doing a great job at their chores and helping around the house. It doesn’t take…