Don’t Smile, I Double Dog Dare You
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3 Family-Friendly Yoga Resources
Do you have a little yogi on your hands? Does your son burst into the tree pose when having a snack? Too cute. Does your daughter crawl under your downward dog? Yesterday we chatted honestly about how sometimes doing yoga at home with children underfoot can be more stressful than relaxing. Check out this simple ...
Help Your Child Start a Gratitude Journal
Today we are excited to showcase a guest post by Jodie Rodriguez from Growing Book by Book. Over 12 years ago, I began intentionally naming what I was grateful for in my life. On my birthday in 2000, I began a gratitude journal. Each day I set out to list at least five things I ...
Happiness in Giving
Today Rose made a pregnant woman cry. 7:40am The day started with this Instagram. My little ladies were diligently working on art projects when I mentioned “Today is Norah’s Mom’s birthday.” The girls decided it would be fun to make birthday cards for this close family friend. I pulled out a collection of blank card ...
Choose Beauty
Sometimes life throws you a wicked end-of-summer storm. The labor of your work is broken, scattered… ruined. You take in the damage and observe a moment of silence. You then have a choice: you can wallow in what is lost or you can… Pick up the pieces and make something beautiful. Today we took the ...
Magical Fairy Lights Fort
We are proud to showcase Lessons Learnt Journal and their “fort with fairy lights” this week. When we transition our fall decorations out of storage, I am grabbing our Christmas lights. In the book The Sense of Wonder Rachel Carson wrote: If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such ...
Adventures in Worm Poop
Guest Post by Carrie Miller That’s right, you read that correctly. I’m excited over worm poop. At my kids’ school this year, I had decided to restore the garden which was currently being maintained by only weeds and gophers. While working on this project, I overheard the terms “Worm Bin” and “vermicomposting”. After a little ...
The Story of Our Crap, I Mean “Stuff”
Empowering, liberating, therapeutic… these are all words I would use to describe our 100 Thing Weekend which quickly escalated to well over 1K things. We cleaned house, quite literally. It involved two carloads of donations, a trip to the local consignment shop, and a few garbage bags of trash. Shad and I are going to ...
Trash It Guilt Free :: 100 Things Update
I am up to 64 items as of this moment. Many of you surpassed me this week. You guys ROCK. Not quite sold on the idea yet? Take a lesson on life from a five year old. Read this insightful article from the blog Organizing Our Way. In the end if you simplify with She-ra ...
Take 100 things off your house’s waistline
2013 GOAL: Are you being overrun by toys and papers too? I feel as if the kids’ toys are multiply in the night. Would you like to join me in a 2013 goal? This weekend we are kick-starting “Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life” with a “Get Rid of 100 Things Weekend.” I’m smitten with this ...
