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Valentine's Day
For Valentine’s Day, we keep it simple and sweet around here. A little bit of chocolate and something small to surprise our kids in the morning as a reminder that we love them all year long! It could be a...
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Christmas Gift Ideas for Kids Part 2
We have a few more amazing gift ideas to share with you today! Gifts that we are actually giving to our kids this Christmas season from companies that we have loved working with. Our kids wish lists are filled with...
Kids Toys and Books
Christmas Gift Ideas for Kids
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! We love sharing the gifts we are giving our kids from some of our go-to companies and hopefully inspire you to do the same. Every year we love partnering with companies to...
Kids Toys and Books
Family Puzzling & Trivia with Cobble Hill
At Christmas time, our family gets pretty committed to puzzling as we cozy up with some hot chocolate and a few good snacks; making a pretty great afternoon of family fun. We know Cobble Hill makes amazing puzzles so we...
Kids Toys and Books
Fall Books with Penguin Random House
We are sharing some book titles from Penguin Random House as our weeks are usually filled with learning from and reading books to our children. Homeschooling gives us a lot of hours to read or learn from books and we...
Kids Toys and Books
Fall Reading List with Kane Miller
With back to school just around the corner we are curating a new fall book reading list for our kids. Our kids love keeping track of the books they read and we recently found some excellent new adventure stories and...
Kids Toys and Books
Easy Set-Up Activities with Djeco
There is something about setting up a few new activities for our children to try in the morning that feels productive. We find that when we leave a puzzle, sticker activity, new book, or notebook on the table, our kids...
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Tea Party with Our Generation Dolls
As a kid did you ever play family or pretend with your friends, siblings or neighbours? As a mom, it is so precious watching your own kids play pretend with their own dolls and setting up an entire world using...
Kids Toys and Books
Summer Book List
Every summer our kids fall in love with reading even more. Maybe it’s the extra free time, maybe it’s the warm air, maybe we will never know the reason but in summer, our family loves to read. We love bringing...
Kids Toys and Books
Summer Playtime with Playmobil
First day of summer is here! The heat has come where we live and we are loving our days outside, soaking up that good old vitamin D. With the ages of our kids, parenting in the summer is significantly easier...
Family
Gardening Tips with Devry
I think I may be the most under qualified gardener. This is basically my second year gardening and it seems like every week I am learning something new. I don’t know much, but I wanted to share with you three...
Journal
Educational Books from Penguin
Even though we are almost wrapping up our official school year soon, that doesn’t mean that we will stop learning for two months. Our kids love to read - on their own or us reading to them - so we...
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Summer Book Titles with Raincoast
Summer is a great time to create a reading list for your kids. We like to bring books on road trips, enjoy them in our backyard or cozy up on the couch to read on a rainy summer day. Raincoast...
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Spring Learning
Summer is just around the corner and we always get a bit of a pep in our step when it comes to homeschooling in the late springtime. You can see the end in sight and we know there is one...
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Snuggle Up with Valentine's Day Gift Ideas
Our kids have just finished preparing little Valentine’s cards for their homeschool community class and we have a few gift ideas for kids that we wanted to share with you as we are a week out from Valentine’s Day. You...
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Christmas Gift Ideas from Learning Resources
Sprinkling in a few learning games for our fellow homeschool families that are looking to add a few gifts under the tree that help develop learning through play. We love Learning Resources for all that they carry in this department...
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Bible Storybook with Crossway
This year we have been using The Biggest Story Bible Storybook for part of our Bible curriculum for homeschooling. I know that in addition to reading straight from scripture, I wanted a storybook type bible that worked through the bible...
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Holiday Gift Guide For Kids
If you are looking for Christmas gift ideas for a child aged 3 all the way up to 10 you have come to the perfect place. Today we are sharing so many great options that make amazing gifts for children...
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Holiday Cozy with RW&CO
With sun-kissed skin, we are both coming back from around the world to the coziness of fall, the start of the holiday season and the colder weather that comes with it. Let’s face it, even though the days are colder,...
Family
Front Porch Refresh for Fall with Devry
Happy Thanksgiving Monday! We hope you have been able to spend so much time reflecting on everything that we are grateful for and are able to tell the ones close to you that you love them. We wanted to share...
Kids Toys and Books
Art and Craft Activities from Djeco
Thursdays is when we usually get lots of housework done, sometimes some baking and definitely an afternoon indoor activity, usually around the table. Our older kids are in school and we love to pull out a special activity or craft...
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Bushel and Peck Books for Fall
You know we love stocking our shelves with books or checking out books from library that are filled with incredible content for our children. Bushel and Peck Books publish many excellent titles for children that encourage children to develop their...
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Fall Toys with Playmobil
Families are always asking what is the best toy for children? Playmobil is a brand that we have loved in our home for many years and it truly is one of the best toys. The durability and quality of pieces...
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Fall with Raincoast Books
It feels like fall routines have already begun and although we are loving the sunshine, the air in the morning and evening feels cooler reminding us that fall is indeed just around the corner. The fall reminds us of cozy...
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