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The New Year is a time to reflect on the past year, and make new goals and commitments for the coming year. Popular resolutions for the New Year include improving our well-being (by losing weight, exercising more, eating better, stop drinking, stop smoking), improving our finances by getting out of debt or getting a better [...]

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Before our son was diagnosed with food allergies, I was one of those parents that swore no school was ever going to tell me what my children could and could not eat at school. After all, these are my children and it is my job to raise them, and decide their nutritional needs, not the [...]

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One of our favorite Christmas traditions is watching the movie ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’. I love how Linus had the courage to be so bold, and to explain to Charlie Brown the true meaning of Christmas, when he saw Charlie Brown’s frustrations with how commercialized Christmas had become. Have you ever noticed that Linus drops [...]

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To say this year has been a trying year for our family is an understatement, but through it all, we have never lost our faith in God. We have always believed that everything happens for a reason, and that God will never give us more than we can handle. Just in time for Christmas, we [...]

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I am happy to say, we have thoroughly enjoyed our new Christmas tradition of the Elf on the Shelf this year. Yes, there were some nights it was a daunting task to remember to move out little visitor, but watching our boys wake up every morning to hunt for the elf made this Christmas tradition [...]

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Image courtesy of My Marbles Ok, well not just me, but our entire Kindergarten Class!!!! A little inspiration from Pinterest and Jill, of Meet the Dubiens Two of my fellow room moms asked if I knew of any fun Christmas crafts our Kindergarten class could do during the Christmas party, and I knew the reindeer [...]