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Freebie Ideas for Summer Fun

Ah, summertime is upon us! A time for ice cream cones, popsicles, swimming, lightening bugs at night, BBQ’s, movie theatres, amusement parks and oh so much more. We sometimes get stuck in a rut doing the same things over and over again and it does good to think outside the box! There are times we tend to forget about the...

Falling Behind, Hating School and Finding Balance

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What do you say or do when your teen tells you that she (or he) is “afraid that I’m falling behind” and your grade schooler “hates school”? These were the very questions that our 16 year old daughter and 8 year old son said to me not long ago. She was visibly nervous before she calmly stated the question. I...

Reading Programs

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Ahhhhh, the feeling of reading a good book! Of course we desire for our children to have that same love of reading. I have done some research over the last month about reading programs available and am pleased with what I found and wanted to share the information with all of you. Please note that the first four are regular...

How to Give All Year

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Each year, I notice the amount of time spent on frenzied shopping, baked goodies, Christmas card lists, parties, the perfect gift for an acquaintance or co-worker, special meals with friends and family and oh so much more. With each year that passes, the kids get older, we have more friends spread throughout the world, we draw...

Lessons Learned as a Military Family

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When I first sat down to write this article, my mind was a flurry with partial ideas and the nervousness of what in the world do I share with people? How am I supposed to write something down to earth that will speak to their hearts and not sound preachy? What I came up with is to share with you a little about our life. As a...

Let’s Take This Show on the Road!

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Ah, Spring. Longer days, warmer climates. Budding flowers, blossoming verdure. Too bad I’m experiencing most of it from the inside of my car. Because I don’t know about you, but ’tis the season that the kids’ extracurricular activities take a big bolus of steroids and kick my collective hiney all over...

Please Re-Lease Me…

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I have a happy place. ….In my head. You should see it. The walls are painted a soft buttery yellow. There are light wood cabinets with generous counter tops. Several rolls of butcher paper are anchored conveniently adjacent to a low work table stocked with crayons, markers and other art supplies. There are framed pieces...

Movin’ & Schoolin’

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It wasn’t in my lesson plans. I didn’t have it scheduled for that summer. Heck, it wasn’t even on my radar. But after 15 years of living in my beloved Oklahoma, the summer of 2005 brought change on a major scale. We were moving. I’d had my share of moving as a kid, following the space shuttle program as...