Extraordinary Ideas for Ordinary Families
Welcome to your new favorite Fudge recipe. It’s easy and so delicious. It makes a full 9 x13 pan! Plenty to share with your coworkers or neighbors. This fudge has pretty much ruined all other fudges for me. Every time I taste fudge, I want it to taste like this amazing one cute mom used …
We love to meet once a week as a family on Monday night and have a lesson, scripture and activity! This is a joyful tradition that is a part of our family culture. However, sometimes we just mix it up for fun! After all the point is to create memories, learn life lessons and connect! …
I’ve started a new full time job as a High School teacher! It is a mental, physical and social work out! I am creating curriculum for the Family and Consumer Sciences Classes, I am overseeing the student council and all the activities, and crazily enough I am also in charge of the yearbook. Honestly, I …
The school year has started. I am teaching 4 new classes to High Schoolers, which means consistently striving to develop and deliver powerful curriculum for young minds. It is a hard fought battle to stay a couple steps ahead, and yet in some ways amazing to prepare all of the wonderful topics! While preparing, I …
Everyone has people in their life who are hard. It’s definitely part of the learning curve of life. There are people who are onery, argumentative, rude or dismissive and more. Some days we are in the right frame of mind, to just let it roll off of us, but some days we want to retaliate …
This smoothie has protein, carbohydrates and chia seeds! It is delicious and packs a nutritional punch! Plus is comes together in just a few minutes!
I love it when my kids are home for the summer! It’s our best chance to play. Honestly it is chaos of course. There are definitely more quarrels and messiness, but there is also an abundance laughter and new happy memories! Hooray for Summer! Here are some of our favorite ideas for day trips and …
Family Night is one of the best traditions to have for creating a feeling of togetherness, coordinating your activity calendar and overall connecting in your family! If you want to start this beautiful connection there are details here. This idea packs a powerful punch for creating a feeling of a team! Ideally, you are prepared …
Wow! It’s summer! Hooray! We love summer around here! I am a teacher, and I look forward to the different pace and chance to play with my people that summer beautifully brings. However, I also need/want to get a lot done. Let me share with you 3 simple ways to create a summer full of …
This past Saturday, we hired professional landscapers to trim our 30 foot palm trees and a few other trees around our house. Hours into the production of sawdust and falling branches, the tree trimmer, Tony came to me and told me he had accidentally cut down a baby hummingbird’s nest. He had placed the branch …