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A Guide to Elementary Sleep Overs
Hello, imaginary friends! I hope you all had as good of a weekend as I did. My Facebook and Insta feeds are full of all your fall activities and cute fall outfits and…
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My First PTA Board Meeting as President
Tonight, I hosted my first PTA board meeting as President. I thought I’d share some details, in case any of you happen to also have “sucker” tattooed on your foreheads, too. I have…
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WARNING: You are now entering the “too cool” phase of parenting!
This Sunday, we were sitting in church together as a family. The first 20 minutes or so of our service is praise and worship music, and so we were all standing up singing…
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WWJD: Summer Snack Trays
I mentioned on Instagram the other day that I had a parenting mentor. I tossed it out there jokingly, but the more I thought about it, the more it is absolutely true. Jamie…
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Nerf War Birthday Party
Bean turned nine the last week of school, but we decided to have his party after school had ended and everyone’s schedules settled down a bit. Also, we wanted to wait until Gracie…
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Books My Kids Are Reading: Ages 7 and 9
It’s been a while since I’ve shared about our books around here. I’ll do a post later about my summer reading list, but I thought I’d give some ideas for books for kids…
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Ideas for a Girl Scout Bridging Ceremony
This past Saturday, my mom and I hosted Gracie’s Daisy troop bridging ceremony at my house. Our Girl Scout troop was bridging from Daisies to Brownies, which happens at the end of 1st…
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How to Mom: Multicultural Day
So, a few weeks ago, Gracie brought home this huge Multicultural Day project. She was super excited and wanted to start working on it right away, but I told her we had two…
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The Sneaky Entrepreneur
I picked Bean and Gracie up from their aftercare program yesterday afternoon and one of the teachers pulled me aside. “Um… Mrs. Brown… Michael has been making rainbow loom bracelets for all the…
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A BOX TOPS CRISIS! and other suburban moments.
First of all, all day long I thought it was Wednesday until about 4:00 when another teacher said something about how excited she was that tomorrow was Wednesday and I was like, *record…
