In this post, you will get 20 fun ideas for easy handmade gifts. Whether you’re looking for birthday or Christmas gifts, these ideas are all easy inexpensive gifts to make. Every one of the pictures below is from the original source website & all the links go to the tutorials. They’re all easy gifts to …
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In this post, you will learn the BEST toddler gift ideas! Whether it’s for a birthday, Christmas gifts, or just for fun, I guarantee your toddlers will love these. How do I know? We have had a toddler in our house for the last 7 years. (All 4 of our kids were born within 5 …
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Complete Guide to Celebrating Christmas with Little Kids [Updated 2020]This post is meant to be an all-in-once resource for Christmas with kids. It has a LOT packed in – everything from modeling gratitude & generosity to Advent ideas to figuring out how MUCH (or little) to actually get your kids & what are the best …
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Our zero-degree-freeze-the-snot-inside-your-nose midwestern winters are in full swing, and we are officially hibernating. I bought 3 months worth of food and we’re not leaving the house until April. The freezing months of winter here cause us to get a little bit creative with our indoor activities. And by creative, I mean, my kids play with our …
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In this post, you will get all the details on each baby item and whether or not it’s a “must have” for your baby registry. Creating a baby registry is understandably overwhelming because, well, you’ve never had a baby before! It’s so hard to know what you’re really going to need or want. Plus, it’s …
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Between Etsy, Zazzle, Amazon Homemade, and Social Print Studio, not to mention Shutterfly, Blurb, Mixbook, and on and on, there are a ton of custom gift options out there. It’s hard to know what will be high quality, worth the money, and not too time-consuming. This custom gift guide has the 8 best gifts we’ve seen and …
How cute is this little Emma book!? We just received Emma’s custom photo board book from Pint Size Productions in the mail and she is loving it! TEACH YOUR TODDLER FAMILY MEMBERS’ NAMES We first found out about Pint Size when Addie was given one of these by one of her grandmas. It was perfect because …
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This will be my 5th year reading through this Advent devotional: The Greatest Gift. I already pulled it out so I won’t miss December 1. Do you want to read through it together? We could comment together on instagram or facebook… You will love this book. It is so so good. I love reading all my notes …
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A couple things you should know about us before you read my book recommendations: I took a class on children’s books in college. Based on my tuition costs per semester, that class cost approximately $3,000. That’s how much I like kids’ books. I currently spend a decent amount of my waking hours reading to the small …
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When we first looked into cloth diapering, I was SO OVERWHELMED by all the information out there. There are entire blogs dedicated to cloth diapering that have reviewed every.single.cloth.diaper. Ever. Which is helpful for some people. But, it was way too much information for me, and it made cloth diapering sound really overwhelming. I do not …
Call me a toy snob, but those irritating, noise-making toys drive me nuts. You know…. the ones that sing obnoxious songs and then when the batteries start wearing out, the singing toy sounds like it’s dying. They always seem to be stuck underneath a pile of something and keep going off over and over. So, …
My brother and I played with legos ALL THE TIME as kids. I’m pretty sure my parents still have several 30-gallon rubbermaid containers full of legos. I really hope that our kids play with legos. Not that we’ll pressure them. But we probably will. Because Emma is still at the eat-tiny-things age, we have duplos …