Are you looking for more parenting encouragement? Hearts at Home has regular parenting information posted on the Pantagraph website. Every Sunday you’ll find the weekly Hearts at Home column that is published in the paper also on the website. On Tuesdays,...
I am so inspired! You all have such wonderful ideas! Here’s an overview of some of the great ideas that have been shared thus far:*Write the things your kids say or do right on your calendar and then keep the calendars.*Write in the journals as if you are...
Wow, already we’ve had six great ideas submitted for creative ways to keep the memories for your kids! I just love it when we can share with one another like this. If you haven’t already read the six ideas submitted, you’ll find them here. Remember...
I hope your Thanksgiving holiday was as wonderful as ours! We enjoyed spending time with friends and family and had some of our favorite foods like Beef House Rolls and Persimmon Pudding. I’m taking a week off from regular blogging to spend time with my hubby....
Did you all know that my 12-year-old son is the ONLY kid in seventh grade who doesn’t have his own phone? Well at least that’s what he just told me. Honestly, when picking him up after a school basketball game last week, my husband told me that every kid...
Tuesday night my boys and I worked together to fill three shoeboxes to send to Operation Christmas Child. I want this Christmas to be about giving more than any others, because I think it’s important for those of us who have so much to share with those who have...
I’m writing this post from a hotel room in Columbia, Missouri. I traveled here today with four teenagers…what was I thinking?Four weeks ago, our 17-year-old daughter, Erica, told me that she and her friend Elizabeth wanted to give their boyfriends an early...
Today I just found joy in the simple, yet diverse tasks of mothering. There was the usual laundry, making dinner, and checking homework. But today it was two of my older kids that needed my encouragement and time.After making new curtains for her bedroom this weekend...
Thursday night is the start of my husband’s weekend. Because his days off are Friday and Saturday, he always wants to do something fun on Thursday night like most people would normally do on Friday night. Over dinner we talked about what we might do like rent a...
The last month has been a challenging month for me physically. I haven’t felt well with my fibromyalgia and because of that, I stopped exercising. When I visited the doctor she asked if I was exercising and I couldn’t lie.”I was all summer,” I...
Tradition #6: The birthday person doesn’t have to do any of their regular chores on their birthday!Share your family’s birthday traditions by posting a comment to this blog post. Make sure and put your email address in the comment so I can contact you if...
Tradition #4: We recently started the tradition of going around the table at our birthday breakfast and having each person say one thing they appreciate about the birthday person. This fosters encouragement among family members and affirms the birthday person!Join our...
I just love when we run a contest because we can learn so much from each other! Thank you to all of you who have shared your birthday traditions. I’m getting so many new ideas!If you haven’t yet, do go through and read the comments from each birthday post...
Tradition #3: The birthday person gets to choose the kind of cake we have. Three of my kids always pick a funfetti cake, 1 picks chocolate, 1 likes a homemade ice cream cake. Post your birthday traditions to put your name in the hat for a Hearts at Home book of your...
Tradition #2: After the birthday person goes to sleep on the night before their birthday, we sneak into their room and decorate with streamers and balloons. We also make a waterfall of streamers that hang in their doorway so they have to walk through them every time...
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