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4 Moms Share Family Traditions

Buffet decorated for Thanksgiving

This week the 4 Moms of Many are talking about family traditions.  Traditions help give our children a sense of family history and culture and a feeling of belonging.   They are experts on their own family traditions. Traditions also create lasting memories. It’s fun to listen to a 4 or 5 year old say…

Christmas Gifts to Make: 4 Moms

knit hat mittens scarf

This week the four moms are talking Christmas and sharing ideas for gifts and crafts.  Be sure to link up your creative ideas at the bottom of this post and visit Deputy Headmistress, Connie and KimC. Choosing and making Christmas gifts is one of the highlights of the holidays for our children.  The older ones…

Salt Dough Recipe and Olive Preschool

salt dough

Every morning after chore time and before I tackle school work with the older children I spend some time with our youngest children.  We call this preschool and our little ones enjoy the focused time with mom and getting to choose a fun activity each day.  Sometimes they have a whole week of activities selected…

4 Moms Open House Bedrooms Part 2

Welcome to the 4 Moms, 35 Kids open house.  Please visit other open house posts and link up at the bottom of this post Last week we looked at the boy’s and the little girl’s bedrooms.   This week we’ll peek into our big girl’s room and the master bedroom. Master Bedroom Our master bedroom…

4 Moms Open House: Bedrooms Part 1

Welcome to the 4 Moms, 35 Kids open house tour.  We’ve toured the yard and entryway, the kitchen and dining room and the school/living areas.  This week we’ll peak into some of our bedrooms (more bedrooms next week) and you’ll have the opportunity to link up your bedroom tour posts. Boy’s room Home to our…

4 Moms Open House: Kitchen and Dining Room

Welcome to the second week of  4 Moms: How Moms of Many Manage open house.  Please feel free to link up your post tour of your kitchen and dining room below and visit the other moms of many KimC, Connie and The Deputy Headmistress to see how things work in their food areas. Last week…

4 Moms Open House: Yard and Entry

Welcome to our month long open house series. Each Thursday during the month of August 4 Moms and 35 Kids ( Connie, Deptuty Headmistress, KimC and I)  invite you into our homes for a glimpse at how we  set up, organize and manage homes for our larger than average families. This week we’ll cover our…

Flower Hair Clip Tutorial

Savannah flower on headband

I’m sure you’ve seen the little crocheted baby hats with huge flowers on them, so cute.  Since I love making baby hats I was on the look out for a way to inexpensively incorporate these huge flowers, different colors with different hats to match different outfits. These inexpensive, easy to make flower hair clips fit…

Hamburger and Ant Cupcakes

ant hamburger cupcakes

One of the lovely women that I met at Blissdom is Liz who blogs at Hoosier Homemade.  Liz is super creative in the kitchen and her particular specialty is cupcakes. When I saw these amazing ant and hamburger cupcakes featured on her blog last week I knew that our little cupcake lover (Sadie, 6) would…

Crocheted Baby Hat with Flower Pattern

baby hat

I’ve been inspired to get out the crochet hooks and make some baby hats for some friend’s children.  (I enjoy both knitting and crocheting because there’s very little mess or space required.)  Here is one that I made for Connie’s baby girl who is due in a few months.  (Did you know that Connie and…