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February 17th, 2010

Simple Birthday Cakes

For a number of reasons we have chosen to keep birthday celebrations fairly simple at our home.  We have many special traditions and activities for each birthday, but a few years ago I discovered a way to allow children to participate in creating their birthday cake while saving me lots of time and energy.

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December 10th, 2009

Monogrammed Burlap Pillows: Kids Can Make This

Here is another gift that our younger children (1, 3, 4, 6 and 7 year old) are making for family this year.  (Don’t worry, I warned the family who regularly reads my blog not to read this week, so hopefully no surprises will be ruined.)

I saw this at We are THAT Family and once again [...]

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November 2nd, 2009

Dressing for Church

Abba 12 who blogs at New Beginnings saw the picture of our two little boys getting into the sugar trouble last week before church and commented, “Where do you find the clothes in their sizes without costing a fortune? What do the girls wear? I would love to see a picture next week of [...]

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August 22nd, 2009

Yard Sale Saturday: Slim Pickin’s

Just so you don’t think that I find amazing deals every time I go out, I thought I’d include one of my less productive Saturdays. (Remember that I post at least a week behind on these yard sale posts.)

I spent $1.50 today, plus $10 of some one elses money.

I bought this Spirograph set [...]

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August 15th, 2009

Yard Sale Saturday: Trains

I’m posting this (and every) yard sale Saturday a week behind, in other words I found all of these things last week BEFORE Colby’s train birthday.

Mark was out of town camping with the big boys, so I shopped with the 5 girls and 2 boys.  You’ll see that the kids did well with their [...]

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