Holidays like Easter are great for families to get together and enjoy themselves. However, the commercial aspect of candy and jelly beans has really taken over. I try not to let my kids eat candy. So even though they won’t be enjoying any chocolate bunnies or peeps in my home, I still want my girls […]
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My girls and I enjoyed watching Smurfs: The Lost Village. Thanks Sony Pictures Entertainment for allowing us to have advanced screening tickets and for the awesome printable activities. The movie was perfect for my family because it was all about loving yourself just the way you are. As we watched the movie, I saw my
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Sometimes it’s not until a child is school-age that the parents find out their child is considered gifted by state standards. Going through testing can be a headache and stressful for the parents and the child. While on one hand, parents yearn to nourish their child’s talents and skills without sacrificing their innocence and the
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I’m grateful that Shoplet.com sent us new watercolor pens that we can use in our home drawing class. Their timing was perfect because this year our home school instruction includes art lessons. My husband gave my girls a lesson on how to make a picture using watercolors. Last week, I shared our Cherry Blossoms pictures
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I finally saw the movie Hidden Figures. I remember writing a post that mentioned Katherine Johnson last year (“We Belong Among The Stars”) and I knew it was a movie that I wanted to watch with my daughters. Hidden Figures, is not just about black women who worked for NASA, but it is about learning
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In the Washington, DC area, cherry blossoms are a huge deal. For people who aren’t familiar with these trees, cherry blossoms are the national flowers of Japan. There are a variety of different species and hybrids. As Japanese and American relationships grew, Japan donated over 3,000 of these flowering trees to the US when President
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There are many life events that can cause a family to move from a two-income earning household to only one. Some of the life events that can cause families to be forced to live on only one income are: a bad accident that hinders a person’s ability to work, health challenges, caring for an aging
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