New Years resolutions. Did these top your list? Lose 30 pounds. Be nicer. Eat healthier food. Attend church regularly. Have a consistent quiet time. Most likely, if you set some goals for 2015 you have already broken a good percentage of them. Sadly most resolutions rarely last more than a week. Because of this the Christian ...
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Visiting St Louis…Take 2
source Do you remember the post I shared of great family-friendly places to visit in St. Louis? Well we made our trip and tried a few of these places for ourselves. Had a ball. And I am finally sitting down to share with you our experiences. First. St Louis is a fabulous place to take a vacation. There are so, ...
How to Make Your Own Super Cool Cardboard Building Blocks
source When I was a kid, we had cardboard blocks similar to the ones pictured above in the church nursery. After church we would scamper to the back room to build huge walls and towers. We'd create architectural masterpieces and then some fellow builder would lose her balance causing the walls to come tumbling down. But ...
Family Friendly Must-Sees in St. Louis
source Our family along with some dear friends are headed to St Louis soon for a little vacation. A sweet ABCJLM user saw a pin that I posted for ideas for our visit and shared insight that she has as a St. Louis resident. St. Louis is known as a family-friendly city with ample amount of activities to do, many at no cost. ...
What to Do with All This Candy!
After Halloween, there is a big question floating in the air. "What are we going to do with all of this candy?" Other than rotting teeth, adding width to the waist, and giving all children a sugar high, nothing good can come from all this sugar. Or can it? Here are a few character education ideas: Tithe it Create a ...
Ten Tips to Introduce Your Child to Church
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How to Survive Church with Wiggly Children
This post has been updated. Click to discover 26 Tips to Attend Church with Kids. This week we have been discussing the series "Surviving Church with Children." Ideas to help you return to church, keep your children quiet during church, and how to worship with special needs children. I pray that you will glean practical ideas to help you ...
Because God is Awesome! Family Devo
Have you noticed how child ask the best questions? Honest. Real. Sometime brutal. And after the question, sometimes I am speechless. Surprised by the depth of the question and dumbfounded how I am going to answer it. Oftentimes the hardest questions are about God. Because God Is Awesome!: Discovering How ...
How to Make Homemade Ice Cream in a Bag
Several times in my teenage years, I had the opportunity to make individual servings of homemade ice cream. As an activity at church and youth group a few times. We actually made it at school in a Family Living class I took to provide us with examples of creating traditions in a family. It was fun and memorable experience each time. In creating ...
Hotel Rooms, Vacation, and Kids: 16 Tips to Success
Could we actually do this away from home? Live life as a family of six without our own beds? A local hotel voucher was just the ticket to answer our question, enabling us to be close to home and forgo the huge financial commitment. Call it a trial run. So we made our reservations, packed our bags, and began our first hotel visit. ...