Can you believe Advent is just a few weeks away? I can’t…especially with temperatures still in the 80’s. Amazing. With Advent being just a few weeks out, we had our annual sign-ups for our church’s “Advent Wreath Workshop”, where we’ll be making advent wreaths together as a parish family for use in our homes. I had prepared a table in…
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8th Day of Advent: Joseph & the Coat of Many Colors Are you looking for a way to bring more faith – and faith focused fun – to your Advent season? We are so excited to share our new book: Our Family’s Jesse Tree. This printable eBook contains over 80 pages of detailed ornament templates (like the one shown above),…
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11th Day of Advent: Joshua, Rahab, and the Jericho Wall Are you looking for a way to bring more faith – and faith focused fun – to your Advent season? We are so excited to share our new book: Our Family’s Jesse Tree. This printable eBook contains over 80 pages of detailed ornament templates (like the one shown above),…
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10th Day of Advent: Ten Commandments (tablets) Are you looking for a way to bring more faith – and faith focused fun – to your Advent season? We are so excited to share our new book: Our Family’s Jesse Tree. This printable eBook contains over 80 pages of detailed ornament templates (like the one shown above), daily scripture readings…
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20th Day of Advent: John the Baptist (baptismal shell) Are you looking for a way to bring more faith – and faith focused fun – to your Advent season? We are so excited to share our new book: Our Family’s Jesse Tree. This printable eBook contains over 80 pages of detailed ornament templates (like the one shown above), daily scripture…
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9th Day of Advent: Moses & the Burning Bush Are you looking for a way to bring more faith – and faith focused fun – to your Advent season? We are so excited to share our new book: Our Family’s Jesse Tree. This printable eBook contains over 80 pages of detailed ornament templates (like the one shown above), daily…
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Mmm…nothing smells like fall more than the amazing smell of pumpkin muffins baking in the kitchen. I love pumpkin flavored anything, and really wanted to share the wonderful taste with our family – but in a healthy way. I took a favorite recipe of ours, tweaked it a bit, and came up with these outstanding healthy pumpkin muffins stuffed with…
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Happy (almost) Halloween! With Halloween being just two weeks away – and our church’s bake sale this weekend – I couldn’t resist making Halloween desserts. I’ve always been a fan of s’mores, and took that concept, added a bit of pumpkin and Halloween flair, and came up with Halloween S’mores. So fun – and so easy, as it’s based on…
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Last week we shared an interview with Judy Smith, the author of Egree’s Journey (the children’s book we recently shared). Today, we’re back in an interview with Sondra Parks, the incredibly talented artist who brought the story to life with her illustrations in the book. Me: “So tell me…how long have you been such a creative genius? I love the drawings…
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Today I am very pleased to share with you an exclusive interview with Judy Smith, the author of Egree’s Journey (the children’s book we recently shared). Judy is a talented, gifted woman and I had the opportunity to sit down with her recently to chat about her new book. Me: So tell me…where did your inspiration for this wonderful children’s book come…
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September 23rd is National Family Day where we are all encouraged to – at least for the day – sit down and eat dinner as a family. It sounds so simple…but truly there’s no better time to engage your family then around the dinner table. Family Day was founded in 2001 by CASAColumbia. Family Day is a national movement to…
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I have the pleasure of reviewing Egree’s Journey by Judy Smith, a sweet children’s book that centers around a Great Egret named Egree. She is a sweet, kind bird who sets out on a journey to find a new home and ends up finding not only a place to call her own but finding friends, a sense of community, and…
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September 14th marks an important feast day, and we have an Exaltation of the Holy Cross activity to help you celebrate! First, a bit of background on this feast day. To Christians worldwide, the cross symbolizes the essence of their faith: that by the cross Christ died and yet rose again. The cross became a symbol of Christ’s resurrection and…
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I have the pleasure of joining in a tour for the wonderful book My Mama and Me by Crystal Bowman & Teri McKinley. This children’s book is comprised of 25 daily devotions – each daily activity includes: a bible verse, which provides the context for that day’s devotion and introduces children to the concept of verses (or, conversely, reinforces verses if…
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After reading “The Berenstain Bears Discover God’s Creation” last month (see the review here) and learning about all the wonderful “discoveries”” they made, I thought we’d do a bit of discovery work on our own and see what creatures WE could discover! You already know I’m a huge fan of hand-print crafts, so when a friend and I decided to make…
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