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5 Helpful Online Learning Tips for Little Students

As tough as this year has been on a family like ours, my heart goes out to those with little kids. Parents can groan about older kids having to learn online, but for the most part my kids are self-sufficient.…

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New School Stations

I’m not an expert in Feng shui, interior design, or even crafting. In fact, we have an entire series of videos of me being terrible at anything DIY. But by the end of the last school year it became obvious…

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Preparing Our Kids For School

It’s a stressful time for parents no matter what you are doing about school. Our kids are feeling our anxiety and I want to do everything possible to help them with that. So, we brought in an expert on the…

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What I Hope My Kids Learn This School Year

The start of this school year feels so unsteady. On a family trip to the mountains a few years ago, we cautiously shuffled across this mile high suspension bridge. Once we were to the middle of the bridge, huge gusts…

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The Back to School Decision

Are you struggling with what to do about school this year? Us too. Every parent I know has spent the last few weeks in deep conversation about what decision to make for their children. There are so many things to…

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A late start to 2018

I love a new year. Some people roll their eyes at resolution-makers, but not me. If resolution-making were a hobby, I’d finally have something to write in that awkward space on forms at the doctor’s office. (BTW, why does the…

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Marriage

Device addiction: He’s texting and I know it.

We have a confession to make. Penn and I are dependent on our our phones in an unhealthy way. We admit it. We run a business that depends on consistent communication and fast responses. The phone has become an appendage…

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Food

The Great Pumpkin Debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FlZlzdxBzI Where do you stand on this debate? Penn is staunchly anti-pumpkin. Kim, is PRO PUMPKIN! PUMPKIN EVERYTHING! What do you think?…

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Marriage

My husband has an STD (Shutting Things Deficiency)

The dishes piling up in the sink? It’s not my favorite but I can deal. Clothes piled near the hamper? Frustrating, but part of life. But the cabinet doors. I can’t. The drawers? No. WHY? Why can’t my husband close…

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Penn’s secret talent revealed!

When I was in fourth grade, practicing diligently on my recorder, I heard my mother mutter “…… THE DEVIL’S FLUTE…” cover her ears and walk away. Now that I’m a mother, I get it. The sound of a plastic recorder…

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