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5 Things to Consider About Slumber Parties, by Holly
It is fun to make a friend online that you’ve never met in person. That happened with Laura and I through our blogs. We are on the same journey, just at different points along the way. We both have...
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The Lateover solution to Slumber Parties
Frozen bras. Sneaking out to teepee houses. Watching Children in the Corn. Consulting the Ouija Board. I wasn’t ready for the world of slumber parties when my girls started asking about them about the...
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When you Can’t Stay
My stomach surged. I walked in denial, refusing to call sin sin. I was worried. My sweet Bird would be spending a week on a college campus. Playing soccer, eating, sleeping, and playing soccer in...
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Parenting Advice I Actually Used
Dear readers, I am back after a week of travel. We went from Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago to four days on a working farm where the girls chased goats and searched the hay barn for chicken eggs....
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Tween magazine reviews: Seventeen
Sometime during the tween years, the Christmas wish list changes. There are no toys. The list, if she will give you any ideas, is filled with higher priced electronics, clothing (if she trusts anyone...
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Tween magazine reviews: American Girl Magazine
Time for another magazine review. But first, general thoughts on magazines for tweens. Every magazine has the potential to print advice you don’t like. I doubt there is a magazine out there that...
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Friend or Frenemy? Helping Girls Recognize True Friends
I have three daughters. Three wonderful, sweet, fun girls to be around. We are blessed to live in a neighborhood with LOTS of girls. This means lots of friends to play with at any moment. But I have to...
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SITS Day Is Here
When I started blogging,I knew what content I wanted to write about, but not how to use technology. I learned the basics of blogging and then more advanced aspects through a website called SITS Girls....
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Tween Magazine Reviews: Girls’ Life Magazine
Girl’s Life magazine is what Seventeen was when I was a tween: tons of fashion, celebrity reports, quizzes, and a lot of information on how to get a boyfriend. Its website claims it’s held the #1 spot...
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Quote Art- A Gift for Giving?
Need a craft to do with your daughter? Or an activity that will keep her and friends busy for hours? Try this quotation art project. You can’t get it done in one sitting. It will take two or three...
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The Trouble With Christmas Wish Lists
Sometimes publishing posts make me nervous. What if I don’t communicate my heart well and you misunderstand? God has laid this on my heart so here goes: Last week, a post on Facebook shook me. It said...
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Thanks for the ugly sweater and thank you printables
I am curious, is writing thank you notes is old fashioned? Do you make your kids write them? I do. Every Christmas. Every birthday. We don’t have family in state so most of the girls’ gifts come in...
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No More Perfect Moms
Do you remember the post Stop Chasing Picture Perfect? I didn’t know it at the time, but it is the introductory post to a new theme for the year: No More Perfect Moms. If you are a mommy blogger or a...
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12 Posts from 2012 You Should Read
In the blogging world, titles are king. The time of day you list your post on Facebook and Twitter are advisory cabinets. So sometimes, the posts listed over there on the right, the popular posts,...
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Pracitce Loving
Bug comes down the stairs pouting. Her sister is growing up. She hates it. Bug really wants to be a twin to her older sister. That way interests might change at the same rate. For now, my oldest is...
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7 Things To Consider BEFORE your tween starts talking about dating
Memories of “couples” standing next to the bus, kissing, linger in my middle school memories. Tongue kissing was an important way to earn status. Moms, experienced teachers in your girls’ schools will...
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Unbridled Joy
Their unabashed joy is makes us smile. Watching my toddler squeal over the bin of snow I brought in for her to play with is unnerving because I rarely have that enthusiasm. Initially the squeal is for...
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Kids Can Be So UnKind
If you are a mom you already know the reference to reacting like a momma bear. As a female bear guards her cubs with a murderous ferocity, we too, as moms, can react this way when our children are...
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Books for Tweens: Stories to teach empathy (and maybe bravery)
Have you ever tried to coax your girl to be nice to the kid others avoid? She listens, but the next time you are in the lunch room, that same lonely kid is still had no tablemates. And you sigh because...
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Confession: I am a disorganized STAHM
Sigh. I always thought I wasn’t a perfectionist. I don’t need things to be perfect(I just don’t try to do them if I don’t think I can do it well). I can handle living in a mess (for a time). Jill...
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