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This is our third winter in Utah but today was the first time any of our girls have been sledding!

There wasn’t a bit of snow on the ground at our house, but a park a few miles from us had plenty (plus nice steep hills).

We got everyone geared up and took our sleds over and spent an hour flying down the hills.

It was SO fun!

One of my biggest goals when ever we move somewhere new is to take advantage of the fun things in that place and today definitely felt like a win in that category.

#bradshawsaturdays

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Do you use a paper planner or are you al digital? Or some combo of the two?

I use both and I’m sharing how I use them on my blog today!

Tell me what your preferred planning and scheduling method is in the comments! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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The girls and I just finished PRAIRIE LOTUS as our read-aloud and it was SO good.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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(You may recognize Linda Sue Park’s name because of her Newbery-winning book A SINGLE SHARD).⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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My girls love the Little House on the Prairie books and have listened to the whole series multiple times and this was such a great book set in the same time period and in the same places but with a different spin.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Almost every night, one of my girls would say “I LOVE this book” and I couldn’t agree more.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Have you read it?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#janssenreadsaloud #ownvoices

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Get your headphones ready! 🎧 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I have a whole list of all our favorite books that are included in Audible Plus on my blog today with titles ranging from toddler picks to grown-up listens!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Hop over to see the whole list!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And let me know in the comments if you have an Audible Plus subscription! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#janssenlovesaudiobooks

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What does your ideal weekend look like? (We are talking within reason - no 24 hour trips to Morocco).⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Mine would DEFINITELY include going to see a movie on my own (the most luxurious treat!) and going to get ice cream as a family (the benefit of going as a family is that I can try 6x as many flavors 😂).⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Also, definitely friends or family over for backyard s’mores and all my children sleeping in while I get up early to read in the quiet hours of the morning.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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How about you? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#everydayreadingbookclub

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I don’t know exactly what Valentine’s Day is going to look like for our family this year, but I’m still determined to make it fun.

My girls LOVE chalk (if you come to our house, odds that our sidewalk, front steps and porch are covered with colorful drawings and words are 95% or more) and these a really fun, simple Valentine’s project!

Hop over to my blog to see the step-by-step directions!

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Have any of you used Story Graph?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I just heard about it last week when several readers mentioned it on my Goodreads post and I’ve been testing it out.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It’s pretty cool!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I’ll probably do a whole post about it - any questions you want me to answer?

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Do you make annual photo books?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I'm doing both my 2019 and 2020 ones right now (apparently spending 9 months at home last year wasn't enough time to get to the 2019 one 🤪) and it's a nice project for weeknights after the girls go to bed.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I'm always SO glad to have them and my girls love looking through them.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I put together some tips for making it easy and doable on my blog today, if you're hoping to get one (or . . . a few more than one) done this year!