The season of family road trips must be upon us because I’m getting LOTS of emails and messages asking for recommendations for the best audiobooks for family road trips. Fortunately, I’ve been preparing for this post for years without even knowing it. If you’re headed out on a long trip, want to keep your kids from going nuts while you’re…
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Ella is officially done with fifth grade and positively devastated that sixth grade is still elementary school for her. (Somehow, she’s convinced that middle school is going to be the most awesome experience of her life. I sincerely hope that it lives up to her expectations in another year). As usual, she’s been reading up a storm, including a lot…
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Do you feel like you’re a good decision maker? The older I get, the more I feel like being decisive is a true blessing – you can spend so much of your life waffling over every decision big or small and it can get in the way of being able to make progress. Plus, I think for most people, that…
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Two years ago, one of my summer goals was to make a video of all our summer adventures. With little kids, we weren’t doing crazy things – a lot of library trips, some visits to the pool, easy hikes, and playing in the backyard – but I wanted to remember those sunny days and happy memories. So I made an…
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At the end of 2020, when we were working on our goals and plans for this year, one of the things Bart suggested was doing a weekly family outing on a week night. We did a whopping total of one between January and April. And then, in May, Bart suggested that instead of feeling pressure to reinvent the wheel every…
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