Tag: holidays
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Our Favorite Halloween Traditions!
Halloween is not the biggest holiday at our house (that would definitely be Christmas), but I do love celebrating holidays with kids and my kids love this time of year! We stick with “fun” for Halloween with a touch of creepy atmosphere rather than scary or gory. One thing I love to remember about traditions…
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My Kids Picked Their TOP FAVORITE Christmas Traditions
We have a lot of Christmas traditions that I love to do with my kids and as they get older, I know things will get crazier and we’ll probably need to adapt and maybe start changing some of our traditions (which means stopping some old ones as we start new ones). This year, I thought…
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What We are Actually Buying our Kids for Christmas This Year!
It’s that time of year when we are finalizing all our presents for everyone (I like to have it done earlier, but it just wasn’t going to happen this year, on top of the fact that my family wasn’t as on board with deciding what they want for Christmas super early). I love the process…
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Our Family’s Favorite Thanksgiving Traditions!
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I’m wondering where the time went! I love the holiday season, especially as a mother to young kids. Thanksgiving isn’t as busy as Halloween or Christmas for us, which is nice because it gives us a chance to catch our breath, but we do have some traditions that we…
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Our 2025 Christmas Countdown with Children’s Books!
I love Christmas and am so excited that it is coming up! One of my favorite things to do this time of year is plan our family’s annual countdown to Christmas. Each day between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I have our kids open a holiday-themed children’s book. We read it together and do an activity (I…
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Our Gratitude Tree
November is upon us and that just puts the holiday feeling in the air! I love the holidays and Christmas, but we also love to slow down in November and enjoy focusing on Thanksgiving and gratitude. One of my favorite traditions that we have in November is our gratitude tree. We started this tradition years…
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25+ Picture Books Perfect for Halloween!
When I get out our Halloween decorations, I also haul up our big pile of seasonal books to read throughout the month together. It’s both my favorite thing and my kids’ favorite thing! We love our “Halloween” books–some are actually about Halloween, some are a little creepy or about Halloween related things like monsters, and…
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Halloween Homeschool Activities 2025
One of my favorite parts of homeschooling is during the holidays when we can theme a lot of our school activities around the holiday! With a baby, I’m feeling a little behind, but I have started planning some Halloween homeschool activities to do with the kids this Halloween and I wanted to share them here!…
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2024 Christmas Advent with Picture Books!
One of my favorite traditions (that encompasses most of our other traditions) is our Book Advent. This is a tradition we have where the girls unwrap one Christmas picture book a day from after Thanksgiving to Christmas. We read the book and do an activity together (I do my best to match the book with…
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Our Christmas Presents 2023!
We are so blessed and Christmas is a time that I really feel it! Not only are we blessed to be able to do the things we want at Christmas, but we are also surrounded by friends and family who bless us with presents and their presence. To make sure I don’t go overboard at…
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