Skip-Bo is a fun card game the whole family can enjoy. The rules are fairly simple, and you can learn them quickly. And it’s an easy enough game that almost anyone who is able to recognize and sequence their numbers can play.
We’ve played with anywhere from 2 to 6 people, and had fun with each different grouping. If you added a second deck of cards, you could easily have more people join in the game.… Continue reading
It’s no secret that I use a lot of essential oils in my house. (You can read more about that HERE.) I use them for making my own homemade cleaners (see my recipes for Homemade All-Purpose Cleaner and Homemade Scouring Powder) and my own beauty products. (See my recipes for Healing Skin Salve, Amazing Face Serum, All-Natural Homemade Deodorant, Homemade Bath Salts, and Fizzy Bath Bombs.)… Continue reading
My boys love books with which they can sing along. Over the years we’ve collected a large number of such books. These are books where someone has taken a song – generally a well-known song, illustrated it, and published it as a book. The result is the fun of singing, all of the words right there on the page (in case you don’t know them all), and beautiful illustrations to go along with them.… Continue reading
Our family loves to play games together. And as my 5-year-old’s strategy skills build, we’re able to play more and more complex games as a family. Our family’s current favorite board game is Parcheesi.
In this game, your goal is to move four pawns from your start position into your home. On the way, you can capture your opponents pawns for a significant bonus, or you might be captured and back sent back to the start yourself.… Continue reading
We can make any act beautiful if we set about doing it with love. We can make any endeavor into a meditation if we set about performing it with mindfulness. In this way, we can be conscious of the actual moment in which we are living.
Focused on the now in which we exist, we come face-to-face with the one bit of life in which we can participate at any given time. … Continue reading
We had a bowl of leftover cauliflower “mashed potatoes” in the refrigerator. Remembering back to what my family did with leftover mashed potatoes when I was growing up, I was struck by the thought of making nightshade-free “potato” pancakes. So I started experimenting.
After a few iterations, I came up with the following recipe. While my boys were disappointed that they didn’t taste like the grain-free banana pancakes they’ve had in the past (they focused on the word pancake, and forgot about the word cauliflower), they acknowledged that they were pretty good for a way to eat vegetables.… Continue reading
We recently returned from a two-week trip to visit family. My husband was on the road for the two weeks before we left, and returned with only one day at home between his business trip and the departure for our family trip. All that to say, the planning and packing largely fell on my shoulders.
While I spent some time the week before we departed preparing myself for the trip, I didn’t worry about packing. … Continue reading
To find happiness and joy in our days doesn’t require something big or exciting. We simply need to look for the beauty in the thousands of moments that generally just pass us by.
It is the small things: the feel of your child’s hand in yours, the aroma from your favorite cup of hot tea, the exquisite creamy texture of a bite of good ice cream, the feel of your barefoot feet in the soft grass, the soft warmth of your favorite blanket.… Continue reading
This week we were reminded of the preciousness and fragility of life. Yesterday is already gone, and none of us has a guarantee of tomorrow. Today is the day to live, love, and do.
May we all value our todays. May we all live, love, and do with passion.
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done.… Continue reading
Isn’t it nice to know that each day we can start over again? Every night we go to sleep, and the next day we have a chance to begin anew. Lovely.
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
From Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery… Continue reading