The Gold Medal Mess by David A. Kelly Just in time for the Olympics, here’s a great book series for your kids! From the author of the Ballpark Mysteries, David A. Kelly, comes another series, MVP Most Valuable Players. With the winning combination of sports and mysteries, Kelly has brought us another fun series for your 2-5th grade kids! An…
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Top 10 Reasons We Love Family Vacations! Are you a fan of an inter-generational, multi-family vacation? Before I got married, these were not a part of my life. Now…I am grateful for my family-in-law! Every other year my mom-in-law rallies the troops and we all head to the Outer Banks for a week of family togetherness, food and fun! I…
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Have you ever visited a bookstore or library while on vacation? Being the book nerds that we are, we tend to visit bookstores and libraries anywhere that we are! It’s always fun to see all the different ways of showing off books, and what different stores highlight. While on vacation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina we visited a few bookstores. …
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Teaching Kids to Budget I’ve noticed that teaching kids how to budget money is a curious challenge. Mainly because they have to have money in order to budget it! Last year I decided to try an experiment with my daughter regarding budgeting and money. I set up a bank account with money in it for her to use for clothing for the year. And the…
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Do you talk about money with your kids? My parents were awesome parents! And, they taught us a lot of really important life lessons – but, I didn’t learn my financial lessons from them! I decided I wanted my kids to be smart money people before they left home for college, so hopefully their financial lessons are a little easier…
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When you go on vacation, how many bags or suitcases do you typically take? Do you think you could travel light? Could you carry only one backpack?? Believe it or not, backpack travel is traveling easier! And, if you travel light you travel easier! A couple of years ago my family and I were readying for our first trip together to…
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Are you looking for some summer reading ideas for your kids? How about a Kids Book Club?? You, or at least someone you know, are probably in a book club. The popularity of book clubs in America (and maybe around the world?) is pretty amazing. It would be interesting to know why people join book clubs. Is it for the…
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Book Review The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho What I Liked This is a beautiful book! Paulo Coelho’s writing style is smooth and gentle and very quotable. I found myself wishing that I hadn’t borrowed the book from the library, but rather that I had bought it so I could underline passages. Of all the books set in Spain that I’ve…
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Over the past several years, our family has traveled quite a bit. And, it’s been an intentional decision! Not just, hey let’s go on vacation, but wow, we’ve only got our kids for a few more years – let’s make them count! Hence the idea of intentional travel! For me, it hit me when my daughter was going into…
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One of my favorite ways I used to get my kids reading was to find a great book and read together. It’s been a couple of years since we’ve done this since my kids are “too old.” Both of my kids are plowing through books on their own and don’t have time to sit and let mom read with them 🙂…
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