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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How We’re Teaching Our Kids to Budget
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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Smart Money People ~ Teaching my Kids 5 Money Lessons
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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Backpack Travel ~ Travel Light and Easy with a Backpack!
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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Get Your Kids Reading This Summer – Pt. 5 Start a Book Club
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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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho – Book Review
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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Travel Intentionally ~ 5 surprising reasons you’ll want to try it!
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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5 Fantastic Reasons You’ll Want to Read Together
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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The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – Book Review
The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg I read The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler for the first time when I was in college taking a Children’s Literature class. I enjoyed the story line then and enjoyed it now. But I have to say that re-reading it as an adult and parent my…
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How to Live Intentionally and Choose Your Own Adventure
I have been thinking lately about the notion of living intentionally. How do we live intentionally? And, why?? I remember my daughter asking me several years ago if we were poor. I answered her no, why? Her answer was, “if we are not poor why don’t we have…”. I thought about it for a minute, because I felt like the answer was important. So I told…
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