Category: Seasonal Living
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Holy Week with Kids: How to Make the Most of It
Read More: Holy Week with Kids: How to Make the Most of ItGet the Holy Week Family Guide for free below! Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday, the week before Easter. It is essentially the days leading up to Jesus’ death and resurrection starting with his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Learning about Holy Week with your kids can be a meaningful time to prepare your hearts for…
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How to do Lent with Kids
Read More: How to do Lent with KidsWhat is Lent? Lent is a period of 40 days (plus 6 sabbaths) observed by many Christians as a time to reflect, repent and prepare our hearts for the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection on Easter. The 40 days imitates Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the wilderness. Throughout church history, spiritual disciplines of fasting, acts of…
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Why February is the Perfect Time to Teach Your Kids About God’s Love
Read More: Why February is the Perfect Time to Teach Your Kids About God’s LoveSometimes I can get stuck in a rut when it comes to family devotions. I really try to keep a regular rhythm of being in the Word with my kids, but when the schedule gets a little too full, or one of the kids is sick, or I experience push-back from multiple kiddos, the odds…
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The 2 Ingredient Salt-Dough Ornaments to Make This Christmas
Read More: The 2 Ingredient Salt-Dough Ornaments to Make This ChristmasEvery year at Christmas, I like to make or decorate ornaments with my kids. We’ve tried painting plaster ornaments, painting wooden ones, even making those candy cane ornaments out of beads and pipe cleaners. But the ones that I keep coming back to over again are salt dough ornaments. Salt dough ornaments are amazingly simple…
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The Best Outdoor Christmas Scavenger Hunt
Read More: The Best Outdoor Christmas Scavenger HuntSome of my favorite Christmas activities with the kids are the ones that require zero prep. Better yet, if it gets us outside the house and moving (boy-mom of 3 over here!) This outdoor Christmas Scavenger hunt does both! My kids get so excited seeing the Christmas decorations around our neighborhood, and I thought–why not…
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Making (and recording) Memories with a Kid’s New Year’s Interview
Read More: Making (and recording) Memories with a Kid’s New Year’s InterviewY’all probably know by now that I consider every holiday and change of season an opportunity to make memories with the kids. I also think that leaning into seasons and holidays creates opportunities for learning with the kids and easy activities for having fun together. Cue the newly updated kid’s New Year’s Interview from More…
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Why My Kids Love our Advent Card Tradition
Read More: Why My Kids Love our Advent Card TraditionChristmas has become my kids’ favorite holiday of the year. They love it so much in fact, that they convinced me to celebrate Christmas in July this past summer. Now, I get it, everyone loves Christmas–but for our family, one tradition in particular has made it a cause for celebration all month long—Advent Cards. And…
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Saint Patrick’s Day Celebrations to Make Memories with your Kids
Read More: Saint Patrick’s Day Celebrations to Make Memories with your KidsYou might be able to tell that I’m a big fan of seasons and holidays. I think it’s significant that God gave His people holidays and celebrations to remember important events and the ways that He loved and cared for them. In addition to the meaning and significance behind each holiday, I think they are…
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The what, why and how of practicing Lent (and why it’s good for your family)
Read More: The what, why and how of practicing Lent (and why it’s good for your family)Last year was the first time I had ever practiced Lent. Prior to that, I had heard of people giving things up for Lent, and I had always decided that it just wasn’t really for me. It didn’t seem necessary and I didn’t really understand it. But I was reading an article the other day…
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A New Year Kids’ Interview
Read More: A New Year Kids’ InterviewNew Year’s reflecting isn’t just for the grown-ups! Last year we began a tradition of answering questions via a new years interview with the kids in the early days of January. I wanted to document their likes and preferences, answers to fun questions and even the way they wrote their names so that one day…
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Holy Week with Kids: How to Make the Most of It
Get the Holy Week Family Guide for free below! Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday, the week before Easter. It is essentially the days leading up to Jesus’ death and resurrection starting with his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Learning about Holy Week with your kids can be a meaningful time to prepare your hearts for…
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How to do Lent with Kids
What is Lent? Lent is a period of 40 days (plus 6 sabbaths) observed by many Christians as a time to reflect, repent and prepare our hearts for the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection on Easter. The 40 days imitates Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the wilderness. Throughout church history, spiritual disciplines of fasting, acts of…
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Why February is the Perfect Time to Teach Your Kids About God’s Love
Sometimes I can get stuck in a rut when it comes to family devotions. I really try to keep a regular rhythm of being in the Word with my kids, but when the schedule gets a little too full, or one of the kids is sick, or I experience push-back from multiple kiddos, the odds…
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