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Family Activities and Ideas

Get ready for family fun! Here you'll find ideas about kids and parenting, love and marriage, and tips to keep the whole family safe, happy, and healthy!

Have fun with your family with 13 fun family activities for summer.

Start some new family traditions, too. Read these 7 Reasons to Take Your Family Fishing for some whole family outdoor fun, or read these 7 Tips for Hosting a Rocking Family Game Night to bring the family fun indoors!

Family can be chaotic! Keep your family organized with helpful tips such as these 10 Ball Park Hacks for Busy families or these 50 tips for traveling with children.

 

10 Tasks Kids can Help with in the Kitchen - Kids can help in the kitchen too! Get the kids involved, busy, and cooking with these 10 tasks kids can help with in the kitchen. | parenting

10 Tasks Kids Can Help with In the Kitchen

Teaching kids about money when they're young will have a huge effect on their money management later in life. Start them off on the right foot with these 7 Tips for Teaching a Preschooler about Money. | parenting | kids | preschoolers

10 Tips for Teaching a Preschooler about Money

25 Fun Indoor Winter Activities for Kids to beat winter boredom and cabin fever. Kids can get a little stir crazy when they're stuck indoors for the winter. Keep your kids happy and occupied with these Fun Indoor Winter Activities for Kids that the whole family will love. Great ideas!

Fun Indoor Winter Activities for Kids

6 Small Ways to Bond With Your Child in a Big Way. Show your child you love, care, and appreciate them with these 6 simple ideas. | parenting

6 Small Ways to Bond with Your Child in a Big Way

DIY Toy storage idea and DIY Toy Organization idea for the playroom. Organize all of your boys' Matchbox with this DIY Matchbox Car Storage for the wall.  It's super easy and the kids will love it! (and you'll love it too,  when there is no longer a Matchbox car explosion all over your playroom.

DIY Matchbox Car Storage Tutorial

How You're Letting Your Kids Control You - What you're doing to show your kids that they have control over you and how to stop. | parenting tips | parenting advice

How You're Letting Your Kids Control You

15 Baby Items You Don't Actually Need - Baby stuff you probably won't use or need for a baby boy or a baby girl! I wish I had this list during my first pregnancy. It would have saved me lots of money!

15 Baby Items You Don't Actually Need

Keep your toddler busy while you care for your new baby! If you're on your second pregnancy, with a baby boy or a baby girl, and you already have a toddler at home, these Nursing Baskets will seriously save your sanity.

Nursing Basket

How My Sons Helped Me Understand My Husband- After growing up in a house full of girls, my two sons taught me all about boys and men. | love | marriage | parenting | kids

How My Sons Helped Me Appreciate My Husband

How to Make Your Husband a Priority - great advice for a happy marriage! | love | marriage |

How to Make Your Husband a Priority

10 Mom and Son Date Night Ideas - spend some time with your boys with these fun activities, snacks, and crafts. | parenting | boys | kids activities

10 Mom and Son Date Night Ideas

10 Best Marriage Books - Love these! These books have great marriage advice for solving problems and keeping a happy marriage! Awesome for marriage advice, marriage tips, marriage problems, marriage humor, Christian marriage, and MORE From TheGraciousWife.com

10 Best Marriage Books

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Happy Halloween!

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Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

DIY Spider Costume for Kids - Make this easy, fun, and creepy DIY Spider Costume for Kids for a creepy crawly frugal do it yourself Halloween costume! So cool. Made from just a few black shirts!

DIY Spider Costume

Skeleton Cupcakes - Spooky but fun Skeleton Cupcakes with chocolate skeletons on top of your favorite cupcakes are a perfect easy Halloween treat for kids! These are so cute and easy! My kids will love them!

Skeleton Cupcakes

Black Cat Cupcakes Tutorial - Black Cat Cupcakes make a fun and easy non-spooky Halloween treat for kids! They're easy enough that anyone can make them! Fun project for kids to help with! Fun, quick and easy Halloween treats for kids! 

Black Cat Cupcakes

Jumbo Spiderweb Cookies Recipe for Halloween - Jumbo Spiderweb Cookies are a fun, quick, and easy Halloween treat for kids.  They're big enough to share and made with the all-time BEST chocolate chip cookies recipe. How fun! My kids will love these! Definitely making for their Halloween party treat!

Jumbo Spiderweb Cookies

9 Uses for Mini Pumpkins - Pumpkins are everybody's favorite! They just scream Fall! Check out these 9 Uses for Mini Pumpkins to squeeze even more pumpkin into your life while the season lasts! Love decorating for Fall and mini pumpkins are so fun! Love these ideas

9 Uses for Mini Pumpkins

More Halloween Recipes & Ideas

Falling for Fall

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Butterscotch Pie

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Pumpkin Pudding

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Butternut Squash Gratin

Pecan cheesecake pie on a small white plate with a layer of pie crust, pecan filling, cheesecake, and crunchy pecans.

Pecan Cheesecake Pie

Pumpkin sheet cake topped with chopped pecans and a creme pumpkin. The cake has a bite taken out sitting on a fork on a small plate.

Pumpkin Sheet Cake

A piece of turtle poke cake topped with pecans and caramel sauce on a small plate.

Turtle Poke Cake

A southern sweet potato pie in a glass pie dish topped with swirls of whipped cream, all on a rustic wood background with a linen napkin behind.

Southern Sweet Potato Pie with Crumble Topping

A slice of no bake pumpkin cheesecake topped with a caramel drizzle on a small white plate on a rustic wood background.

No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake

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Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes

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Mint White Hot Chocolate

A slice of no bake s'mores cheesecake topped with mini marshmallows and graham cracker crumbs on a small plate.

No Bake S'mores Cheesecake

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Crockpot Breakfast Casserole

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The BEST Chicken Pot Pie

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