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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.

 

Things you'll need 2 of with Irish Twins - Wish I had this list during my second pregnancy! A total survival kit for what new moms need for their second baby!

11 Things You'll Need with Irish Twins- 2 Kids Under 1

Best Books for Preschoolers - an amazing list of books for kids and preschoolers. | kids activities | kids crafts | parenting | kids

Best Books for Preschoolers

Is a Gracious WIfe June Cleaver? A Pinterest-Perfect woman? What IS a Gracious Wife? | love | marriage |

What IS a Gracious Wife?

The best marriage advice for a happy marriage ever given to me for women and husbands: Marriage is NOT 50/50. |Christian marriage | marriage tips | From TheGraciousWife.com

Marriage is NOT 50/50

Best Books for Toddlers - an amazing list of books for kids and toddlers. | kids activities | kids crafts | parenting | kids

Best Books for Toddlers

30 Cheap and Fun Date Ideas for couples. Ideas for everyone, from the adventurous to the home-body, even when you're on a budget! |love | marriage | happy marriage

30 Cheap and Fun Date Ideas for Couples

How to handle life while parenting and raising Irish Twins, 2 children under 1. Tips for parenting 2 young children.  Advice is also great for 2 under 2! | parenting

Raising Irish Twins

Why I Love My Husband Most - why my husband and our marriage is my top priority (and should be yours too!) and comes before the kids. | happy marriage | love | marriage

I Love My Husband Most

What to do when your kids think the day starts waaay before you do. My number one sanity-saving parenting tip for starting my day off right with kids. | parenting | kids | organization

Why You Should Wake Up Before Your Kids

30 of the Best Christmas Books for Children List, from the classics to the new and everything in between. Books the whole family will enjoy reading. I'm going to use this list for the book advent we do each year!

30 Best Christmas Books for Kids

Celebrate Thanksgiving with your kids with these amazing Thanksgiving Books for Preschoolers, that talk about community, gratefulness, and the true meaning of Thanksgiving.| preschoolers | parenting | holidays

Top Thanksgiving Books for Preschoolers

Celebrate Thanksgiving with your kids with these amazing Thanksgiving Books for Toddlers, that talk about community, gratefulness, and the true meaning of Thanksgiving. | Thanksgiving | parenting | toddlers

Top Thanksgiving Books for Toddlers

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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

Pumpkin pudding in a small glass topped with whipped cream and gingersnap crumbs with another glass of pudding behind. They're surrounded by mini pumpkins and a linen napkins.

Pumpkin Pudding

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Butternut Squash Gratin

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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

More Fall Recipes & Ideas

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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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