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34 Vacation Safety Tips for Kids - Safety is important, even on vacation.  Use these 34 tips for keeping your kids safe on vacation, including tips for before you leave, on the way, at your hotel, in a crowd, and medicine and vitamin storage and safety.  These tips will help you have a fun and safe vacation with the family. 

33 Tips for Keeping Your Kids Safe on Vacation

6 Tips for Teaching Manners to Your Sons - Being polite, thoughtful, and kind is an important part of making friends and life in general. Use these 6 Tips for Teaching Manners to Your Sons to help turn your sons into respectful and respectable men. Parenting tips

6 Tips for Teaching Manners to Your Sons

7 Tips for Hosting a Rocking Family Game Night - Spend some quality time with your family having fun, playing games, and being silly with these 7 tips for hosting a rocking family game night.  Parenting tips

7 Tips for Hosting a Rocking Family Game Night

6 Reasons to Teach Your Sons about Housework - Housework is an important skill for everyone to learn, including boys.  Put your boys to work and check out these 6 reasons to teach your sons about housework. Parenting Tips

6 Reasons You Need to Teach Your Sons About Housework

23 Best Games for Family Game Night - Make your family game night the best ever with these 23 Best Games for Family Game Night. The whole family will these fun games, and a chance to spend time together! Parenting Tips

23 Best Games for Family Game Night

14 Dirt and Mud Activities - There are so many health benefits to kids going outside and playing in the mud, and there's no need to worry when you can clean up gently after with Ivory Soap.  Encourage your kids to have fun and get muddy with these 14 mud activities for kids, then wash up with the best soap!

14 Dirt and Mud Activities for Kids (And the Best Bath Soap to Wash Up!)

7 Reasons to Take Your Family Fishing - Whether you love fishing or not, it can be a great activity for your family to get outside, bond, and have some fun this year. Here are 7 Reasons to Take Your Family Fishing even if you don't like the worms! Parenting Tips

7 Reasons to Take Your Family Fishing

10 Ball Park Hacks for Busy Families - Baseball season can make busy schedules a little crazier.  Use these 10 Ball Park Hacks for busy families to make it a little easier and less stressful for everyone! Parenting Tips

10 Ball Park Hacks for Busy Families

6 Ways to Reduce Your Family's Food Waste - Save money and resources by wasting less food.  Stop wasting and start being resourceful now with these 6 easy ways to reduce your family's food waste!  Frugal living - budget

6 Ways to Reduce Your Family's Food Waste

50 Tips for Traveling with Children for a fun and relaxing family vacation - Have more fun and make traveling with kids a breeze with these 50 easy but brilliant tips for traveling with children. Have your best vacation yet!

50 Tips for Traveling with Children

25 Staycation Ideas - Take a much needed relaxing and fun break on a budget.  These 25 family friendly Staycation Ideas will help you plan a break from life that doesn’t break the bank.

25 Staycation Ideas

Marriage Tips Every Husband Needs to Hear - Marriage can be hard.  But with love, respect, and hard work, you can have a wonderful, happy marriage. Get started with these 7 Marriage Tips Every Husband Needs to Hear.

7 Marriage Tips Every Husband Needs to Hear

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Happy Halloween!

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

Sparkle Pumpkin Cupcakes Tutorial - Make these fun, easy, and festive Sparkle Pumpkin Cupcakes in just 4 simple steps for adorable Fall and Halloween treats! What a great idea for Halloween food. My kiddos will love these! Make them as Pumpkin spice too!

Sparkle Pumpkin Cupcakes

More Halloween Recipes & Ideas

Falling for Fall

Overhead view of a stack of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with a bite taken out of the top one.

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

Overhead view of butternut squash gratin on a small glass plate topped with a fresh sage leaf.

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

Hasselback sweet potato on a baking sheet topped with flaky sea salt with more sweet potatoes behind.

Hasselback Sweet Potatoes

More Fall Recipes & Ideas

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Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes

A glass mug of green mint white hot chocolate topped with whipped cream and crushed green mint candy pieces on a white marble surface surrounded by more star mint candies.

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

Slice of crockpot breakfast casserole on a white plate with stainless steel crock pot in the background.

Crockpot Breakfast Casserole

A corner slice of chicken pot pie with golden crust on a small plate with a fork with a bite on it, on a rustic wood background with a striped linen

The BEST Chicken Pot Pie

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