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The best tips for how to host a healthy, fun Thanksgiving dinner for your family including menu and recipes whether it's your first time or you're a seasoned pro.

How to Host Thanksgiving The Easy Way – 11 More Tips

How to Celebrate Advent with a Jesse Tree

23 Time-saving hacks to make hosting thanksgiving easy - Whether you're entertaining for the first time or tenth, you will find lots of good advice and practical tips in this article including ideas for dinner menu items, shopping list, and make ahead preparation. Tips and a checklist for a simple family celebration with kids. Great for a crowd of friends including products you need, recipes to make, and a special method for roasting the turkey.

23 Simple, Time-Saving Hacks to Make Hosting Thanksgiving Easy

Crafty DIY sentimental and thoughtful Mother's Day gift ideas from daughter or adults or teens or tweens or kids for mom or grandma - Many unique and traditional ideas for homemade and handmade and often cheap, inexpensive, and frugal things to make. Includes jewelry and mason jar gifts. Cute, creative, simple, and easy. Many with pictures, photos, and flowers.

40+ Easy Handmade DIY Mother’s Day Gifts

Free printable Christ-Centered Easter basket scavenger hunt for Easter morning - A treasure hunt is a great way to find your Easter basket. This hunt for kids, tweens, or teens uses the main points of the Easter story of Jesus as clues. Awesome Christian fun in riddles. Great for families at home. Religious and Bible-based. Easy clues using both indoor and outdoor spots.

Free Printable Christ-Centered Easter Basket Scavenger Hunt

Cute Popsicle Stick Easter Bunny Craft

St. Patrick's Day Traditions for Kids and Families - These 18+ simple and easy ideas will help you have a fun St Patricks Day with any kids, from toddlers and preschoolers up to elementary, tweens, even teens! Includes ideas for activities, crafts, and green foods.

18 Fun St. Patrick’s Day Traditions to Start with Your Kids

Best books about St. Patrick's Day to read to your kids - Books for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade. St. Patty's Day is fun and exciting when you learn about leprechauns and their pots of gold, green clovers and shamrocks, rainbows, and Ireland. Lots of fun books for children!

37 Best St. Patrick’s Day Books to Read to Your Kids

17 awesome St. Patrick's Day minute to win it games for kids and families - These simple, fun games can be used at home or in a classroom party and will inspire lots of laughs! Some easy ideas are for couples, teams, and some alone. The challenges use food, candy, and Dollar Store materials. Great family activities.

17 St. Patrick’s Day Minute to Win It Games for Kids and Families

Rainbow Paper Chain Pot of Gold St. Patrick’s Day Craft for Kids

Easy DIY heart suncatchers using washi tape - These sun catchers are great for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten, or even older kids, teens, and adults because they are so simple to make. Great craft for Valentines Day because of the heart shapes but could easily be made into any shape for any holiday. Awesome ideas for home or for school. Fun rainbow heart projects!

Washi Tape Heart Suncatchers – Easy 10 Minute Craft for Kids

Should your family observe Lent? What is it exactly? Whether you're Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, or another Christian denomination, you can still observe Lent as a family. These ideas, activities, and meals are great for kids and adults, and they include advice on what to give up and what to add in during this special season.

Should Your Family Observe Lent This Year? (And What Is It Anyway?)

Free printable Valentines Coupon Book for Kids - Children will love when mom prints these adorable coupons for them! Cute ideas to show them how much you love them. Make great gifts for a DIY Valentines Day.

Free Printable Valentines Coupon Book for Kids

These simple and easy Valentines Day gifts for her are perfect for a girlfriend or wife. Women love these interesting and unique gifts! Covers everything from creative to funny, sexy and naughty.

40+ Best Valentines Gift Ideas for Your Wife

These simple and easy Valentines Day gifts for him are perfect for a boyfriend or husband. Men love these interesting and unique gifts! Covers everything from creative to funny, sexy and naughty.

27+ Best Valentines Gift Ideas for Your Handsome Husband

17 Ways to bring Christmas joy to a grieving friend - Grieving is hard all the time but it is especially difficult during the holidays. Families and friends may want to help in love, but not know how. Here are tips and ideas for gifts and gestures to help a grieving heart to heal.

17 Ways to Bring Christmas Joy to a Grieving Friend

23 Ways to reclaim Christmas joy when your heart is grieving - Grief during the holidays can be devastating, especially when your mom or dad has passed away.

23 Ways to Reclaim Christmas Joy When You’re Grieving

Felt Cat Ornament – DIY Christmas Ornaments for Kids (Free Printable Pattern)

Cute Bird Ornament – DIY Christmas Craft for Kids

101 Best Unique Christmas Gift Ideas for Girls Ages 6-8

51 Awesome & unique Christmas gift ideas for tween girls - These fun ideas are sure to please the tweens in your life! Whether they're 9, 10, 11, or 12 years old, there is something on this list for them for the holidays or even for birthdays!

58 Awesome & Unique Christmas Gift Ideas for Tween Girls

51 awesome Christian Christmas gifts for kids - Wondering what to get your kids for the holidays? This post is full of tips and ideas for buying Xmas gifts that bring children back to Jesus without lame presents.

51 Awesome Christian Christmas Gift Ideas for Kids

Hosting a Simple Thanksgiving Dinner Tips - Whether it's your first time hosting or your tenth, this ebook is full of great tips for the menu (full of delectable, easy food like turkey and crockpot mashed potatoes), decorating, and more. Includes a checklist and shopping list printables.

How to Host Thanksgiving Dinner Whether It’s Your First Time or Tenth

This Easter basket scavenger hunt includes free printable clues for kids or teens. Lots of ideas for families to stick in plastic eggs and hide for their children on Easter morning. Gifts and candy can be hidden along the way or saved for the Easter basket at the end!

Free Printable Easter Scavenger Hunt

A Letter to My Baby on Her Sixth Birthday

12 Tips for Celebrating New Year’s Eve with Kids

December Birthday Ideas – Do’s and Don’ts of Celebrating a Birthday During Christmas

101 Best Christmas Books for Kids

12 Things to See at Hersheypark Christmas Candyland

What to Do in Hershey Pennsylvania at Christmas

9 Ways to Celebrate Easter as a Family

123 Easter Basket Ideas

16 Simple Lent Activities for All Christian Kids

Valentine’s Day Heart Animal Crafts for Kids

10 Ways to Keep Christ in Christmas

10 Ways to Count Down to Christmas

How to Handle Hurt During the Holidays

Making the Most of Easter at the Last Minute

How to Host A Christian Passover Seder Meal with Preschoolers

How to Celebrate a Christian Passover Meal for Preschoolers

Lamb of God - Sheep craft for preschoolers and older kids

Lamb of God – Sheep Craft for Preschoolers and Older Kids

10 Ways to Have a Perfect Valentine’s Day with Your Kids

Ideas for a Frozen Valentine’s Day Party

How to Make a Painted Doily Garland

Handmade Valentine’s Day Ideas, Gifts, and Activities

Kids Noisemaker Craft for New Year’s Eve

How to Celebrate New Year’s Eve with Your Kids

Things to do on Christmas Eve

8 Christmas Eve Traditions to Start This Year

Washi Tape Christmas Tree Craft for Kids

10 Ways to Keep Christ in Christmas

6 Ways to Celebrate Advent with Kids

How to Make Easy Marzipan Snowmen

your best thanksgiving ever!

How to Make Thanksgiving Dinner – Easier

10 Ways to Make Your Child Feel Special on Her Birthday

How to Celebrate July 4th with Kids

15 Ways to Celebrate Independence Day with Kids

How to Celebrate Memorial Day with Kids

Tips for Making Easter Dinner Easier

10 Tips for Making Easter Dinner Easier

How to do Cross Resist Paintings for Easter or any time of year

Cross Resist Paintings for Preschoolers and Big Kids

A Sense of the Resurrection teaches children about Jesus' death through real life sensory experiences.

Bring the Easter Story to Life with A Sense of the Resurrection

How to Make Marizpan Piggies for Good Luck

Finished suncatchers - Easy Valentine Suncatcher Crafts for Kids

Valentine Suncatchers – Easy Tissue Paper Crafts for Kids

Invitation to Craft – Making Valentines

Fortune Cookie Valentines with 4 pages of printable Valentine fortunes

Fortune Cookie Valentines – Free Printable Valentine Fortunes

My Second Child’s Third Birthday Party

Christmas Gift Ideas for Girly Girls

Christmas Gift Suggestions for the Girly Girl

This Can Be Your Best Thanksgiving Ever!

Allie in a Homemade Witch’s Hat

How to Make an Easy $2 Witch's Hat

How to Make an Easy $2 Witch’s Hat

Jesus, The Easter Bunny, and the Last Minute

Jesus, the Easter Bunny, and the Last Minute

Rainbow Button Easter Egg Craft

Rainbow Button Craft – An Easter Egg Craft

Frugal Easter Egg Sensory Bin

Easter Eggs Sensory Bin

Bring the Holidays Down a Notch

Living Fully – Why I’m Not Bringing Our Holidays Down a Notch

Preserving Lucky’s Magic

St. Patrick's Day sensory bin

St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin

Magic Milk for St. Patrick’s Day

Chinese New Year Activities for Kids

24 Chinese New Year Activities for Kids

how to make snowman pancakes

Snowman Pancakes

Happy New Year! {a video from Gracie}

Merry Christmas!

A Tour of Our Substantial Christmas Tree

Christmas Ornaments for Preschoolers

Making Styrofoam-filled Christmas Ornaments with a Preschooler

Christmas Ornaments Preschoolers Can Make

Sequined Snowflake Ornaments that Preschoolers Can Make

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Substance Over Style – Our New Old Christmas Tree

40+ gift suggestions for toddlers

40+ Christmas Gift Ideas for Toddlers

How to Celebrate Advent with a Jesse Tree

Jesse Tree FAQ

gift suggestions for girls

40+ Christmas Gift Ideas for Girls

What I’m Thankful For

Photos With Santa

Trick or Treating with Barbie #BarbiePhotoFashion

celebrate advent

Celebrate Advent with Truth in the Tinsel

Operation Christmas Child Shoebox

What to Pack in an Operation Christmas Child Shoebox #OCCGiving

Glad One Bag Challenge

Grace’s Birthday Party Part Two (featuring Glad’s One Bag Challenge & a giveaway)

Build-A-Bear Workshop Birthday Party

Grace’s Build-A-Bear Workshop Birthday Party

teddy bear cake

Grace’s Bear Cake (or Don’t Be Afraid to Try a Shaped Cake Pan)

what to put in easter eggs

106 Things to Put in Easter Eggs

valentine's day card

Coloring a Valentine

Happy Valentine’s Day!

printable valentine card

Have a Homemade Valentine’s Day

printable valentines

A Printable Valentine Card

Valentine Printables for Preschoolers

Santa Brought Drums

Merry Christmas!

Is Santa real?

Is Santa Real?

Magic Elf Ideas

The Magic Elf Becomes the Magic Gingerbread Girl

laughing baby

Ignoring the Fracas

counting down to christmas

8 Ways to Count Down to Christmas

Coloring the Advent

jesse tree

How to Make and Use an Advent Wreath for Kids

jesse tree ornament

Learning the Christmas Story – Jesse Tree & Truth in the Tinsel

Our Christmas Traditions

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

jesse tree

My New FREE eBook – How to Celebrate Advent with a Jesse Tree

your best thanksgiving ever!

Your Best Thanksgiving Ever!

how to throw a barbie party

How to Throw a Barbie Princess Charm School Party

Happy Birthday, Grace!

How to throw an indoor living room carnival for your family - Kids love carnivals, and these simple activities and fun games make it easy to have one for your family. Perfect for rainy days. Includes pictures and decorations. Awesome way to spend a day inside.

How to Host an Indoor Carnival for Your Family

St. Patrick's Day Activities for Preschoolers

10 St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Preschoolers

rainbow scavenger hunt for preschoolers

A Rainbow Scavenger Hunt

Homemade Valentine’s Day – Valentine Games and Other Printables

Homemade Valentine's Day - Printable Valentine Cards

Homemade Valentine’s Day – 10 Valentine Cards to Print

homemade-valentines-day-printable

Homemade Valentine’s Day – 6 Printable Valentine Gifts

Homemade Valentine’s Day – Gifts a Preschooler Can Make for Other Kids

Food safety tips for the Super Bowl - Rules, tips, and ideas for keeping hot foods hot and cold foods cold. Don't get food poisoning at your party!

Food Safety Tips for your Super Bowl Party

homemade valentines day gifts for kids to make

Homemade Valentine’s Day – Gifts Kids Can Make for Adults

love bookmarks

Homemade Valentine’s Day – Other Crafty Gifts

Valentine Countdown

Homemade Valentine’s Day – Gifts for Children

Valentine wreath

Homemade Valentine’s Day – Gifts for the Home

red velvet whoopie pies

Homemade Valentine’s Day – Gifts of Food

Reindeer Food

Our New Baby’s Christmas Stocking

6 inexpensive ideas for holiday entertaining - These 6 tips and ideas are great! Including fun things to do on a budget with kids or the whole family, these will keep you under budget - maybe even with money left over!

6 Inexpensive Ideas for Entertaining this Holiday Season

Button-Covered Christmas Ornament to Make with a Preschooler

coloring the advent

Coloring the Advent

pom pom cupcake

Ornaments that Preschoolers Can Make – Pom Pom Cupcakes

pom pom ornaments

Another Pom Pom Ornament to Make with a Preschooler

painted ornaments

Making Ornaments with a Preschooler – A Painting Success

advent books

10 Ways to Celebrate the Advent

angel tree topper craft

Making An Angel Tree Topper with a Preschooler

pom pom christmas ornament

Making Jingly Pom Pom Christmas Ornaments with a Preschooler

dyed-pasta-garland

Making a Colored Pasta Garland with a Preschooler

painting with a preschooler

Making Ornaments with a Preschooler – The Painting Mishap

preschool craft candy canes

Candy Cane Craft for Preschoolers

Our Traditional Thanksgiving Menu – on Bed Rest

Our Favorite Christmas Books and DVDs

Christmas Gift Ideas for Preschool Girls

counting down to christmas

Our Christmas Countdown Chain

spatchcocked turkey

Our Spatchcocked Turkey

preschool crafts christmas

27 Ornaments to Make With a Preschooler

Teaching Children to Give featuring The King’s Christmas List

Operation Christmas Child

Our Family Is Thankful For

Thinking About Thanksgiving

Our Family

Halloween Traditions

Woof, woof! (means Happy Halloween)

Top Ten Crafty Father’s Day Gifts

finished princess crown

How to Make a Foam Crown for Your Prince or Princess

Simple & easy DIY Disney princess birthday party for preschoolers - My 3-year-old loved this party. Complete with ideas for favors and goodie bags, activities, food, crafts, and games. Because the party was outside, we had only basic decorations. Easy to do on a budget or with toddlers. Served cupcakes instead of a big cake and kids decorated them at the party.

How to Throw a Simple Princess Birthday Party for a Preschooler

how to make a princess castle cake

How to Make an Amazing Princess Castle Cake

Wilton’s Romantic Castle Cake Set

One Big Egg

I Made You A Surprise!

Homemade Mother’s Day Gift – Colored Tote

Cousins

how to make resurrection eggs

How to Make Resurrection Eggs (and Why I Didn’t Make Any This Year)

It’s What I Just Want, Daddy

heart shaped pizza

How to Make an Easy Heart-Shaped Pizza

Turn Your Valentine Cards Into Refrigerator Magnets

Heart-Shaped Banana Pancakes with Chocolate Chips and Peanut Butter

How to Make a Heart-Shaped Omelet for Your Valentine

A Valentine for the Grandparents

Grace’s Valentine for Daddy

H is for…

Valentine’s Day Love Notes for Kids

Happy Epiphany!

Merry Christmas!

The Magic of Christmas

2 Simple Christmas Tree Crafts

The Magic of Christmas

How to Make a Snowman Cake

What Are We Eating for Christmas?

Decorating for Christmas

Decorating for Christmas

How to Celebrate Advent with a Jesse Tree

How to Make a Jesse Tree

Advent Wreath – Start A New Christmas Tradition

Christmas Gift Ideas for Preschoolers

Setting the Table with Photos

Thanksgiving Crafts

Simplifying Christmas

Plan Ahead to Simplify Thanksgiving Day

Easy Thanksgiving Menu

Too Scared to Trick or Treat

Dressing Up for Halloween

The Best Easter Morning Ever

Our Easter Menu, revised

My Menu for Easter Dinner

Veggie Tales: An Easter Carol

The Epiphany

My most unusual Christmas dinner

My strange Christmas

Our New Nativity Set

We’re starting to decorate for Christmas

Trimming the tree

The ghost of Thanksgiving past

Grandma D’s Wreath & Tree Farm

Decorating with Evergreen Wreaths

Symbolism of the Christmas Wreath

A Little Turkey

My Thanksgiving Menu

Easy Thanksgiving Recipes – Mashed Potatoes & Candied Sweet Potatoes

My Christmas list

Start a new tradition – have an Elfscapade!

Easy Thanksgiving Recipes – Cherry Pie & Green Bean Casserole

Happy Halloween, Dear Readers!

Happy BOO to you!

Happy Halloween, Dear Gracie

Happy Easter!

Happy Valentine’s Day!