Happy Memorial Day!




If you’d like to see what I came up with to say “thank you” to some service men and women (navy) last year at Girls’ Camp, look at this post:




If you’d like to see what I came up with to say “thank you” to some service men and women (navy) last year at Girls’ Camp, look at this post:
It’s not too late to throw together some fun for the historic inauguration festivities. Take advantage of this free download from Kira @ Tangarang (that’s my daughter’s name, too. Kira, I mean–not Tangarang).And how fun is this?So, I don’t drink at all, but I’m sure we could come up with some sort of fun non-alcoholic…
Have you finalized your 4th of July plans, yet? How about taking a picnic to the park to watch your community fireworks display? I’m not quite sure why my community decided to have our 4th of July celebration a couple of weeks early, but they did, and this is what we did to enjoy the…
I know. I’ve been sewing again! What is the world coming to? We have a family reunion over the 4th of July weekend. Each branch of the family is assigned a specific color and our family is blue. We deliberated about whether to go family or patriotic, and decided to do both. The H is…
You know I don’t talk about politics on this blog–there are enough other places to debate about such things–but I think we all can agree that a presidential election is an important historic event, and a great chance to teach our children about our government and how voting works. The last presidential election our family…
I hope you are having a wonderful day celebrating our nation’s independence! (Unless you live somewhere else, in which case, you can disregard this post). I had visions of lots of patriotic insanity this year, but this holiday also coincided with the beginning of our family reunion/vacation insanity, so buy fireworks online for the occasion…
Happy Veteran’s Day! Today I’m sharing some ideas about how to say thank you to those who sacrifice the most for us. A couple of summers ago, I was asked to come up with a service project for the young women in our church to participate in at their summer girls camp. Our…