Planning for Summer Vacation

We aren't quite out of school yet, but it is getting close!  Some of our friends in other districts are already on their last day.

Never fear, Pinterest is here!  I've started a summer fun board (probably should have started this way sooner than I did!) and found this:

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I don't know about you, but we are not doing #55!  We'll attempt many of the others though!

Being that we're a bit of a nerd family, I liked this display for a summer bucket list:

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We've got VBS, soccer camp, golf camp, and the library reading program too!

What are your summer plans?  If you have a bucket list going, share the link in the comments!  We can all use more ideas.

To follow my Summer Fun board, click here.

Have you ever been a little under the weather and rushed to WebMD to figure out what was wrong...only to walk away convinced you have some crazy rare disease and 14.9 minutes left to live?

Yeah.

So this popped up on pinterest this week and I laughed my head off.



Happy Friday!

Friday Funnies

Happy Friday!!

Maxine always has a...uh..."positive" outlook on things.


They say careers in the health care field are secure:


And lastly, this gave me a big laugh:



-images from my pinterest board

Hurry! Armadillo Dreams' giveaway ends today!

I just love this toy maker!  The wooden toys are hand crafted right here in the United States.  My little guy has the deer family and has had lots of fun with them!


Armadillo Dreams is hosting a giveaway to celebrate their new website.  Hurry and go enter!  You could win a 3 Month Toy Subscription (a toy sent to your child each month for three months).

Plus you can take advantage of their 25% off sale!  These make great gifts for the children in your life!

What I'm Reading ("When Helping Hurts")

Ahhhhh a good book.  I remember devouring the Babysitter's Club series when I was a kid.  Fiction was what the genre of choice for me then.  

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Now as an adult, I still love fiction but non-fiction is attractive as well.
And, it is what I'm reading right now.

The description from amazon says in part "Churches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in the use of strategies that do considerable harm to poor people and themselves. Don't let this happen to you, your ministry or ministries you help fund!"

I'm halfway through the book right now and it is quite good.  I'm thinking differently about how I can help people most effectively without hurting or insulting them.

I bought my copy from a local Christian bookstore, you can see if your store carries it and if not, there is always amazon!

Friday Funny

Happy Friday!  

This made me giggle.

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Easter Basket Edibles (that aren't candy!)

Looking for something edible besides candy to put in your child's Easter basket this year?

Originally posted last year, here are 13 ideas for you!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-candy.  I'm not a super crunchy mom who is only putting organic oats and fair trade yarn in her childrens' Easter baskets.

• I love candy.  
• Our kids love candy.  
• I do not love being in my house after the kids have consumed an entire Easter Basket/Halloween Bucket/Christmas Stocking full of candy.  

So while they get a little bit, I try to limit it.  If, like me, you don't want to spend Easter weekend scraping young children off the walls, here are some ideas of treats you can put in their baskets!  Choose one or choose several for their baskets.  Whatever floats your boat.  :-)

1. Juice boxes
2. Granola bars (doesn't have to be the whole box!  Buy one box and stick a couple in each kid's basket)
3. Bag of microwave popcorn
4. Little cartons or baggies of Goldfish crackers
5. Mini boxes of cereal
6. Graham cracker sticks
7. Animal crackers
8. Pretzel sticks
9. Puffs (for the toddler age group)
10. Fruit cups
11. Jello cups
12. Baggy of Cheez-It crackers
13. Teddy Grahams

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