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This was a fun and meaningful one that we definitely need to do more of daily. My middle daughter and I like to occasionally write back and forth to each other using the I Love You Pillow. It's really special to receive just a quick little heartfelt…
I gave Mark's grandma a family tree booklet over the holidays. She filled it out entirely with all sorts of neat photos and memories. Well, this lead to a lot more questions from us all. The most amazing thing for me was when she told about their ad…
January: New Year's Eve - Gathering with friends.
February: Hailey's Birthday - The entire family comes to help her celebrate.
March: Mark's Birthday - Just the 5 of us celebrate together over a French silk pie
April: Emily's Birthday and Easter - T…
We made some adjustments to Family Fun Night over our Christmas vacation and instead of putting in ideas to do on our Friday Fun Night we put in ideas that we wanted to do over Christmas break. The ideas included such things as going to see Christma…
One of our great dinner conversations that dealt with gratitude was, "Which do you appreciate most: sight, sound, taste, touch or smell?". We all actually came to the same conclusion that sight is the one we appreciate the most and the hardest to li…
I came out to be the family educator when I took the test. Oh, this is so me! I think building character and teaching values is so important. Whenever anyone has asked me what I most hope to give my children my answer has always been to help them bu…
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- At 11:48am on March 12, 2009,
Christine Tranel said… - Hi Lisa,
Saw that you were on so wanted to say hi.
Christine
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Yes, wouldn’t that be like heaven? You walk around the house and without saying a word, backpacks, toys and clothes are picked up…dishes are cleared off the table and towels are hung back on the towel rack. Dirty clothes actually go into the dirty clothes basket and you no longer walk into the kitchen to [...]
The Power of Unexpected Kindness
The idea of Door Knob Drops came from my sister, Teri, who lives with her two boys in Moraga, California. One year there were several kids on their street that were graduating from some school or another; sixth grade, eighth grade or twelfth grade. Teri and her boys put together some very simple treats with [...]
What Would You Do?
Last night my boys, Dylan and Travis, were helping me cut out Bingo Boards and put together Bingo Button sacks. It was really late and I was trying to get everything photographed for this first Five in One Family Fun email. Normally they go to bed by 9:15 but it was 9:30 and I hadn’t [...]
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