Summer Boredom Busters for Kids

Summer Boredom Busters for Kids

Looking for ways to bust kids’ boredom? Here’s a list of more than 40 at-home activities to consider: Go for a walk in the woods Host a family movie night with “fancy” popcorn (ours includes M&Ms) Make a craft like friendship bracelets Get creative with empty...

Creating a Summer Bucket List

Last year, my kids and I tried out an experiment: A Summer Bucket List! We wrote out 60 things we’d like to do over the course of the summer, posted the list on our refrigerator, and started working our way through them. By the end of the summer, we had accomplished...

10 Ways to Be Kind to Your Neighbor

It’s the time of year that people make resolutions–things they hope to achieve in the coming year. I don’t like the word “resolutions” because I can never seem to keep them, but I do like the word “goals.” One of my goals for...

25 Days of Christmas Kindness

It’s our 6th year of Advent Acts of Kindness: Six years of doing one kind act each day from December 1-25. Six years of brainstorming ideas and asking others for theirs; six years of planning and plotting that culminates in December. Six years of feeling the joy...