Parenting
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Happy 2019?
Be Careful What You Wish For 2019 is not off to the start I was expecting. Granted, my house is clean, as I was forced to clean it in an attempt to keep a lovely stomach virus from spreading. Apparently, my cleaning skills are lacking, or my cleaning products. Let’s say it’s the latter. I, unfortunately, have no one else to blame but myself though. As I was updating our white-board calendar in the kitchen for the first week of January 2019, I was amazed to find that every day until school starts again was filled. Granted, I was looking forward to the things as they involved seeing friends, ice…
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What do you do with all the candy?
If you’re like my family, who loves Halloween—dressing up and trick-or-treating with friends—but doesn’t love all the candy and sickness that invariably follows, you might want to try what our family does. After trick-or-treating, we let our girls eat some candy. (If you’re going to trick-or-treat, you have to at least have some! If you want to make sure your kids only eat certain types of candy though, say made with organic ingredients, you can always buy the candy you approve of beforehand and switch their candy once you get home before they eat any. We have friends who do this and it works great for their family.) Whatever is…
