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DIY {Hand Warmers} Sewing Tutorial

01/21/13 | Gift Ideas, Holidays, Winter

DIY Hand Warmers Sewing TutorialThis is a sewing tutorial on How to Make Microwavable Hand Warmers!  Yay, another project to get your sewing machine out of storage!We just moved to a really cold place. Northern Utah. We moved here from Southern Utah, where it is nice and semi-warm during the winter months, so my kids are freakin' freezing now. We are not used to this weather. My kids hands ...

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14 Ways You Can Help Your Child’s School

08/04/17 | Back To School

14 Ways to Help Your Child's School

“This is a sponsored post with compensation received from General Mills. As always, all opinions are my own..” When our children attend a public school, sometimes it's hard to know how to help our schools be successful. Today I'm going to share 14 different ideas you can use to help your child's school. Whether it be by volunteering in the classroom, donating supplies or correcting papers, ...

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10 Unique Wedding Gifts the Bride and Groom will Love and Use

06/26/17 | Gift Ideas, Gifts, Sponsored

10 Unique Wedding Gifts the Mr and Mrs will Love

"This is a sponsored post on behalf of Ecuadane. All opinions are my own. This post contains affiliate links." Summer is the season for Weddings. Love is in the air and we always have a few weddings to attend each summer. The hardest part for me is choosing what to buy the happy couple. I want to try and choose something unique that both the husband and wife will enjoy, and something they will ...

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How To Stop Doing Everything For Your Kids

03/14/17 | Chore Cards, cleaning tips, Home, Kids, Parenting

How to stop doing everything for your kids

When I was learning Child Development in High School and College I learned that if you don't let a child do things for himself, he will never learn. I listened and agreed, but then I started teaching preschool. I was young and impatient and when the kids were doing a hard puzzle, I'd help them twist the pieces so they would fit. Maybe it's my perfectionism, maybe it's impatience, but it definitely ...

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10 Sports Bras that Don’t Give You Uniboob

01/17/17 | shopping

I know that a lot of us have resolved to exercise more this year for various reasons. Whether it be to lose weight, to be healthier or to feel better and be around longer for our families. The down side for a lot of us who are big busted, is getting dressed to exercise. I absolutely hate wearing workout clothes because I'm very self conscious. So anything that helps me feel better about the way I ...

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4 Books That Teach Kids About a Presidential Election + Book Pack Giveaway

10/19/16 | Family, Family Activities, Holidays, Kids, Kids Crafts and Coloring, Parenting

4 Books that teach your kids about the presidential election

"This post contains affiliate links. Learn more here. Thank you Scholastic for working with me on this post and for offering one of my readers this awesome gift pack of books." Unless you literally live underground, under a rock, with no internet, TV, radio or contact with the outside world, you know we are in the middle of a Presidential Election. I'd like to take a break from Facebook for a ...

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Hi, I’m Annette Belnap! I’m a mom of five, wife to a paraglider, preschool teacher for 20+ years, daycare owner, and a YouTube Preschool Teacher. Here on the blog, I share real-life parenting tips, easy family recipes, fun printables, and mom hacks that actually work. Let’s make the chaos a little more joyful—together!

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