Why We Don’t Do Halloween

Tweet This time of year it’s impossible to avoid ghosts, goblins, jack-o-lanterns, and witches, except around here. If you’ve noticed, the most I’ve talked about Halloween, here at From Dates to Diapers, was last August when I discussed my kiddos love for costumes, even though we do not participate in Halloween-related activities. I know what [...]

An Extra Hour

Tweet This Sunday we turn our clocks back an hour. That means we actually gain an extra hour! How are you going to spend that hour? Instead of trying to get caught up on work or the laundry {sigh}, consider pledging to spend that hour as special time with your children. When you pledge, Frigidaire [...]

The 30 Day Giving Challenge

Tweet With Galations 6:9 as her inspiration my sweet friend, Alyssa, recently created the 30 Day Giving Challenge to begin on November 1st. The idea is to give of yourself every day during the month of November. She says we can give our time, talents, money, assets, or just do something nice for a neighbor. [...]

The Magic of Disney (times 11!)

Tweet "Our Trip to Disneyland" Create a free slideshow with Picnik! Our visit to Disneyland this month was one exciting adventure. We had the privilege of going with the Kuczykowski clan and, boy – did we have fun with our eleven kid entourage! The park was just a bit more crowded than I remember it [...]

Punkin’ Cake

Tweet Most of my friends know me as having a major sweet-tooth. This reputation does not come from my love of cakes, cookies, or sweet breads, but more from my love of candy! Sure, I love a good cake, but definitely have my favorites. Carrot Cake and Pumpkin Cake are two for which I would [...]

Happy 9th Birthday Ethan and Zach!

Tweet I’ve told this story a million times. And I could tell it a million more. I truly feel that our story is an amazing testament to the Hand of God working in my life and the lives of my babies. We were created and preserved for great things, I am convinced! Ray and I [...]

Clorox Magic

Tweet With a house full of boys, our bathrooms never seem to stay clean and fresh, so the daily chore of scouring them is all but welcome. When I was asked to try out the Clorox ToiletWand, I immediately thought “Sure, why not… anything to make my job cleaning the toilets easier!” Come to find [...]

We {heart} Olive Kids

Tweet Each of my kiddos were recently gifted with a personalized meal time set from Olive Kids. Julia’s butterfly set arrived first, as a surprise, and the boys were just thrilled that she received something so frilly, as our house somewhat lacks in the “girly” department. When I mentioned that each of my boys could [...]

Creativity at it’s best

Tweet My kiddos are always eager to create masterpieces. I am so glad that they don’t need me to guide them in the process, because I am so NOT creative. I love that I can give them paints and paper and let them go wild! All of my older kiddos get in on the action, [...]

Astro Boy :: in theaters this Friday!

Tweet As you may already know, my entire family was invited to Southern California, a couple of weekends ago, for a special viewing of the much anticipated movie, Astro Boy, at the Dick Clark Screening Room. Let me tell you, this movie was a hit with all our whole family! Even Noah snuggled quite content [...]

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