Keeping Cool and Hydrated

Tweet Cooling off in the water is one of our favorite things to do on hot summer days, like today. Ben and Noah are just about swimming on their own, and Timmy just loves to splash and play with his older brothers and sister. Good times! Did you publish your favorite picture/s this week? I’d [...]

A Summer Evening

Tweet The weather in these parts have been fairly mild as of late. Sure, the days have been warm, but the evenings have been beautiful. For more inspiring photos, check out 5 Minutes for Mom, The Bonafide Life, Better in Bulk, Shanamama, Not Your Momblog,The Divine Miss Mommy, Colorado Moms, Rajean Blomquist, High Impact Mom and Zensible Mama and link your own photo stories.

Keeping Cool at Sonic

Tweet What do the Youngs do to keep cool on a hot summer day? We go to Sonic for ice cream, of course! Last Sunday was particularly sweltering, with the mercury rising over 100. It didn’t seem quite so hot, though, when noshing on Sonic Blast’s made with real delicious ice cream and chunks of [...]

Peach Crisp {A Delicious Summer Treat}

Tweet We simply love peaches. Fresh is best, of course, but we’ll eat them out of a jar, in a cobbler, or even in smoothies. I was jonesin’ for a dish-ful of warm peach crisp yesterday, so I searched for a good recipe. None of my foodie friends seemed to be of much help (I [...]

Huck Finn?

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Backyard Discovery

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Borders’ Summer Reading Tip #2

Tweet This week’s tip on encouraging your young’ens to read is brought to you by HarperCollins:: Encourage your children to read books about people who are different from them. In fact, Katherine Paterson, recently named National Ambassador for Children’s Literature by the Library Of Congress and author of many award-winning books for children, including Bridge [...]

Borders’ Double-Dog Dare Summer Reading Challenge

Tweet Even though most of my older kiddos love to read, now that summer is here and all of the neighbor kids are knocking on our door, I’m having a tough time getting them to sit still with a book. Even my younger tykes would rather be running around outside or playing on their new [...]

Warm Summer Nights

Tweet A fire pit is often overlooked, it seems to me, when people are putting their backyards together. BBQ, check. Patio furniture, check. Fire pit…do we need that? The answer is, “Yes.” But, only if you want to have great fun on many a cool summer evening with your kids. I can bet that they [...]

Water Play

Tweet We love to play in the water on these hot summer days! Two of my kiddos are missing from these series of pics… They were with us at the park, but didn’t feel especially open to having their picture taken. I’ll get ‘em next time! Visit more Wordless Wednesday participants at 5 Minutes for [...]

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