Summer Planning

The first posts in this series are here, here and here. Today we have a few more tips on setting summer goals with our kids. No one wants to feel overwhelmed by work in the summer so the key to setting a good summer goal(s) is to make sure the activity is something they love [...]

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We live in Texas. Texas is awesome. Texas is big. When we take a vacation, it takes half our time just to get out of the state. Our road trips are always at least 6 hours, but more often 12-26 round trip. As a result, we have to be very intentional about planning in order [...]

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(Bandana on ponytail? Check. Sleeves rolled up? Check. Glow in the dark shirt TUCKED IN? Check. Clearly, I was a fashion icon.) The summer I turned 7 my family surprised me and took me to an Amy Grant concert. As is embarrassingly evident in this picture (taken when I was 12), I was a huge [...]

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Photo Credit I had a really nifty post all written. It was about how to set goals with our children. It was 600 words long. Then Valerie left this comment on our Facebook page: There was a verse we used to evaluate the balance in our summers. (my 5 boys are now grown men). Luke [...]

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Photo Credit The nerdy girl who loses her braces, gets contacts and comes back in the fall as the coolest girl on campus. The little freshman runt who grows a foot, works out and returns to school as the football hero. Maybe it’s all the teeny bopper movies I watched when I was younger, but [...]

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Photo Credit Ah…lazy, summer days. Popsicles and plastic swimming pools. Friends and family. Bbq’s and summer camps. Who doesn’t look forward to and dream of the first day of summer vacation? Mothers of small children. That’s who. Of course, that’s not a blanket statement. There are plenty of you wonderful, saintly moms who have infinite [...]

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