Hello Friends! The holiday season is rapidly approaching. Thanksgiving is this Thursday, and after that we will be decking the halls to prepare for Christmas! Have you started to prepare for the holidays? If you are looking for some easy and creative way to wrap your gifts, you have come to the right place. I am…
Give this easy Dollar Tree DIY sign art project a try! This post contains affiliate links. As always, all opinions are my own. Do you realize that there are less than 70 days until Christmas? With the holidays quickly approaching, I am thankful that my sweet friend Susie from The Chelsea Project invited me to join the…
Follow these simple guidelines to help your child find just right books, books that they can read and comprehend independently. Do you ever take your children to the bookstore or the library and wonder if the books that they pick out are the right reading level for them? As an experienced teacher, so many parents…
Help your child learn to read with these five tried and true reading strategies for decoding text. As my children were growing up, one of my favorite things to do was to read with them. I loved to be able to share my love of reading and books with them. We read stories that took…
Fifteen ways to help your child be successful in school as they grow throughout their elementary school years. Raising my children is one of the hardest jobs I will ever have to do, but it is definitely the most important and rewarding. As parents, we look at our precious children with so much love, adoration,…
This easy and delicious homemade chili recipe is classic recipe that can be made in the crockpot or on the stovetop. Tomorrow we welcome fall! What better way to greet the new season than with this amazing Crockpot chili?! This chili is a family favorite during the week, when my Crockpot becomes a permanent fixture on…