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How To Keep Your Kids Busy When You’re Stuck At Home

March 19, 2020 by BlessingsInSurprise

There are a lot of people right now who are stuck at home with their kids due to global health concerns.  Because of this, I decided to write a post to try to help those who may be struggling to keep their kids busy at home without everyone losing their minds!  Here are some creative ideas you may not have thought of before.

1. Have a newspaper fashion show

This is a great activity to get your kids’ creative juices flowing!  All you do is… Read More »

Filed Under: Faith and Family, More Tagged With: activities, activities for kids, Corona, covid, creative ideas, family time, how can i keep my kids busy, keeping my kids entertained, kids, virus, ways to keep my kids busy

Take Better Care of Your Kids by Taking Better Care of Yourself

March 14, 2018 by BlessingsInSurprise

As a parent, it seems only natural to put myself last at every opportunity.  Yesterday, however, my eyes were opened to a new phenomenon.

A few years ago, I got married, moved to the country and became a full-time mother to my husband’s 3 kids.  I really haven’t done too much of anything for myself on a regular basis since I took on these new responsibilities.  It’s also very rare that I ever see or talk to my friends from back home.

I want my family to come first no matter what.  However, I just learned … Read More »

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Raising Self-Sufficient Kids

February 20, 2018 by BlessingsInSurprise

One of the hardest things about being a parent is keeping up with all of the housework!  Whether you have one kid or 10+, doesn’t it always seem like you have 20???  I know it does for me, and I only have three kids!!!  My gameroom can go from clean to THIS (see picture below) over the course of an hour!!!  It’s like I’m raising three tornadoes sometimes!!!

In a society that encourages laziness, entitlement and taking the easy way out, it can be very challenging to instill work ethic into our children.  The BEST thing that you can possibly do to help yourself in this area is… Read More »

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I'm Anne, a city girl gone country! I garden, preserve food and raise chickens, but most of all, I love to spend time with my husband, three kids and our pack of German Shorthair Pointers.

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