Finding The Good
Tips on how to motivate your teen to practice the piano. Information about learning music at home with the Skoove app. See why we give this awesome piano-learning app our note of approval! Piano lessons can be so hard. For teens and adults, sometimes it’s hard to feel motivated to keep up on piano lessons. My kids have… Read More
How to find balance with digital technology in our lives using Google’s digital wellbeing tools and tips. Digital technology is an integral part of our lives now, and it’s not going away. But sometimes we can feel overwhelmed by technology and the need to use our phones and devices all the time. We feel a need for more balance so… Read More
Fun painted rock ideas for kids and how to use painted rocks to teach children. You guys, I couldn’t help myself . . . when I saw painted rock ideas popping up on Pinterest and Google I knew that it was a kids craft I had to try. I mean, you know I created the Buggles craft for kids and… Read More
How to make fun origami bookmarks with your tweens. Includes a free printable origami bookmarks and all the instructions you need! Hello blissful friends! It’s no secret that raising children who love to read has been proven to help them with literacy, vocabulary and comprehension skills. For our family, reading is such a big deal. I made it a point… Read More
Happy New Year! I’m Lisa’s daughter and I’m sharing this wonderful Printable Vision Board Kit with you. Every year, I make New Year’s Resolutions. Until recently, I would just write them in a list and then lose the list and never accomplish those goals because I couldn’t remember them. When my cute neighbor introduced me to the idea of vision… Read More
Merry Christmas my blissful friends! I hope this holiday season is treating you well so far. As you know my site is loaded with ideas for the #LightTheWorld initiative that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints puts on every year to help people look a little more outside of themselves and find simple ways to do Christ-like service… Read More
Hi! I hope you are excited as I was to learn about these simple, but fun musical pipes. When Jay at musicalpipes.com asked me to try out their pipe chimes and share my review I was pretty excited to try them out. I have seen these musical chimes used at church, family gatherings, and music classes for kids and I… Read More
How to teach your kids to be kind on the internet using the free Be Internet Awesome games and lessons from Google! Parents, this article is a must-read. Give me five minutes to tell you why. When I first started blogging 5 years ago, the internet was a place that I felt was still very dangerous for kids. As a… Read More
Today I am sharing something pretty personal. The full story is over at Deseret News today and is sponsored by BonCom because they are trying to bring awareness to the issue of teenage anxiety. I hope that this helps someone out there. There was a period of about eight years in my life that I constantly experienced pain in my… Read More
My kidlets finally are going back in school. You know how I am normally super sentimental about things like that? And how I hate my kids to grow up? And how I hate saying goodbye? Well, not today. For some reason this year, I feel just fine about my kidlets in school. We had a long summer and I’m one… Read More
Zion’s Camp is a new missionary prep camp for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A great camp to prepare kids to go on a mission. By Tara Kay *This post is sponsored by Southern Virginia University It’s 6:30 on a hot Monday morning in July, and 16 year old Aubrie Bushard is already rolling out… Read More
As you may know, my cute kidlets are growing out of the little kid stage and moving into their teens and tweens, so I don’t have a cute little preschooler anymore. But I have to say that is one of the stages of childhood that I love the most. I adore the preschool age. So I still create preschool items… Read More