Finding The Good
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
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 parent I did not see enough information being taught to children and teens about the dangers of technology. I began writing articles… 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
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 of bed. She kneels down to say her morning prayers, excited to go to classes and learn about how to teach the gospel. Now, Aubrie is a past participant in… 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
You know we are truly living in modern times when playtime is combined with learning. Nowadays the combination of learning and fun is so creatively done that kids may not even notice how much they are learning because of the pure enjoyment that comes from these new activities . . . well at least that’s the hope, right? My daughter’s… Read More
Free printables and 11 ideas to help you light the world this Christmas . . . here’s why. I’ve been thinking . . . thinking about Christmas. Usually at this point, I’m fully into all the magic this holiday provides. It’s my favorite time of the ENTIRE year. But this year I have been BUSY. Just busy with good, normal… Read More
I’ve been thinking about happy families lately. It’s September, it’s a new school year. My kidlets are growing up and I sometimes feel like I’m grasping at straws to keep us all together–to figure out the uncharted territory of teens and the new problems we face. Having a connected family is extremely important to me. I’m one of those that… Read More
What is your story? We all have one. Mine started with Oreos at the dinner table. As I sat one evening with my family chomping Oreos together, I watched my kidlets start licking the creamy middles of their cookies. It brought back a memory from my childhood. I randomly sang out the Oreo jingle from the 80’s, “Who’s that kid… Read More
I teach music to children every Sunday. It’s my way of helping at our LDS church. I am the Primary music chorister for all children in our congregation (or ward as we call them) ages 3-11 years old. Then I also teach music to the tiny kids in nursery, ages 18 months to 3 years old, every Sunday as well…. Read More