Tradition #6: The birthday person doesn’t have to do any of their regular chores on their birthday!Share your family’s birthday traditions by posting a comment to this blog post. Make sure and put your email address in the comment so I can contact you if...
Tradition #5: With so many children and so many birthdays in our family we’re on the “every other year” plan for birthday parties. Each child may have a birthday party with friends every other year. On the other years they may have 1 friend spend the...
Tradition #4: We recently started the tradition of going around the table at our birthday breakfast and having each person say one thing they appreciate about the birthday person. This fosters encouragement among family members and affirms the birthday person!Join our...
I just love when we run a contest because we can learn so much from each other! Thank you to all of you who have shared your birthday traditions. I’m getting so many new ideas!If you haven’t yet, do go through and read the comments from each birthday post...
Tradition #3: The birthday person gets to choose the kind of cake we have. Three of my kids always pick a funfetti cake, 1 picks chocolate, 1 likes a homemade ice cream cake. Post your birthday traditions to put your name in the hat for a Hearts at Home book of your...
Tradition #2: After the birthday person goes to sleep on the night before their birthday, we sneak into their room and decorate with streamers and balloons. We also make a waterfall of streamers that hang in their doorway so they have to walk through them every time...
Since a birthday celebration has been a part of our week, I decided to make my August contest about birthday traditions. Every family has different birthday traditions. And many times we pick up ideas for our family from other families. So this week is dedicated to...
Yesterday was birthday day at the Savage’s. Our youngest, Austin, turned 12. My baby is getting awfully close to being a teenager!Austin has consistently made one request for a birthday present. He wanted a bunny. His older siblings had a two bunnies for several...
“When my kids become unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.”~Erma Bombeck
I stopped in my tracks as I read the sign standing next to two massage chairs in the middle of the shopping mall: RELAX, IN A HURRY! Are our lives so fast-paced that we even feel we need to relax in a hurry?Several years ago I learned about distinguishing the...
I simply said, “Erica, you need to see this sunset. You might want to take some pictures. It’s gorgeous,” and she got up off the couch and forgot all about the show she was watching.Earlier this summer I said, “Boys, have you thought about...
Does that picture creep you out? It’s a bit blurry, but there’s no missing the essence of the image.Imagine my reaction when I was getting a laundry load out of the dryer and discovered this “bug.”It seems that one of my boys picked up the...
With Evan’s upcoming wedding, I’ve hardly had a moment to think past the wedding date. But I’m doing some catch up today online before wedding week hits and I wanted to let you know that I’m going to be speaking at an event in both Kentucky and...
True love is not just a feeling. It’s a deliberate decision to act in the best interest of the person you love. ~Edwina Patterson
This week has been an emotional rollercoaster. Mark and I dropped our two youngest boys off at church camp on Sunday afternoon. It’s their first time to go to camp and they were definitely nervous. After getting them settled, I got in the car and started crying....
