We have a winner!

I just love these monthly times of sharing our ideas! Thank you to all of you who took the time to post your family’s birthday traditions. If you haven’t read through the comments from this past week, you’ll want to do so. There are so many wonderful...

Birthday contest Day 6–Last day!

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...

Birthday contest Day 5

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...

Birthday contest Day 4

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’m so inspired!

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...

Brithday contest Day 3

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...

August Contest Day 2

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...

August contest!

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...

Happy Birthday, Austin

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...