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Cyber Monday Gratitude GIVEAWAY!!!!!

2016-11-28 aprilmomoffour attitude, giveaways, giving, thank yous, thankful

How’s everyone’s Cyber Monday going? Ours was great. We did no shopping, but I did go to my cardio aqua-therapy class!! So fun and invigorating! This giveaway is for two packs of fill-in-the-blank notes from Lil’ Miss Gratitude!! One of your packs will be thank-yous, and the other pack will either be birthday cards or “Hello” cards. The front of the cards come blank so your kids color the front, or you can also send them out uncolored! These are […]

Do your kids love writing thank you notes???…..So here’s a solution.

2016-11-15 aprilmomoffour birthday, parenting, thank yous, thankful

Our family has never been known for our stellar thank-you note etiquette. Instead, thank you notes typically make my boys want to actually return their presents. “Skylanders, YES!!!!!” “THANK YOU NOTES??? Oh, um, oh, uh. Moaaaannnnnn….Groannnnn….” Look, it’s not that they are ungrateful. They SAID thank-you 100 times, jumped up and down, and gave the giver a hug. We are thankful, okay. But sitting down in an actual chair and WRITING out thank you notes??? Apparently some people don’t love […]

The Fifth Family Day at Home: Chaos reigns.

2014-01-22 aprilmomoffour accomplishment, anemia, art, blog, de-cluttering, thank yous, The Great Clean Out

family drawing by Caleb Today is the fifth day straight that the kids have been out of school and the first day that Daddy has gone back to work. (We had the weekend + MLK Jr. Day + 2 snow days). I think we’re all starting to feel a little restless. Okay, a lot restless. I got so tired of the boys carrying on at lunch (during the baby’s nap) that I took everyone’s bowl away and banished them […]