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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 […]

My One of a Kind MawMaw and Her Secret for Happiness

2015-11-16 aprilmomoffour attitude, poetry, thankful

The other day, as I dug through the books on my shelves, I came across a book I have thought of a lot lately, a book like no other. It’s the little book of Poetry, written by my grandmother, BHK. We’ll call her Beth. Beth died when I was 16, of breast cancer. Her death was one of those that didn’t sit well with anyone. No one said, “Well, it was just her time to go.” Everyone was more like, […]

Why Thankfulness is So Important

2015-11-02 aprilmomoffour attitude, thankful

Any day now it will start to look like Christmas. I, of all people, should not be a Scrooge. I decided to own this whole Christian thing twenty years ago, and yet Christmas gets on my nerves a little bit. Not like Scrooge. More like Charlie. You know, Charlie Brown. I love that guy. No, I mean, way more than the average Joe likes him. I, no joke, read every single Charlie Brown collection at my city library when I […]

A Quiet House, Thankfulness, and Sweet Relief

2015-10-20 aprilmomoffour back pain, homeschool, thankful

My house is quiet! My house is quiet! Did I mention my house is quiet?? The oldest children are off on a play date. JD is taking his nap, and the house is quiet. Can you feel the excitement?? I’m so excited; I could dance around and make carpet angels……if I had more energy. However, I’m old, and I spent all of my energy on teaching them and making their lunch, so instead I’m going to throw a VIRTUAL party, sitting […]

You Can Change Your Life By Changing Your Thoughts

2015-10-16 aprilmomoffour attitude, Bible, Bible verses, thankful

“You can change your life by changing your thoughts.” —Denise Cunningham I’m still benefitting from my retreat. In fact, look at me. It’s been a week, and I’m STILL talking about it. This thought-changing lesson is one that God is really drilling into my brain lately. First, it came up in the book I’ve been reading, Unglued, by Lysa Terkeurst. Then Denise brought it up at the retreat. The importance of our thought life cannot be overstated. It will change […]