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My 4 Favorite Homemaking Hacks for 2018

2017-12-28 aprilmomoffour being frugal, big family life, books, family, housekeeping, marriage

I love Christmas break. Time off from spelling tests, chauffeur duties, graded papers, packing lunches, and best of all I’m not desperately rushing everyone to not be late…..oh how I love time off. We always spend a few days at my parent’s house and a few days at Alan’s parents’ house, and it’s such a blessing to spend time with them and soak up the rest and good conversation. With people you see on a daily basis, it can be […]

A Parent Review of ABCmouse: Keeping Our Brains Working Through Summer

2017-07-18 aprilmomoffour parenting, preschool, toddlers

Like most moms, I TRY to keep my children from letting all of their knowledge fall out over the summer. Any “book learnin’” my four boys accomplish over the summer is typically solely because I forced them to do it. Maybe your kids aren’t like mine, I don’t know, but my children never ASK me to do workbook pages and catch up on their reading logs. When I was a little girl, I LOVED doing workbooks, but that is […]