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Dollar Store Creative Halloween Costumes

These dollar store kids costumes ideas are super creative, but not expensive. Growing up, we always dressed up for Halloween and my mom was in charge of our fall festival at church. It was always a big deal for us to dress up and my super creative mom helped us...

Oct 7, 2020

Creative Halloween costumes ideas for kids using ideas from a local dollar store. Get outside the kids aisle or seasonal ideas and get creative as you pull together Halloween costumes, party design or everyday toddler and preschool ideas. #easyhalloweencostumes #cheaphalloweencostumes #dollarstorecostumes

Recipes

Crocktober Roundup

Today in honor of my dad, I thought I would do a fun blog round up and pull together my top Slow Cooker recipes to celebrate Crocktober. I love using my slow cooker for anything from soup, to making weeknight dinners, canning, and even a breakfast now and again....

Oct 6, 2020

26 Slow Cooker recipes that our family uses on repeat for weeknight dinners, gameday festivities, cozy meals, and comfort food soups to get you through winter.

Holidays Recipes

Ouachita Homecoming Snack Mix

Today is Homecoming at my beloved Ouachita. And this year looks a little different. Usually, by now I’ve picked out the perfect picture worthy outfits and bought my Tiger Tunes and football game tickets. But, none of those things are happening this year. But, it’s...

Oct 3, 2020

This fall cereal and harvest candy snack mix is the perfect way to celebrate college homecoming celebrations at Ouachita Baptist University. #fallsnacks #harvesttreats #fallsnack #cerealsnackmix

Holidays Recipes

Orange Honey Dijon Rustic Chicken Sheet Pan Meal

I developed this Orange Honey Dijon Rustic Chicken Sheet Pan Meal for our Epic Yellowstone Family Road Trip and it's pretty much going to be making a monthly appearance on our meal plans and probably at family holiday gatherings this fall and winter. This meal is...

Sep 30, 2020

This Orange Honey Dijon Rustic Chicken Sheet Pan Meal is perfect for family gatherings, camping meal plans, or healthy weeknight dinner and is weight watcher friendly using seasonal vegetables and chicken tenders. #sheetpanmeal #chickendinner #weightwatchermeal #ketofriendly #leanandgreen

Solutions

How small businesses can participate in Operation Christmas Child

I love Operation Christmas Child and this time of year, our family is counting our year-round collection of OCC shoebox supplies. I was recently asked by a small business how they could use their customers to gather and pack boxes for Operation Christmas Child. So...

Sep 28, 2020

Check out these tips for small businesses like fitness centers, retail stores, insurance offices to get their customers involved in packing Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. These tips are also great to get your business involved in collecting items for donation during the holidays. #occ #occpackingparty #ideasforshoeboxes #ideasforholidaydonations #collectingdonations

Family/Parenting Solutions Travel

Ultimate Family Road Trip

We embarked on the Epic Mount Rushmore-Yellowstone-Rocky Mountain Grand Adventure as the ultimate family road trip for 2020. Our goal was to make memories and see new places while staying socially distant and protecting our family. We traveled with a toddler, two...

Sep 26, 2020

This Ultimate Family Road Trip combines the highlights of exploring "out west" including Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain National Park. Check out the itinerary and travel tips. #bestfamilyroadtrip #safetravel #yellowstoneroadtripitinerary #outwest

Recipes Travel

Yellowstone Road Trip Menu

This Family Road Trip Menu is perfect for a long weekend together or an extended stay in an Airbnb or cabin. These family cabin meals were a perfect selection for our Epic Yellowstone Road Trip but would have worked just as good for our Southwest USA Road Trip last...

Sep 23, 2020

This Road Trip Menu and Grocery list for Yellowstone National Park extended to cover meals for Rocky Mountain National Park and a Family Road Trip to Badlands National Park, Estes Park and discovering wildlife at Grand Teton National Park. These ideas are meant to make vacation meal planning easy, healthy, and take all the work off mama. #yellowstoneroadtripmeals #vacationmeals #familycabinmeals #cookingatairbnb

Solutions Travel

11 Sanitary and Safe Social Distancing Travel Tips

These sanitary and safe social distancing travel tips are perfect for the fall family road trip. We took an Epic Family Road Trip to Yellowstone this summer and these 11 tips are my gift from what we learned. With friends taking their kids to the beach for virtual...

Sep 16, 2020

These tips for sanitary and safe social distancing travel in 2020 will protect your family from germs on a road trip. Just a few adjustments and your family can still travel and make memories safely. #covidtravel #sanitationtipsfortravel #socialdistanceroadtrip

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