Living, Loving, & Learning Together
Did you know January is National Soup Month? When the weather turns cold, there’s nothing like a piping hot bowl of soup to warm you from the inside out. This creamy potato soup recipe will really hit the spot. This is adapted from one of the “Freezer Pleaser” class my kids and I took last summer through our county extension…
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Whether you’ve watched the movie every Christmas for decades or are seeing it for the very first time, we have an It’s a Wonderful Life trivia quiz for you!
Will you be hosting an open house, office party, or church get-together this holiday season? Then today’s printable “Getting to Know You” game is for you. Use it as an ice breaker at your next gathering and give your guests a reason to mingle. To play, print enough copies for each guest to have one. Then charge them with finding…
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If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you know I love Christmas movies and trivia quizzes. So combining the two makes a lot of sense, wouldn’t you agree? When most people think of Christmas movies, they think of It’s a Wonderful Life, White Christmas, and Miracle on 34th Street. (If this describes you, stay tuned. Those trivia…
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Today’s new party game is a free printable version of Christmas Charades. We have a bunch of teens coming to our house for a white elephant gift exchange tonight, so I printed up a set of these cards to keep them busy once all the presents have been opened. There are 18 sheets in all (times eight cards per sheet…
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I’m back with another new holiday party game today: a Christmas by the Numbers Quiz. If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you probably realize I love trivia. In fact, testing our knowledge of obscure facts is a favorite pastime of our entire family. The inspiration for this quiz came from a trivia set we played on…
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned about my blog readers, it’s that you love Christmas games almost as much as I do. Every December, my traffic explodes with people coming to download the 12 Days of Christmas Party Games I published several years back. Well, this year, I have 12 Days of ALL NEW Christmas Party Games to share. And…
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It’s been awhile since I’ve reviewed any Timberdoodle products. But as Christmas approaches, I’ve been browsing Timberdoodle’s website in search of fun, new gift ideas. This little U-Gears Knight on Horseback definitely fits the bill. It’s new to the Timberdoodle catalog. So they sent me a free kit. That way, one of my children could be a guinea pig and…
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Schedules have finally slowed down for our family a bit. It has been nice to be back into the routine of school. I’ve gotten a lot of reading done in the past four weeks, finishing six books and nearing completion of several others. Here are my impressions of the titles I read in September: How to Battle Depression and Suicidal…
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Today, I’m sharing my go-to sources for the vintage artwork I use in many of my printables.
Although I’m ahead on my reading goals for the year, I only finished three books in August. It was a busy, distracted sort of month! What’s more, I spent a bunch of the month on the road. That’s why all three of the titles I “read” were audiobooks — two of them freebies from my favorite supplier, christianaudio.com. (This is…
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My blog mailbox is overflowing again with messages and requests from readers. So I plan to respond to as many as I can over the next few months. For this week’s Mailbag Monday, I’m fulfilling a request I’ve received from several eager readers recently. One wrote me in May to find out how soon I’d publish the 2020 edition of…
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