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What to Expect at SeaWorld Spooktacular and Howl-O-Scream in 2018

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Big thank you to SeaWorld San Antonio for sponsoring my family to visit their park for the day in order to check out their SeaWorld Halloween 2018 offerings - Spooktacular and Howl-O-Scream! Read on to discover what is new this year. This past Monday was Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day and most kids here had the day off, so we decided ...

40+ Nativity Advent Calendars to Help You Focus on Christ’s Birth All Month Long

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Celebrate Christmas was a nativity advent calendar! Check out all the beautiful Christian advent calendars! I found a great variety of wooden nativity advent calendars, felt and fabric advent calendars, magnet advent calendars, and more! Enjoy these more religious advent calendars! Each year we try hard to make sure that in the whirlwind of ...

30 Special Uses for Bar Keepers Friend Guaranteed to Make You Buy a Can

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There seems to be an almost endless amount of Bar Keepers Friend uses! Read on to discover 30 special uses for Bar Keepers Friend all around your home, from cleaning stainless steel to glass to an acrylic tub and so much more! Ever since I was introduced to Bar Keepers Friend, years ago now, by a friend, I have used it again and again. This stuff ...

Best Educational Board Games and Card Games for Kids 3-18

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If you are interested in educational board games for kids, this is the list for you! Find the best educational board games for preschoolers, kindergarten, and older elementary students in this post. Who doesn't love board games? I grew up playing board games with my siblings all the time, and my husband and I love a good game night. When ...

How to Put Together a Perfectly Costumed Nativity Scene

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If you are acting out the Christmas story, chances are you want some awesome nativity costumes to go along with its telling. Well, this post is all about where to find nativity costumes and how to make your own nativity costumes for both adults and kids! Acting out the nativity story found in Luke 2 is a favorite Christmas tradition for many ...

30+ Scientific Board Games that Combine Fun with Learning

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Finding the perfect scientific board game that is both educational and fun to play again and again is quite the feat! Read on to discover the very best science board games in the areas of biology, chemistry, astronomy, geology and more. I did fine in all my science classes in middle school and high school, but I didn't particularly enjoy them. ...

50+ of the Best Toy Advent Calendars for Kids in 2018

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Looking for a toy advent calendar for kids? Surprise them with one of the following advent calendars with toys in them! Doing an advent calendar with the kids can be super fun. It gets them extra excited for the big day by giving them a little something along the way, whether that's a treat, a scripture, a challenge, or even a toy. It's why I ...

How to Easily Make Your Own Felt 3D Dinosaur Head with Chomping Jaw

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Wondering how to make a 3D dinosaur head as easily as possible? Well, here's a super quick, easy way to make a T Rex head costume using felt! Plus, this dinosaur head costume even has a chomping jaw. We only have one son and we like to make sure he can express all his inner boy-ness and love of cars, trains, firefighting, and dinosaurs to his ...

The Simple Way to Make a DIY Unicorn Costume with Felt and Light-Up Horn

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Looking for an easy DIY unicorn costume? Then follow along to learn how to make a homemade unicorn costume for kids! In only a few minutes your child will be sporting a felt unicorn head! Unicorns have been a cultural phenomenon for centuries, but I feel like even more so in the last few years. I myself have enjoyed things featuring ...

Living DNA Review – What Makes It Different than Ancestry and 23andMe

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After taking both an AncestryDNA and 23andMe DNA test, I still decided to take a third DNA test, this time from Living DNA. Here's my Living DNA review and my reasons why I decided to take this one too. I love family history. It's so much fun to me to search for long-lost cousins, long since dead. I'm not sure why exactly. I guess I see it as ...