Three Things : Weekdays + Creative Family Giveaway
One of the things that remains constant for all of us are the days
of the week. Each day of our lives present new stories to tell. When I
am on the lookout for supplies I gravitate towards anything that
includes the days of the week or some sort of calendar/date component. These are great supports for my everyday style of picture-taking and scrapbooking.
1. 7gypsies A Year In The Life clear stamps : Completely universal. I especially like stamps such as these that can be used on so many different projects.
2. Days of the week stickers from Papier Valise : Click on the paper section of her shop to access these stickers. Watch out, this shop has tons of great stuff. I also love the French days of the week stickers.
3. Teresa Collins Journal It collection : A bunch of the pieces in this collection include a calendar or day of the week accents (scroll down the link to see more of the collection).
[ Three Things is a weekly product series : check out the archives here. ]
Today's giveaway is a book I have been recently treasuring: The Creative Life: How To Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections by Amanda Soule.
This is one of those books I wish had been available before Simon was born. So many ideas for cultivating creativity and appreciating nature and living a very full and joyfully simple existence. A great gift for a new Mom or someone with small children in the house.
You can read more about Amanda on her wonderful blog: SouleMama.
Leave a comment below and let me know what is your favorite thing to do as a family that brings you closer together. A random winner will be chosen on Wednesday night around 5pm Pacific.
[ Look for today's layout to be posted at 10am pacific. ]
We recently started hiking and trying to find unknown walking trails around our house. i've been following SouleMama's blog since you mentioned it last time and I absolutely love reading about her creations and her family. I hope that when we have kids in the near future, I can do all of those things with them. I would love the book to help encourage mine and their (future :) creativity.
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Hi Ali. Our family loves to go to the park and play soccer. I have two girls (5 and 7) who are just nuts about soccer. We also like to take a family walk after dinner.
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Our favorite thing is a family dinner just about every night. With 4 kids in the house and tweens and toddlers...the meals aren't always relaxing and pleasant...but at least we are talking and communicating and together. Sometimes with families...that is what is important. I know the fighting won't be remembered, but my kids will remember that we had dinner together as a family. So for at least 20 min every day...we are together as a family.
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We like to explore outside for bugs & rocks. My son is 18 months old & totally into being outside. We talk about the birds & flowers. He also loves books but is most excited to talk about the things that he's seen in real life: trees, butterflies, trucks! :) We enjoy just being together & exploring with our boy.
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we definitely have "family night" every monday night. it's the best way to get everyone together because we know it happens every monday night. we sing songs and play games. it's the best!
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Our favorite thing to do together is to read books while snuggled in bed. It is such quality bonding time, plus great reading practice for my first grader!
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we love snuggling up in our bed with the our 2 year old son at the end of the day and reading stories. There are no distractions, just a mom, dad and a boy spending time together:)
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One thing that I really enjoy and we've started do A LOT of lately as a family is playing board games. My daughter is now getting old enough that she can really catch onto the rules and be competitive on her own, which she LOVES! My husband's family has a home made Wahoo! board and we've been playing a lot of that...and UNO...and we've even been teaching her Poker (is that wrong???).
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Our favorite family times always include some activity outside. Walking, skating, skiing, sledding, biking or just playing the sandbox and hanging out in the yard.
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right now, i think cooking together, especially cupcakes or brownies for a special ocassion, is what my two girls (6+3) are enjoying most right now. AND me reading to them every night in bed!
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Playing sports brings us together as a family. Even if its watching just one play. We're all out, but we all prefer to play! What a great give away! thanks ali!!
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Our favorite thing to do as a family is camping! We've been taking our daughter since she was four months old and we love it. Being outdoors together is so much fun and our daughter loves being outside.
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We all love to make cookies for any and every holiday. We all get to sit around the table cultivating conversation and creativity. Fun!
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As with lots of other people, it's the little things, but I think one of the most important things for us is just having dinner together at the table and talking about our day.
One of my fav times with the kids is at bedtime when we read stories!
That book looks great and I'm sure someone will really appreciate it!
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Our favorite family time, is dinner time, or more commonly breakfast time. My husband works night shift and crazy hours, so we take whatever meal we can get. It always ends up being a hodge podge of our personalities coming together!
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my favorite thing to do with the family is just gather. i love when we are all together on lazy afternoons -- just being a family. eating dinner, socializing, laughing, playing games, just spending time together. making memories.
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I don't know if it's something we enjoying doing together but we do it alot. Both of my girls play competive softball, so we attend all of their games together as a family. It is fun being outdoors together and watching some good ball usually.
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We have a family movie night--we pick a family friendly movie, pop up some popcorn and turn down the lights. It's been something we've really enjoyed.
We're also involved in the Scouting family program-designed to encourage family togetherness and communication-it's great.
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Our family loves "family game night" Our kids range in age from 2-10, so it's a lot of fun to pick what game to play. Even our youngest love to "play" our Wii. We give them a controller with no batteries and they play right along side us.
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Our favorite family time is when we just take the time to "hang out" as a family and BE with each other. We will go for a family walk or bike ride, play board games, Wii, make pizza together. I think we're all happy doing anything as long as we're all together!
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My favorite thing to do as a family is to go camping. I love being in the outdoors and watching my boys (3 & 5) explore the world around them. Hiking is probably our favorite camping activity next to roasting marshmellows of course. Thanks for the opportunity of the giveaway this book looks amazing!!
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Our family loves to camp and RV. We have the best times together as a family!! We are lucky because we have a beautiful state to explore (Oregon)!
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our family thing to do is lay in bed and boys jump/wrestle all over.. always great laughs :)
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This year I have really tried to make a commitment to being more present as a mom. I work from home and stay at home with my two boys and it is really easy just to go through the motions. We try to get out into the backyard or over to the small park near our house and just play together. So many time we are just sitting back watching the kids doing their thing, so we are working on being much more present in all that we do as a family.
Hope you had a great weekend - thanks for the inspiration Ali!
StacyS. (Alberta, Canada)
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I don't know if this is a favorite thing, but we all do family chores together and it is fun in it's own way! Our daughter loves to do anything to help, especially her dad - she will use any tools he gives her. We've had fun painting together and fixing things up. She and my husband both love that they know more mechanical things than I do! I have great memories of doing these simple things with my parents and I hope our daughter remembers these times fondly as well.
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