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How to Create a Family Cookbook With Your Kids

kid_made_cookbook_3kid_made_cookbook_4kid_made_cookbookEver wanted to tackle making a family cookbook with your kids? I’m so excited to show you how we made a scrapbook of our favorite foods and food traditions together. Making a cookbook with your kids is a fun activity that any family can do together and we are so excited to show you how we created ours.

If you know us, one thing that our family is big on is traditions created around the dinner table. Whether it is our pizza night on Fridays, our waffle tradition on Sundays, or the way we commemorate every little occasion in life, we somehow find a fun food tradition to surround the event. Today I want to showcase a way to truly document those food traditions by creating a family cookbook with your kids that can be a fun project to create together as well as a legacy of your family traditions to pass down to future generations.

Join me over on Kenmore today to learn how to create this beautiful family cookbook with your kids.

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How to Make Embroidery Thread Eggs

Easter is another fun season for family, food, and crafts that you can do together as a family. Embroidery thread eggs are an easy craft that yield impressive results that can be used as an Easter table centerpiece or can be strung with yarn to adorn a mantle or decorate a window. I want to show you how to create your own Embroidery Thread Easter Eggs for a fun decoration in your home.

To grab this EASY Easter Embroidery Thread Egg Tutorial, head on over to the Kenmore Genius Blog to learn how I made these with cute eggs with my kids!

I hope you love this tutorial half as much as I love our new decorations in our house!

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Freebie Friday: February 8, 2013 (A Podcast, Valentine’s Day Fun, & Take 5 Friday)

Happy Freebie Friday, everyone! We would like to thank Couponing 101 for assisting us with our freebies each week for loads of deals, savings, and freebies!

This week on MomAdvice I am sharing how to cook & prepare spaghetti squash for your recipes, I’m sharing 7 apps to get your family organized (be sure to check the comments on that one for more ideas), you can read an interview about our family and hear more about my latest book, the weekly notebook is filled with DIY food & craft projects, and our weekly list of 180 great giveaways to enter.

I had the pleasure of being interviewed for The Kitchen Hour podcast about my new book and our family’s own cooking traditions and celebrations. Meagan is a wonderful friend of mine that also runs The Happiest Mom site and I was so excited to get to talk to her in this episode of The Kitchen Hour podcast. I hope you can set aside some time to take a listen! We had so much fun!

This week you can catch me over at the Kenmore bog sharing some special dishes and activities our family does to celebrate the Valentine’s Day holiday. Check out a few of my favorite easy and affordable ideas for celebrating this season of love!

I am so honored to be featured in the latest issue of Project You Magazine. Check out this FREE magazine dedicated to loving yourself! I just know you will love this magazine as much as I do and I am so honored to be in it this month!

Don’t forget to visit our Facebook page today for our new Take Five Fridays feature. Each Friday on the MomAdvice Facebook Page, I will be sharing five meal ideas to add to your planners each week and you can share your own ideas for your week. Feel free to link to any of your family favorites, share recipes you plan to try, or what you have on your plans for the week! Feel free to use our free menu planner printable for your week!

I’m heading over there now to get this week’s meal plan up for you! I hope you have a wonderful weekend, friends, and enjoy all of these fabulous freebies!

 

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This Week’s Freebie Events

February 9th – 15th

9th - Barnes & Noble: Valentine’s Day Story Time, 11 am.

9th - Lakeshore Learning: Create a Chinese Dragon Puppet, 11 am – 3 pm.

9th - Lowe’s: Build a Wheel of Love, 10 am.

9th - Michael’s: Make Wilton Treat Pops, 1 pm – 3 pm.

9th – 14th – Pottery Barn: Valentine’s Day Letter Writing Station.

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Celebrating Earth Day as a Family

Looking for some fun ways to celebrate Earth Day with your family? This week I am over at the Kenmore Genius Blog to share some ways that our family has found to celebrate Earth Day and make it special for our kids. We hope you can join us and find a new way to celebrate with your family with these fun tips!

If you are in the Spring Cleaning mood, you will also find my article on Spring Cleaning Your Refrigerator.  Your refrigerator might be one of those appliances that may get overlooked, but it is one of the most important appliances in a home. Simple maintenance and cleaning procedures though can greatly extend the life & efficiency of your refrigerator and today I wanted to show how to keep your refrigerator running efficiently for your family with a few of these easy spring cleaning tips!

Today I wanted to share with you some tips for spring cleaning your refrigerator and keeping it running smoothly for your family.

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