word filled wednesday ~ Oregon Coast

We are on the Oregon Coast this week - here's a taste of this gorgeous part of God's great creation..."Praise Him, you highest heavens and you waters above the skies. Let them praise the name of the Lord, for He commanded and they were created." Psalm 148:4,5

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Word Filled Wednesday ~ dragon fly

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day. Proverbs 4:18

Muffin Tin Monday ~ Copy Cat

For more participants in this fun carnival, visit Her Cup Overfloweth.Today's theme is Copy Cat - which means you are to copy another MTM you've seen and give them credit for it!
I liked an idea I read about on My Family My Forever when it was the theme of Numbers. So I copied her today! Thanks for this great idea!

I filled 6 muffin cups with things that we could use as a "trail mix"... so
#1 = dried cranberries
#2 = marshmallows
#3 = goldfish
#4 = cheerios
#5 = butterscotch chips
#6 = Kix (which my kids don't like really, won't get any more when we cross into the USA for groceries!)

I gave them each a baggie and then they first rolled the green dice which would equal which food they got. Then the big white dice determined how many of each they got to add to their trail mix.
Fun Fun! Have a great week!

Fingerprint Friday

There is a song by Steven Curtis Chapman that says:
I can see the fingerprints of God
When I look at you
I can see the fingerprints of God
And I know its true
You're a masterpiece
That all creation quietly applauds
And you're covered with the fingerprints of God

So look around you and see where YOU can see God's fingerprints. Is it in nature? Kids? Animals? Where do you see them?
I see them in my Son - who is being creative here by dressing himself up from a table full of heaping cloth for this purpose - he got right into it - I love it!

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Word Filled Wednesday ~ wind

"The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3:8

I remember talking to a co-worker at one point about believing in God - someone we cannot see - and so I compared it to wind in that we believe there is wind because we can feel it, we can see the effects of it yet we can't physically see wind either! There is a passage about it found in John 3:1-10... and for further reference (though I didn't 100% check out the doctrine to make sure it's Evangelical) is found here.

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Mystery Card

For a fun idea for Father's Day, try this mystery card as described in this video by Heavenly Homemaker ... pretty fun!


Thanks for this tutorial!!

WFMW - Disposable Cameras

Lately I have found so many disposable camera lying around the house. Don't know where they all came from, but what a great idea for the kids.

If you are going on a trip. Get them a little disposable camera (though if you are comfortable with them using your digital, that works too) to document the trip kind of like a scavenger hunt. There are 24 pictures and you could make a list of 24 different things you know you will see, like a cool building or an out of state/province/country licence plate. Kinda like THIS photo hunt I'm doing but on a much lower level. Then you can put them all in an album and have their perspective of the trip... like this:
Keeping the kids busy on road trips Works For Me!!


I participated in the Works For Me Wednesdays hosted by We are That Family ... click on this button to go and visit more posts with frugal ideas!

Muffin Tin Monday - no theme

There was no theme for today's Muffin Tin Monday - and since we were out this morning strawberry picking and grocery shopping, we got home in time to eat lunch but not enough time to come up with a lunch-muffin tin... so today it was a snack! Yum! I made some icing and added fruit, pretzels and sprinkles for dipping.
Again, my kids just love Muffin Tin Monday! I love it too!For more Muffin Tin Monday partipants, visit Her Cup Overfloweth!

Muffin Tin Monday ~ Numbers

My Kindergarten Son remembered that today should be "muffin tin Monday" - I had wished I had thought more about what we could do to make it fun but having had sick children in this house for the past 10 days, I didn't give it as much creativity as I would have hoped. My oldest son (kindergartener) pulled out a child-size table from my daughters room with chairs and declares it's a restaurant... a "Muffin Tin Restaurant". So again, this was very fun!

Here's what we did though:
12 - dried cranberries
11 - crackers
10 - crackers with cream cheese
9 - pieces of cheese
8 - slices of apple
7 - apples with peanut butter
6 - pretzels
5 - mini marshmallows
4 - blueberries
3 - cookies
2 - yogurts (one for his sister and one for him)
1 - glass of chocolate milk
*this food was shared a bit amongst my 3 children and myself.
Have a great week! And for more MTM ideas, visit Her Cup Overfloweth!

Duckling Rescue

Fingerprint Friday

There is a song by Steven Curtis Chapman that says:

I can see the fingerprints of God
When I look at you
I can see the fingerprints of God
And I know its true
You're a masterpiece
That all creation quietly applauds
And you're covered with the fingerprints of God

So look around you and see where YOU can see God's fingerprints. Is it in nature? Kids? Animals? Where do you see them?

12 little ducklings and their mommy

The pictures are mine, but here's an abbrieviated exerpt from our local paper:

"Twenty excited kids, wielding large sheets of construction paper, lined up with military precision to form a safety corridor.

Operation objective: Herd a mother duck and her 12 babies out of the Elementary’s enclosed courtyard, through the classroom, down the school halls, across a busy road, and into [the] Lake....

It’s not the first rescue operation undertaken at [the] Elementary. In 1995 the school successfully managed the same situation with a mother duck and her nine babies....

The mother and her downy babies waddled speedily through the classroom and down the halls. They navigated the human corridor across the parking lot.

Police Const. and his patrol car, lights flashing, held back traffic as the procession crossed [the] Road.

It was literally all downhill from the moment they hit [the] Park. Mama blazed a trail down the paths and through the high grass, babies stumbling and tumbling behind her...."

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Muffin Tin Monday ~ ABC's

Last week I somehow came across this meme, Muffin Tin Monday, and I thought it was such a great idea! It spurs on Moms to interact with their children, to create excitement and a learning experience into meal time (IMO)... my kids (ages 5, 3 and 2) were just buzzing when they saw me trying to think up some ABC's for their muffin-tin lunch! They already know that next week is a Numbers theme and so we've conversed about what it could look like!

Thanks Michelle for this idea... please visit her at "Her Cup Overfloweth" here:Here is what we came up with on a wim...
A is for apples and alphabet pasta
B is for banana
C is for cranberries (dried) and carrots
That was fun! I'm already thinking it would be great to continue this for as many Mondays as possible and even into September for my Son who will be in grade 1 and eating lunch at school every Monday! How fun would that be?!

Have a great day!