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Summer Days + a Bedtime Routine Checklist Printable

The end of the school year has arrived for us, along with beautiful longer summer days. We are settling into a new routine that includes a later bedtime for the boys, but I still need my evenings to myself. I created a checklist for them to follow in the evenings to get them to bed […]

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More Ice Skating

The boys love to ice skate, and we are definitely going to continue their ice skating lessons during the summer. They each have their own awesome instructor, young ladies with lots of patience with wee ones who make the ice skating lessons fun for them, and I have so much fun watching them skate around […]

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For The Love Of Soccer

Soccer is a great sport, one that I grew up seeing the men in my family enjoying with lifelong friends on weekends at local parks. It kept them young and healthy for years, and it’s fun, so I wanted my sons to try soccer out when they were old enough. I started with my first […]

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Bike Rides + Scooters

Spring has finally arrived here in New York. I think. The weather seems to be on a delayed scheduled, with winter weather not hitting us until the end of January, and the spring very, very tentatively dipping its toe in the pond. We had some warm days that reached 80 degrees, and forecasts of days […]

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A Cool Sport For The Boys

My older son asked me if he could learn to ice skate. While I never want to pressure either of the boys to do anything, my husband and I did hope they’d show interest in something (or a few somethings), so this was great news! We decided they’d guide their own recreational activities by expressing […]

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