bento box

Easy Bento Box Combinations to Make Lunchtime Fun!

By Giggle Magazine | April 23, 2025 | Forks & Spoons
Bento lunches are some of our favorites! You can mix and match small portions of healthy snacks and options to give your kiddos bento box combinations that are well-balanced and yummy, making them the hit of the lunch room. Related articles: 22 Medicine Cabinet Must-Haves Get The Recipe For Carmen’s Quick Mexican Chicken
compost bin

Make a DIY Compost Bin to Help The Earth!

By Amanda Roland | April 21, 2025 | Articles , Guides , Home Life , Local Fun
Composting is one of the easiest things that a family can do to help the environment. When you compost, you help reduce the amount of organic waste in our landfills, which according to Bay Area Composting, emits methane, a potent greenhouse gas into our atmosphere. Your compost is not only helping our environment, but also

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pallet garden

DIY Herb Pallet Garden

By Nicole Irving, Publisher and Editor-In-Chief | April 15, 2025 | uncategorized
As the days grow longer and the afternoon becomes perfect for outdoor time, revisiting your garden and sprucing up the backyard fall into the natural order of summer weekends. Repurposing, up-cycling and turning the vintage into the ultra awesome are all the rage these days, so why not take that theme to the garden with

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grilled cheese

Jazz Up Your Grilled Cheese For Grilled Cheese Day!

By Colleen McTiernan | April 15, 2025 | uncategorized
Friday, April 12 is National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day! Instead of celebrating with your basic go-to grilled cheese, try one of these recipes for a twist on a classic! Guacamole Grilled Cheese Servings: 4 For the guacamole 3 avocadoes, peeled and pitted 1 ½ teaspoons salt 1 lime, juiced 5 cloves garlic, minced 2 small

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decluttering

How to Create a Healthy Home Environment

By Danielle Pastula | March 27, 2025 | Happy Home , Health
From our children’s success at school, to how we perform at work, to how happy we are in our relationships with family and friends, many things can be linked back to our healthy home environment. One way to adjust how we look at our home is to break down our activities and improvements into the

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Try These At-Home Listening Activities

By Rebecca Vitkus | March 20, 2025 | Conception 2 College , Early Years
While listening skills are practiced every day in preschool and kindergarten classrooms, it is up to parents to continue building those listening skills at home. Former kindergarten teacher Ilene Vitkus shared some of her classroom tactics to make at-home listening activities both fun and beneficial. Draw This! Bring out the crayons and paper and instruct

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healthy body image

How to Promote a Healthy Body Image for Your Teen

By Olivia Pitkenthly | March 11, 2025 | Conception 2 College , Teens
In 2010, the Obama administration launched the Let’s Move! campaign and a task force on childhood obesity to bring awareness to unhealthy patterns of eating and sedentary lifestyles. Since then, schools have provided healthier food choices, started growing fruits and vegetables in their own gardens and are fighting for more recess time. While schools are

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picking a stroller

Tips For Picking the Stroller That is Best for You!

By Nicole Irving, Publisher and Editor-In-Chief | March 10, 2025 | Expecting
When I had my first baby shower, I remember opening the big clunky box that held my first stroller. It was a Graco combination, where the car seat fit right into the stroller, so you didn’t have to wake a sleeping baby to put him into the stroller. GENIUS! Fast forward 17 months and we

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Updated School Calendar

ACPS Posts Updated School Calendar

By Nicole Irving, Publisher and Editor-In-Chief | February 23, 2025 | Blog
Today, Alachua County Public Schools released the calendar for the 2025-2026 school year. That means time to updated those family calendars with all the important school dates and vacations times. This updated calendar reflects the current start date for all Alachua County Public Schools (ACPS) which will be Monday, August 11. The last day of

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Valentine's Day Books

Our 14 Favorite Valentine’s Day Books

By Elayza Gonzalez | February 4, 2025 | Blog
Roses are red, violets are blue, these Valentine's day books are great, so we’re sharing them with you! Valentine’s Day is around the corner, so why not celebrate by cuddling up with your kids and reading a sweet story that will teach them about love and kindness? These are 14 of our favorite books you

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