Fun Summer Reads For All Ages

By Trace Ferguson | June 9, 2025 | Blog
As a parent, you don’t want your kids to be bored over summer break. You also don’t want their boredom to lead to reading loss, which can happen when your child does not read for a few months. To help encourage your kids to read over their vacation, I’ve compiled a list of fun summer

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Preparing Your Family for Hurricane Season

By Christina Vila | June 2, 2025 | Happy Home
Preparing your family for hurricane season is here! Florida hurricane season runs from June 1 through the end of November, with the high season occurring in August and September. Before the Storm Bill Quinlan, a meteorologist on WCJB TV20’s weather team, insists that although North Central Florida may not see a lot of hurricane action,

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Need An Easy Craft? Try Felt Flowers!

By Amanda Roland | April 29, 2025 | Blog
Looking for an easy craft to try this week? Try felt flowers! This craft requires only felt, hot glue and scissors, perfect for your older kiddos. Add these felt flowers to wreaths, headbands, bouquets and picture frames. Get creative! *this craft requires scissors and hot glue, so supervise younger children*  Rosebuds Cut felt into large,

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Make Your Home Earth-Friendly for Earth Day!

By Giggle Magazine | April 21, 2025 | Happy Home
Earth Day is on April 22! Cleaning up the Earth can start right at home. Make your home earth friendly with some simple fixes that will cut down on your ecological footprint and help clean our motherland. Stop Buying Disposable Products The impact that we have on the environment, or our ecological footprint, can be

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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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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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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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How to Promote a Healthy Body Image for Your Teen

By Olivia Pitkenthly | March 11, 2025 | Ages , High school (16–18+)
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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