StoryDollars: Keep Your Kids Creating This Summer
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StoryDollars: Keep Your Kids Creating This Summer

I’m always trying to think of new ways to keep my kids using their brains during the summer (while keeping it fun—it is summer after all!). I’ve been thinking about story a lot lately, and it’s inspired our summer creative challenge: Storydollars. I thought some of you might enjoy doing it too, so we put…

HEART Goals Exercise: 1/5/10
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HEART Goals Exercise: 1/5/10

Gain perspective while setting goals for the next year and beyond! If you’ve been around here for a while, you may already know about my personal goal-setting system, HEART Goals. It’s a formula for setting balanced goals and a system for making decisions, prioritizing tasks, and taking action toward the vision you want for your life. When I launched my…

Meal Planning with HEART
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Meal Planning with HEART

I’ve been filtering my life through the HEART framework for a decade, and I’ve gotten everything pretty well sorted into it’s own category. However, meal-planning is one of those things that can fall into two categories on the HEART framework: Help Yourself and Resources & Responsibilities.  Help Yourself Nutrition is one of the checkpoints in…

“Never Again Ask What’s for Dinner” Meal Plan Update
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“Never Again Ask What’s for Dinner” Meal Plan Update

Anyone who’s ever been in charge of figuring out what to feed their family has felt dread (or rage?) when the question is asked: “What’s for dinner?” Back in 2019, I couldn’t take hearing the question every day anymore, so I came up with the “Never Again Ask What’s for Dinner” Weekly Meal Plan. The…

Not-Your-Mama’s Green Beans (Recipe Download)
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Not-Your-Mama’s Green Beans (Recipe Download)

Move over, Green Bean Casserole. There’s a new girl in town, and her name isn’t French fried onion strings. It’s cheese and bacon. And she’s here to tell you how green beans are really done. Don’t get me wrong, I love a can of cream of mushroom soup, and French fried onion strings are delish….