Once your kids are in high school or beyond, it’s time to switch gears and make sure they know how to be good housemates. If you’ve included them in housekeeping, you’re set, but let’s doublecheck what you need to know to be a good roommate. We’ve got five kids at home, four of them legal…
Wondering how to work family time into your regular routine? It can be hard to make a family fun night happen, especially as your kids get bigger. Here are some strategies that work for us with teens and young adults. It probably started with food. All things with me usually do. Since I was already…
Hosting a game night for your teenage and college kids’ friends can be a great way to support your child as well as get to know their friends. Here’s a non-intrusive, but constructive way to host a young adult game night. When we first starting hosting a game night for our kids’ friends, I didn’t…
When you can’t have everyone together for 1st Christmas, it’s good to plan 2nd Christmas. Here’s how we plan an alternate Christmas celebration when our family can’t all be together on the official day. Our Christmas history with adult children is still in the making. With one son married and another establishing his career and…
Sharing bathrooms in a big family can be tricky business. You’ve seen the movies! Here’s how we’re making it work for us. Sharing a bathroom is a good problem to have in a world where some still don’t have clean running water. Here’s our solution for sharing bathrooms in a big family. When we first…
Sunday Dinner is an old tradition that our family is bringing back. Here are the steps I take each week to prepare a special Sunday Dinner for my family as well as 20 Sunday Dinner recipes that are sure to become favorites at your table. Often times the old ways are the best ways. I…
Some things you learn by doing, some things you’re blessed with parents to teach you. If you’re me, you learn by reading, then doing, then making your kids read the book! I don’t know about you, but there’s a lot about adulthood that I was not prepared for. I’d had an excellent public school education,…