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Mother’s Day | Meaningful Gifts with Your Photos
The most meaningful gifts that you can give your mom for Mother’s Day are personalized gifts. When you were little and you made your mom a necklace out of yarn and colored pasta her face would light up. That was because it was made by you specifically for her. She knew that it was made with thought and love. As adults, giving your mother a noodle necklace for Mother’s Day might not go over as well… Luckily, there are companies like Snapfish that allow you to easily create personalized, meaningful gifts for any occasion. I first started using Snapfish when I created our profile books for our adoptions. I fell…
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Easy Candy Recipe | Jell-O Candy
My toddler and I are OBSESSED with candy! It’s safe to say that we spend a minor fortune on candy at our house. For example, when at the pediatrician, my toddler looked at the food pyramid and questioned why there wasn’t a candy category… So one day, we were both wanting candy and somehow didn’t have any at home. We had to come up with something! That was the day that I created this easy candy recipe! I started with looking up different candy or gummy recipes and I found this one made with Jell-O but it also required gelatin. I didn’t have any plain gelatin. I decided to go…
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Bunny Footprint Template | Easter Fun for Kids
Having Easter bunny footprints throughout the house is a tradition from my childhood. Now that I have children I want to share with them the joy and excitement of finding Easter bunny footprints in the house on Easter morning! So to make it easier on myself, I made an Easter bunny footprints template to make the tracks with and I want to share it with you! If you haven’t heard of having Easter bunny footprints in your house before now, here is how they started in our family: We would go to my grandmother’s house every year for Easter when I was growing up. Easter morning was always so exciting…
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Easy Easter Side Dishes | All You Need is a Microwave
The holidays can be stressful! Especially if you are doing the cooking! With most of staying home this year for Easter, it may be the first time you have to cook Easter dinner! Take the stress out of dinner prep with these seven easy Easter side dishes! All you need for these amazingly easy Easter side dishes is a microwave! Save yourself some time and the mess of cooking without sacrificing any flavor! These easy side dishes never fail to impress! All you’ll need is a microwave, a microwavable casserole dish with a lid and a few other staple kitchen tools (like a bowl and potato peeler) and you are…
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Toddler Truffles | Easy Peanut Butter Truffle Recipe
If you have been a follower of Struggle Shuttle, then you already know that I have a picky toddler! If it’s not fries, candy or cake she probably won’t eat it. She loves her sweets! For example, she was perplexed the last time we were at the pediatrician as to why there wasn’t candy on the food pyramid! If you have my article, Nutrition for Kids | 5 Nutrition Sneaking Hacks then you know that I am always looking for ways to sneak nutrition into my daughters’ diet! I recently came up with this peanut butter truffle recipe that is packed with protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals! My daughter loves…
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What is Brachycephaly?
My youngest daughter was recently diagnosed with severe Brachycephaly. When our pediatrician first suggested that we go to see a specialist for an official diagnoses I had questions. What is Brachycephaly? What causes it? Is it my fault? How can I fix it? At my daughters‘ two month check up our pediatrician expressed concern about the flatness of the back of my daughters’ head. She advised us to keep her off of it as much as possible and she would reevaluate it at her four month appointment. My daughter started rolling over at 2 months 6 days old. She started sleeping on her stomach shortly after she mastered rolling. Between…
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Best Books to Read on Libby While Rocking Your Baby
As moms we spend a lot of time rocking our babies to sleep. I don’t know about you but I find those middle-of-the-night, hour+ long, rocking sessions to be the most difficult to get up for and STAY up during! I found myself having to scroll through Facebook on my phone just to keep myself awake! That was until I discovered e-books, audiobooks and Libby. Now I am actually excited when the baby wakes in the middle of the night because I get to see what happens next in the book I am reading! So the books that I read have to be page turners! So far, this is my…
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How to Make an Adoption Profile Book
Creating an adoption profile book is one of the last things that you will have to do before final approval during the adoption process. An adoption profile book is a collection of text and pictures that represent you and your current family. This is the only thing that a prospective birth mother may see before choosing prospective adoptive families for her child. It can be extremely stressful to try to effectively capture everything about who you are in one book. It’s a lot of pressure! That is why I wanted to develop this step-by-step guide to creating a strong adoption profile book. Before you start writing your adoption profile book:…
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