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Best Hot Chocolate Recipe For a Crowd

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Hands-down the BEST hot chocolate recipe for crowds! This most delicious hot chocolate recipe with REAL chocolate will please any party guest. Homemade hot chocolate made with chocolate chips is the most decadent drink you will ever make!

Best hot chocolate recipe made with real chocolate for crowds

If you have never made homemade hot chocolate with REAL CHOCOLATE, in a slow-cooker, you are missing out! This creamy hot chocolate is the most delicious warm drink you will ever have. I make this recipe several times during the holiday season. As a tradition, we always make this before we drive-around town admiring Christmas lights. It is also a staple at any of our Christmas gatherings. It is always a huge crowd-pleaser.

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The Best Educational Gifts for Kids

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The BEST EDUCATIONAL GIFTS FOR KIDS that will not only stimulate their minds, but also provide hours of fun play time.

Best Educational Toy Gifts for Kids

For Christmas and birthdays, we love to give our kiddos educational gifts. As home-schoolers, these gifts can be great learning resources to use everyday. The reason we LOVE educational gifts, is because they provide hours of activities that make learning fun. Whether you are a homeschooling family or not, giving your child an educational gift is a win-win situation. Below, we are sharing some of our favorite educational gifts for kids, some we own and some we have on our Christmas list. [Read more…]

All MOMS WORK: ENDING THE “MOM LABELS”

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All moms work

We have all heard the labels that mothers are given: SAHM, WAHM, Working Mom, Single Mom, PTA Mom, Homeschool Mom, Crunchy Mom, Breast-feeding Mom, Bottle-feeding Mom, Young Mom, Old Mom…I could go on and on, but you get the picture. As moms, we are labeled. Then comes all the “this label vs. this label.” When the whole truth of it is, we are just MOMS. If you are a mother, it doesn’t matter if you stay at home with your kids or work outside the home, YOU WORK! ALL MOMS WORK!

We don’t need the labels to prove what we do and don’t do. WE WORK HARD EVERYDAY. We are raising humans. What could be harder than that?  24/7 our mind is on our children. Our mental lists of our children’s meals, appts, school, projects, extra-curricular activities and more, is boundless. Our brains are constantly trying to keep up, while our bodies are doing all the physical demands that are needed to raise children. No one knows how hard we work, more than we do. [Read more…]