I hope that you all had a great weekend, and a good holiday weekend for all of you celebrating Labor Day. I usually like to feature a few posts from the Carnival of Family Life when mentioning it, but we’ve just come back from a weekend Road Trip and I’m wiped out! So, feel free to head on over to Down with the Kids for this week’s edition. I’ll join you as soon as I catch a few zzzzzzzz’s.

To participate in next week’s carnival, head on over here.

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This week’s Carnival of Family Life is being hosted at Write from Karen. It brought in a record 76 entries! Here are a few posts that I thought you might appreciate.

Check out Babies and the Sun at Let’s Talk Babies for some tips on keeping the littlest of the family members safe and sound during the hot summer days.

Expat Chef hypothesizes on The Incredible Shrinking Brain posted at The Expatriate’s Kitchen. I could add a few to that list as well!

Get good and dirty in Good Clean Dirt posted at The Common Room. A good muddiness is one of the fine pleasures in life.

To participate in next week’s carnival, submit a family-related post here.

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Hey all! The Carnival of Family Life is posted now at An Island Life. I haven’t had time to peruse all of the great posts, but will do that soon and feature a few out here. In the meantime, you can look for a few favorites yourself!

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The Carnival of Family Life is being hosted this week at The So Called Me. Here are a few of posts that I enjoyed. If you’d like to participate in next week’s carnival, head on over here to submit a post!

Tricia presents I’ve Created a Garage Sale Monster! posted at Blogging Away Debt. I’ve gotta get my kids on this!

Pickel presents Yes, I have “That” child posted at My Two Boys.

Linsey Knerl presents Parenting is Ridiculous…. posted at Facipiers and Stinky Toes.

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This week’s Carnival of Family Life is hosted at Be a Good Mom. Here are a few posts that might be of interest. If you’d like to participate in next week’s carnival, submit a family-related post here.

What to do if Your Childs Identity is Stolen? posted at More4kids. Yikes. I’d thought about this one before, but hadn’t realized how prevalent it was. Our kids are most definitely growing up in a world so different from the one we knew.

50 Easy Kids Activities & Games for Summer posted at LittleMummy.Com. Lots of fantastic ideas there. I’m thinking sock puppets as the answer to tomorrow’s, “What are we going to do today, Mom?!?!” question.

Thursday Thirteen #54: Summer Activities posted at arewethereyetmom.com. More fun summer activities! And you might get your car clean, too.

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This week’s Carnival of Family Life is being hosted at The Expatriate’s Kitchen. Here are a few of the posts that caught my eye.

Check out the post My Brother is Awesome at Pediascribe. This is how we all hope our arguing little ones will relate to each other one day!

Leisa presents Goldilocks and the sneaky sleep posted at downwiththekids.net. I so remember the exhaustion, and can’t say I’d be above it, either!

Activist mommy presents Fun, without all the fancy packaging. I enjoyed this post for several reasons, not the least of which is that I find all the crazy packaging SOOOOO annoying!!!! But there are good tips there for finding new homes for toys with a lot of life left in them. I’ll have to keep checking it out as our family is trying to change to more eco-friendly living!

If you’d like to participate in next week’s Carnival of Family Life, head on over here to submit a family-related post!

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This week’s Carnival of Family Life is hosted by Erica of Little Mummy. Here are a few posts that I’ve appreciated!

HowToMe shares an easy do-it-yourself project to help keep little (or big!) fingers from getting pinched.

Live the Power shares a favorite book that was one of Bald Man’s favorites as well!

The Lost and Profound had me giggling and squirming in the same post.

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How’d that happen?!? For the first time in what feels like almost a year (and probably is), I totally forgot to submit a post to the Carnival of Family Life!!! Both for this blog and Marriage Actually. Craziness. And that’s what it was, actually, a crazy weekend full of dance recitals, bonfires, and other fun stuff. Ah well. It was hosted this week at Everyday Disasters.

I’m still happy to check it out and feature the following posts:

The Scratching Post’s parable reminded me of a song that my friend likes to sing with my kids. The one about a crocodile and the monkeys? Anyone out there know it?

I like this bit of practical parenting shared by Suzanne at Adventures in Daily Living. I’m trying to think of all of the ways I can use the basic idea here at home!

Walk a mile in the shoes of Mommn’ It Up. You’ll need to clean yours, too.

If you’d like to submit a post for next week’s carnival, head over here. I’ll try to remember, too!

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This week’s Carnival of Family Life is hosted at The So Called Me. As I’ve said before, there really are too many for me to read them all! But I try to read some from different authors and highlight a few that I enjoy. Here are this week’s highlights:

Rebecca presents Fun with Shaving Cream posted at Be A Good Mom. One of our kid’s Sunday School teachers did this. The kids had a blast!!

Dana presents Observing your own backyard posted at Backyard Birding. I love these types of moments with the kids!

Lori Cooperstein presents Create a Family Coat of Arms for a Unique Father?s Day Gift posted at Fun Play Dates. What a fun idea! I think the kids could really get into this, and it takes their thoughts beyond Dad as “just a parent” and it makes them think of the personal traits and likes of their Dad (or whoever else might be the recipient).

To participate in next week’s carnival, head on over here to the submission form!

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The Carnival of Family Life is posted this week at MamaBlogga. Head on over and enjoy the rides! Here are a few that I enjoyed this week:

Linsey B. Knerl presents You Wouldn’t Even Recognize Me… posted at Facipiers and Stinky Toes. Who knew who we’d become?

Super Saver presents Free Children’s Books From Barnes & Nobles posted at My Wealth Builder. I’ve gotta get on this one!

jldude presents On Fatherhood posted at My Search for Meaning, Money…. A touching tribute.

Join us for next week’s carnival by sharing a family-related post here.

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