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Carnival of Family Life #28 – Thanksgiving thoughts and feelings

kellys — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:36:54 +0000

Once again, Thrifty Mommy is excited to host a Carnival of Family Life. This week’s theme is Thanksgiving. A lot of you have submitted your favorite Thanksgiving posts and I hope I didn’t miss anyone. I love this time of year. I just want it to be about the right things. Thanksgiving should be about family and taking the time to say thank you for all the great things you have been blessed with. Most of us have a roof over our heads, a smile on our face (at some point during the day), and food to eat. That makes us more wealthy than most of the world. So enjoy perusing the posts and topics here and I hope you can find something that will help your Thanksgiving holiday be extra special.

Food:

Anne Marie has a great vegan pumkin pie recipe for all to enjoy.

I had to include the sunbathing turkey from Simply dumb! I couldn’t resist.

Revka at The Porch Light has a wonderful corn casserole recipe to share.Mommy the maid gives us her entire Thankgiving menu to gain ideas from. Looks delicious to me.

Our own, Kailani, gives us 12 reasons to be glad the Thanksgiving turkey burned. Now that I could use

Holiday thoughts:

Pass the Torch lets you in on what she is thankful for. There are also adorable pictures of recess and why she is thankful for homeschooling.

Gayla at Mom Gadget shows us her favorite Thanksgiving picture. How adorable!

Super Mom shares her thanksgiving reflections with class!

Samantha from Double twin trouble shares her stress over her very first thanksgiving and reminds us that it is about family and not the turkey or pie. So true!

GNMParents reminds us of the difference between being thankful and being grateful. I really like this one.

Thrifty Mommy wants to know why Christmas has already come when we haven’t even cooked the Thanksgiving turkey yet!

Muse at Me-ander tells of how her Thanksgivings were a little different from the norm. Quite interesting.

Jaime Anne gives a touching portrait of her mother and reminds us all to tell our parents thank you for all they have done for us.

Carolyn from SharpBrains has a great way to relieve the stress of the holidays while reminding us of why it is so important to eat a variety of good vegetables.

Karen from Miscmum in Australia wants to offer us a fresh view on Thanksgiving from an international perspective.

Holly form Holly’s Corner gives us a touching story of her first adoption and how her blessigns just keep coming.

Christina from Are we there yet? has a hysterical story of the missing turkey. Remind anybody of a certain movie, A Christmas Story, and a Red Rider Bee-Bee gun?

Decorating and kids:

Kerri from Play Library shows us her kids’ adorable Thanksgiving Turkey placemats. Check them out and maybe you too can have a turkey gobble up your plate next year:)

Lori over at Fun Play Dates has some sweet ideas as to how to keep your kids active and happy with fun games for the holidays.

Matt Smith has a great decorating idea for the romantic in your life. We will definitely do this next year!

Mike at Career and Kids has some great ideas for easy Thanksgiving crafts to do with your kids.

More4kids reminds us to instill a sense of thankfulness in our kids. It is taught and learned by example, not picked up on accidentally.

A readable feast gives us a great list of children’s books for Thanksgiving.

Scribbit has adorable turkeys from pine cones that would beautify any Thanksgiving table setting.

Lisa at Parenting Toddlers reminds us of the classic toddler turkey hand. I love these.

I hope I didn’t miss anybody. If I did, please let me know and I will make sure I include it. Thank you so much for all your input and I hope you enjoy everyone’s sotries. They are touching and just what the doctor ordered for Thanksgiving. Now go and eat way too much turkey and then pass out on the couch.

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Blog Carnival of Healthy and Fit Families

Karen Weideman — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:39:58 +0000

Kate at “Babylune” had a great idea for helping us all remember to stay fit and healthy. Each week someone will be hosting the Healthy & Fit Family blog carnival. Kate has offered to let me host next week’s carnival. (Thanks Kate.)

Healthy and Fit Family is a weekly update from bloggers who are working to improve the health and fitness of their entire families. This carnival is to share your posts about the experience of leading (or starting to lead) an active life as a family.

Click here to submit something for next week. Only 10 posts will be accepted each week. The deadline for submissions is Sunday, November 19th at midnight.

Here are some links to the past 3 Healthy & Fit Family Carnivals.

The First Healthy & Fit Family Carnival

The Second Healthy & Fit Family Carnival

The Third Healthy & Fit Family Carnival

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b5 Family Mission Statements

Karen Weideman — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:30:13 +0000

Anna Farmery at Widows Quest hosted a blog carnival sharing other b5 blog mission statements. Be sure to click over to see what other blogs b5 has for you.

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The carnival of family life – Thanksgiving style

kellys — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:37:04 +0000

Welcome back to another Carnival announcement. It’s Thanksgiving time again and Thrifty Mommy is proud and totally excited to host the Carnival of Family Life next week. So kick back, relax, and share your favorite Thanksgiving recipe or decorating tip. Also, let us know what you are thankful for. I love sharing the best recipes in the world with all my friends. So shoot me an email and I’ll make sure we include you in the Thanksgiving roundup for the Carnival of Family Life.

Thanks for the opportunity, Kailani, to host a carnival during a special time of year.

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From one Frugal carnival to another.

kellys — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:11:57 +0000

Speaking of carnivals, Dawn at Frugal for life has a great one going right now on frugal living. I hate to say it but I missed the submission deadline so Let me just tell you that the comment on plastic bags by Papabear got me to thinking. He is right. Whether it is the plastic bag that you use for fruits and veggies or the Wal-Mart bags that multiply without being asked, we should never have to buy something to help keep the smell of a dirty diaper away. Just drop it in the bag, twist it, and flip inside out so you have it double wrapped. You will never smell a thing as long as you get the bag to a trash can within 24 hrs. This way, you don’t just throw them out and you can get 2 uses for the price of none. Gotta like those odds.

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Thrifty Mommy to host a frugal blogging Carnival

kellys — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:02:03 +0000

I love sharing frugal ideas that can enrich all of us. But there are more of you out there that have just as many good ideas as I do. Most of the time they are better. Now, Thrifty Mommy is going to host a blogging Carnival sponsored by Joyride through Insanity dealing with all kinds of frugal tips on saving time and money during the parenting years. I am so excited because I get to share all of your great ideas with all of you. The deadline is August 13^th so just post on whatever you want dealing with the topic and email it to me at kellys@b5media and we will have a great thrifty vacation at the frugal carnival!

I look forward to reading all that you guys and gals have to offer.

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Summer antics from my DD.

kellys — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:34:10 +0000

My little girl is only 15 months but this was the first summer that she has been able to play outside. When she was first born, her grandpa Charlie would take her outside and she would be happy. Still true to form, she loves to go outside. She will stand by the kitchen door and jabber about going outside. I even paid $20 for a pool from Wal-Mart for her to play in. Since I purchased it, though, it has either rained or been too cool to play. Finally this weekend she will get to play in it. I think she would live outside if I would let her. She is so funny.

My favorite memory so far this year is in the front yard. We work with teenagers at our church and I had several over one Saturday night. She got out there and was playing with them. She would get so excited that she would laugh and fall down without even being touched all while wearing one of the girls’ sunglasses. She had us all rolling.

Want to read more summer antics? Visit Silicone Valley Moms blog on July 18^th and visit the mommy carnival.

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