Today may seem like a normal Saturday, but it’s not! Today is Family Volunteer Day! I posted about what our family does to give back to our community here. Family Volunteer Day is a day of service that celebrates the power of families that work together and help their communities. Family Volunteer Day is held the Saturday before Thanksgiving to really help kick off the holiday spirit of giving. This year we did some volunteering before Family Volunteer day and today we decided to keep our volunteering really close to home and help out our community directly. We went around the neighborhood cleaning up neighbor’s yards. We have some elderly neighbors that we know it’s too difficult for them to get out and clean up their yard of all the trash that blows through.

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Nighttime can be a difficult time for any parent. Getting kids to sleep through the night can be one heck of a challenge and sometimes no matter what tricks or tips you try nothing will work. I recently came across the perfect solution though and I am excited to introduce you to the Tick Tock Turtle from Emagine A. Routine is a huge key in getting kids to be on a schedule and The Tick Tock Turtle knows just what to do to help this process.

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No other activity has brought our family closer together than volunteering and giving back to our community. Even when my kids were really young I knew I wanted them understand the value and purpose to giving back and volunteering. I don’t always have a set schedule on when or where we volunteer and some of the most needed opportunities come up out of the blue. I am always on the lookout though for causes our family can contribute to. That is why I am really excited about Family Volunteer day!

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I have always loved to sing; ever since I was a little girl it was one of my favorite things to do. On my first trip to Japan I discovered karaoke and I was hooked. Being able to belt out all my favorite songs was so much fun. Now that I have kids they love to join in the fun as well. I knew as a family we needed to step up our karaoke game and get a machine we could all really love and have fun with. I recently came across the Singing Machine Studio and it’s so amazing! This is an All-In-One Entertaining System with Auto-Tune pitch correction software and Professional Vocal Processing Effects.

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“Travel with kids”, sometimes the very words can make a parent panic. It can be hard enough to travel with two people, but throw kids into the mix, and things get complicated. Well… that’s my life. We travel all the time with our two kids in tow. While I feel they are well-behaved kids and I love traveling with them, they inevitably complicate some parts of travel. I am always making sure they are fed, happy, and comfortable. This isn’t always easy, and I am always on the lookout for tools that can help me do the job even better and easier.

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