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Spinach and Strawberry Chicken Salad Bowl

Strawberry season is the best time of the year to add strawberries to every single meal...every...single...meal. Amiright? Wanna know a secret way to get kids to eat salads? Add fruit to the salad. Yep, it is that easy. I love adding lots of fruit to the salads our family eats. In fact, the first time my kids actually enjoyed a salad it had blueberries and strawberries in it. They didn't even care that they were eating spinach, as long as they got to eat the fruit. Seriously. So, in the ...

MEGA List of Ways to Play with Marbles - Take a simple bag of marbles and build, create, learn and play. Fun activities and art projects for kids of all ages | Kid Activities | Simple Play Ideas for Kids |

Sometimes the simplest games are the absolute best games. Right?! If you have a bag of marbles then you have an open invitation to play, engineer and create so many different amazing things. After making our own marble game we started looking into all the fun things that folks are playing with simple marbles. We have put together a MEGA list of marble games for kids. What are you waiting for? Go and round up a bag of marbles to play with today. MEGA list of Ways to Play with Marbles ...

The Best Puberty Books for Girls - A collection of books to share with your daughter about growing up. These books cover all the topics. A great resource for parents, teachers, tweens and teens. | Books for Girls | Books for Older Girls | Puberty Resources |

This book list has been brewing in my mind for a long while now. If you are anything like me, when you have questions about a particular subject, you reach for a good book. for your convenience, this post contains affiliate links A few years ago I was in one of those unknown situations. I knew my daughters were growing and I knew that I needed to figure out an easy way to help them understand what was happening to their minds and bodies - FYI puberty isn't only a physical thing. So, I did some ...