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Children’s Music on a Budget

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Performing helps kids learn to conquer fear. Ashely’s husband over at Make It – Love It, made really cool looking cardboard guitars for their kids – much better looking than the shoebox guitars you usually see. Busy Bee Kids Crafts has a bunch of ideas, one of which is making paper plate tambourines.

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What a Wonderful Christmas!

Nicoles Nickels

Luckily the kids didn’t get up early on Christmas morning. My granddaughter laughed at her brother’s antics and then tried to consume the shiny wrapping paper. After too many presents from parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins and too many opening-present cookies, we took a break for some dinner.

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Bee Stung Butts, Freeze Dried Diapers and Other Hilarious Happenings of Poverty

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The family behind us, for instance, lived for years in their basement with their brood of kids (they ended up with around 15 I remember). Grandma put us kids to bed in the south bedroom when we stayed over at the farm. We had a coal stove at home, but my brother and my shared bedroom was just a few feet from the stove.

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Experience Based Graduation Gifts

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Examples: Your brother drives a long distance truck and can take on riders. Your Uncle is a manager at Walmart, have him take your graduate behind the scenes to explain the store systems and jobs. Rent a luxury yacht or car for the day and take them on a lets pretend voyage or sign them up for a rich kid camp.

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FREE Kindle Books: Blame it on Mistletoe, Deciding Fate & More

For the Mommas

But after suffering at the hands of her greedy Uncle, she is forced to take the only way out she can … marry a stranger out west. Lots of kids write letters to Santa. Lost and afraid, he learns to run from the hunters who prowl the darkness, their only pleasure chasing down kids like him. And killing them.

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Cardstore.com for Father’s Day and Win With the Pin It For Papa Contest

Nicoles Nickels

They have over 300 different Father’s Day cards so you be sue there is the perfect one for your father, grandfather, uncle or father figure! I guess you could say I am a daddy’s girl and my brother is a mama’s boy. Then, Cardstore will print, stamp and send the card for you! This is a sponsored post.

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Sunday Reads 10/23/16: Free Kindle eBooks

For the Mommas

Three brothers, Jackson, Mitch, and Garret Indigo are summoned back home to tiny Indigo Key by their mother. Their sister has gone missing along with her husband and two kids. Can Rachel bury her feelings and focus on facts long enough to bring the murderer to justice? Indigo Fire by Vickie McKeehan. Are the two cases related?