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Chevron M&M Cake

May 19, 2013 by jodidurr Leave a Comment

If you've been here for a while, you will know I love to do cakes, and I generally do fondant cakes. However, it was time for time for my daughter's carnival at her school and the infamous "Cake Walk." I wasn't convinced that kids would be all that impressed with a fancy fondant cake. I tried to consider what would be appealing to kids. No brainer - right? Candy. I thought it would be fun to come up with some sort of design with M&M's. I considered doing a paisley-type design. I considered … [Continue reading...]

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Teaching Kids to say, “I’m Sorry”

May 18, 2013 by jodidurr Leave a Comment

Teaching kids to say sorry is such an important skill. They need to learn how to make relationships right again. I have done another brief post about apologies, but I feel like a follow-up is needed. I also did a post about being willing to model apologies with your children. That is essential in teaching. We have had some real issues with our oldest lately. The picture above is not staged. This was an actual reaction to me snapping a picture during her AWANA ceremony. She has shown … [Continue reading...]

Filed Under: Parenting Tips Tagged With: apologies, I'm sorry, kids, parenting, teaching

Teaching Generosity with Odwalla and Champions for Kids Campaign

May 17, 2013 by jodidurr 2 Comments

I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This content has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias®, Odwalla, and Champions for Kids #cbias #SocialFabric. All experiences and opinions are my own, and I was delighted to take a part in a campaign to help people become [...]

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Filed Under: Activities Tagged With: champions for kids, donating, food bank, Generosity, Odwalla, simple service project, summer project, Walmart

IPad or Surface Giveaway

May 16, 2013 by jodidurr 2 Comments

Welcome to the May iPad/Surface Giveaway! An awesome group of bloggers have teamed up to bring you this equally awesome giveaway for an iPad (RV: $499) or a Microsoft Surface Tablet (RV: $499)! Winner’s choice! Hosted by Bay Area Mommy, The WiC Project, Life’s Cheap Thrills, Simply Stacie, Spaceships and Laser Beams, Capri’s Coupons, and 3 [...]

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DIY Garden Markers

May 15, 2013 by jodidurr 7 Comments

I wanted to come up with some great garden markers for the garden we planted this past weekend. I looked online for some ideas, but I didn’t feel inspired. I rummaged through the garage to find something that might inspire me in terms of materials. I was at a loss browsing through things there. Finally, [...]

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Filed Under: Crafts Tagged With: DIY, garden, gardening, kids, markers, signs

Mombo Nursing Pillow – A Mom’s Review and Giveaway

May 13, 2013 by jodidurr 17 Comments

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This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Comfort and Harmony for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. I am so excited to bring you another great giveaway today. I have recently been introduced to the Comfort & Harmony mombo nursing pillow. Oh, I wish I had this nursing pillow when I was [...]

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Stop & Go Game – Running Errands with Kids

May 13, 2013 by jodidurr 2 Comments

The “Stop & Go” game is a simple game I made up to help when running errands with kids. There are a few challenges when being out with kids. One of them is that they move quickly and might be hard to keep wrangled. The opposing problem is the slow speed of children. I think [...]

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Filed Under: Activities, Parenting Tips Tagged With: Creative, errands, games, ideas, kids, parenting, tips

Work Crew at Malibu – a Young Life Camp

May 12, 2013 by jodidurr Leave a Comment

Have you ever heard of Camp Malibu in Canada? It is a Young Life camp built right in the middle of pure beauty. Most of this blog is sharing ideas that inspire parenting. However, part of this blog is just sharing a bit more about me and our life. I am a mom and trying [...]

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Mile High Manners – Teaching Kids to be Courteous

May 11, 2013 by jodidurr Leave a Comment

Courteous “Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous.” – 1 Peter 3:8 It is the courteous week here at Meaningful Mama. I hope you are aware of my character development series, and if you aren’t please take time to poke around under the character development tab. I consider this series as [...]

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Filed Under: Character Development Tagged With: Bible, Courteous, kids, manners, polite, teaching

Panang Curry Recipe

May 9, 2013 by jodidurr Leave a Comment

We love Thai food around our house. We have been looking for the perfect Panang curry recipe, and when I never found it, I decided to make my own. I think we nailed it. You’ll have to try it and see what you think. It has been a long search. I was trying the five [...]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: authentic, Panang curry, Recipe, restaurant, Thai

Confessions of a Meaningful Mama

May 8, 2013 by jodidurr 40 Comments

1. The kids don’t bathe nearly as much as they should. Neither do I. 2. The laundry often sits way too long in the laundry room. 3. My last tear filled moment was about how I feel like I am running in a hamster wheel when it comes to keeping this house in order. I [...]

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Teaching Music to Kids – A Lesson in Rhythm

May 7, 2013 by jodidurr 2 Comments

Music is an important thing to teach your children. Here is a lesson in teaching your children about basic rhythm. It is recommended to get your children in 10 years of music lessons as it aids in brain development. You can check out my post on the subject. When I first got married and moved [...]