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There we are, friends … this year’s Home for the Holidays week is finished. Thank you all so much for joining in with us for the fun!
The other Simple Living Media editors and I started planning this months ago and I think this year might have been our best year ever!
But, enough of that. Let’s get to the winners, shall we?
Today is the last day of our annual Home for the Holidays week! I’m a little sad to wind down the week, but we’ve given you some great gift ideas and suggestions that you can take into your holiday celebrations this year.
The final gift I’m highlighting for your holidays is the dual bag-in-bag from inviteL
I have a dual bag-in-bag in apple green and I love it! It is one of those simple, yet genius ideas: a bag that you load up with the gear you use on a daily basis but that you can easily move back and forth between your larger totes, diaper bags, and carry-alls without having to do the whole item by item shuffle and re-sort routine.
Just pick the bag-in-bag up by the handles and take it from one tote to the next. Easy! This is perfect for a parent on the go, but you don’t have to be a parent to appreciate the convenience of only having to pack a bag once.
It is cushioned, soft, and features all kinds of convenient elements like mesh pockets, zippered pockets, and snaps that let you trim the design if you need to. I can see why this bag is one of invite.L ‘s international best sellers.
Today for our Home for the Holidays celebration each Simple Living Media channel is featuring some of our favorite links to help you with this year’s holiday preparations. I’m talking about Advent and some simple ways to count the days before Christmas.
It doesn’t take too many days of using an Advent calendar for even young kids to start to understand the idea of a count-down. The simple, repeated act – be it opening a drawer on an heirloom calendar to reveal a surprise or tearing the next link on a paper chain every day – is a fun way for kids to mark the passage of time.
Are you looking for some ideas for observing Advent this year? I’ve rounded up 20 of my favorite ideas for you to choose from.
Today I get to announce the second giveaway of our annual Home for the Holidays week! This is one of my very favorite recommendations for parents of crafty kids, and it would make a fantastic holiday gift: a six month subscription to Kiwi Crate.
We love Kiwi Crate at our house! Those green boxes are heralded with shouts of joy when my kids find them in the mailbox because they know fun is held within.
Back in September I let you in on my secret for how I “do it all” with the kids – homeschooling, crafting, parenting, etc. The not-so-secret secret is that I let other people do some of the work for me.
Enter Kiwi Crate: a monthly subscription service with themed crafts for your kids that, get this, includes everything you need in the box. You just have to gather your children, open the box, and get started. Ta da! You get to be one of those fun parents able to pull together a crafting session with your kids at a moment’s notice.
We’ve been crafting and exploring with one of their holiday themed crates this month, making a cardboard “gingerbread” house and some ornaments. So much fun!
As we were planning this year’s Home for the Holidays, it was important to all of the editors at Simple Living Media that we include the tradition we started last year: a charity focus.
We wanted to dedicate a day amidst the giveaways and other festivities to shine the spotlight on some truly great organizations who are dedicated to doing good things for others.
Each editor picked a cause near and dear to her heart. This year I returned to my favorite charity, the Mother Bear Project.
