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Little Passports Gift Guide

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October 27, 2017 By Jennifer

Give your kids the world!

The best kids’ gifts inspire the imagination and keep kids interested and engaged. That’s exactly what you get with Little Passports monthly subscriptions!
Check out the Globetrotter’s Gift Guide!

Little Passports has the perfect gift for all ages:

World Edition

Ages 6-10, explore a new country each month with souvenirs and hands-on activities

Science Expeditions

Ages 9 and up, reveal mysteries of the world through science experiments & activities

Early Explorers

Ages 3-5, discover a new world theme each month, like Oceans, Music & Dinosaurs

USA Edition

Ages 7-12, learn about two new states each month, with activity-packed State Journals

Give the gift of Adventure!

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Give the Gift of Adventure with Uncommon Goods

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October 19, 2017 By Jennifer 2 Comments

I just love my fun travel cork globe from UncommonGoods!

Our new globe showcases our travels as a family.

The cork globe is lightweight and hollow. We were careful with the thumb tacks and pins. We don’t want to dent our globe!

I love the simple modern stainless steel stand.

It was super easy to assemble. Just fit the steel rod axis through the globe and screw on the top peg.

Our globe measures: 11.8″ height x 9.84″ diameter.

Latitudes, longitudes, the equator, and meridians are well-marked. Continents and countries are easy to view. There’s a neato compass in the Pacific Ocean. It rotates on its axis. It’s great as an educational tool!

It could be fun to tack small souvenirs to the globe too. I don’t feel comfortable removing or replacing the tacks and pins and leaving holes in the cork. There’s also a full-color globe available that is very pretty.

Our family loves this addition to our rather minimalist decor, tastefully exhibiting our travels.

Uncommon Goods is one-stop shopping for the whole family! I want pretty much everything they have.

The travel and book-themed items are some of my favorites.

Explore all the unique and top-rated items at Uncommon Goods and check out these amazing stocking stuffers! There’s something on these lists to buy for even your most difficult person who seems to have everything. I often send my parents clever gardening and home decor gifts.

I was so pleased by the very careful packaging of my cork globe! Shipping was super quick too.

Six red thumb tacks (included with the globe) mark the places we have lived as a military family.

We probably have a few more adventures to go!

White straight pins mark the fun places we have traveled as a family.

We hope to add many more in the future!

This fun cork travel globe was a great surprise family gift that we all enjoy.

There are so many fun items that I love from Uncommon Goods – I’m updating my wishlist!

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10 Gifts for Natural Living

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December 8, 2015 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

Know someone who has a chemical-free home?

Here are my Top 10 Gifts for Natural Living!

10 Gifts for Natural Living

These are my favorite natural living products that we use in our home almost every day!

1. Wool Dryer Balls

Fabric softeners are irritating to skin and lungs.

Use wool dryer balls with vinegar and/or essential oils instead!

2. Essential Oil Diffuser Necklaces

Essential Oil Diffuser Necklace

Love something pretty that smells great and has other great benefits!

3. Microfiber Cleaning Cloths

I love using pretty colored cloths for all our house cleaning needs – with just water or natural products like vinegar and essential oils.

Blue for windows, tan for dusting, silver for stainless!

4. Refillable Spray Mop

We love making our own cleaners and a refillable spray mop with a reusable pad makes cleaning floors easy and healthier and more environmentally sound.

5. DIY gifts with Essential Oils

Here are 10 ideas of essential oils gifts to make for friends and family (or yourself!).

6. Gift certificate to Radiant Life

I love this company for glassware and supplements – especially cod liver oil!

7. Essential Oil Diffuser

We have diffusers in almost every room. I love the scent and benefits!

We use calming scents in the bedroom and attentive scents in the school room. Cleansing scents can get rid of cooking odors.

8. Himalayan Salt Lamp

We love the soft light and qualities of these lamps in our home office and bedrooms.

These lamps can reduce indoor air pollution and allergens, improves mood and sleep quality, and reduces stress.

9. Natural Makeup and Skincare Items

We especially love Lemongrass Spa (please use my code 5450) and Cowgirl Dirt for great chemical-free, pretty makeup. We love the way our skin feels and looks with the natural cleansers and moisturizers.

10. A Happy Lamp

We live where it’s damp, cold, and dim – sometimes year-round! This Go-Lite lamp has helped us the last couple years to improve mood and energy level during those darker days.

What are your favorite natural living items?

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Gifts for the Geek

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November 24, 2014 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

I’m so proud that the kids like geeky stuff.

Great Geeky Gifts
I think it’s so much better that my girls obsess over David Tennant and Benedict Cumberbatch than the latest pop music star boy group. I’d rather we watch intelligent BBC programming than Disney – or whatever it is that’s mindless and popular with tweens and teens. I am loving seeing my kids’ senses of humor developing with brilliant British jokes.

Doctor Who Gifts

This Christmas, the kids are gonna be so excited that I scored some awesome DW loot on zulily.com.


Star Trek Gifts

Because nothing geeky is complete without Star Trek. Even if it’s not technically British. At least there’s Sir Patrick and Benedict. :) Whether they prefer the classics or the new movies, there’s a great gift for your Trekkie!


Sherlock Gifts

For new and old fans, BBC with Benedict…and the movies with RDJ (not mentioning that blasphemous American show, ahem)…Sherlock Holmes is a beloved icon.


Narnia Gifts

The brilliant writing of CS Lewis and the lovely imagery of the movies, these are timeless stories with a great message.


Harry Potter Gifts

I was ecstatic to stop by the Harry Potter shop in London and get all sorts of goodies for the kids. They love their Marauders’ Map and wands and Hogwarts tickets.


Tolkien Gifts

The ultimate in fantasy geekery. I have loved Tolkien since the little Hobbit cartoon in the ’70s!


Star Wars Gifts

I really, really, really wish I still had my original Ewok village and star fighters. And all my figures. I saw Return of the Jedi in theatres and I was sold on the whole franchise. While we wait anxiously to see what Disney does to our beloved characters and stories, here are some fun gifts for your Jedi lover.


What’s on your geek gift list?

 

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10 Best Gifts for Travelers

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November 17, 2014 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

What do you buy someone who loves to travel?

Here are some unique travel gifts for your globetrotter.

10 Best Gifts for Travelers

10 Fun and Unique Gifts for a Traveler

1. eBags Packing Cubes to pack everything smarter and make it fit. Especially in those carry-ons.

2. A good quality small rolly suitcase (Europeans only do carry ons and I have no idea how they fit everything they need in that for a long trip – even with cubes!) Here’s one to fit your budget. They’re all fun:

  • Rockland for $53.54
  • Delsey for $127.49
  • Samsonite for $229.99
  • Victorinox for $379.99
  • Tumi for $396

3. Silicone Travel Tubes. These won’t take up as much space as the hard plastic containers!

4. A fun portable charger like this pink lipstick-sized external battery.

5. Fun Luggage Tags that personalize your bags.

6. Jet Bag for packing breakables. Padded and absorbent!

7. Aquis Hair Drying Turban. I love these so much we use them at homeand when we travel! Wicks away the wet super fast.

8.Travel Wallet. To keep important forms, papers, ID. Don’t keep all your ID and currency and credit cards all in one place! Several colors to choose from. Unisex.

9.Bose Noise-Canceling Headphones. Trust me. You want these.

10. A fun and functional travel adaptor for all your electric needs worldwide (150 countries).

What are your favorite travel accessories?

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10 Gifts for a Military Family

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November 14, 2013 By Jennifer 3 Comments

What can you give military families?

10 Gifts for a Military Family

We were lucky that when my husband deployed the first time, it was after Christmas.

Not so lucky that he left on our anniversary, but oh, well.

And he returned before the next Christmas.

The second deployment, he left in early fall and return in spring.

We miss celebrating holidays and other fun events.

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You can give the gift of time or service for a military family, deployed situation or not.

We often don’t need more things and we often won’t ask for help, even when we need it most. We’re used to fending for ourselves and caring for our own. And pretending everything’s ok.

This list is great year-round, for military families with a deployed member or not.

10 Gifts for the Military Family:

  1. Yard care. If you live in a climate with winter, you can shovel or snow-blow their driveway and sidewalks. It will be much appreciated. Trust me. Mow the lawn. Help with yardwork. Lots of youth groups or scout troops need community service. This is a great way to show support.
  2. Caffeine. Drop by with coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. Or gift cards to a local coffeeshop that has a drivethru. Especially on cold, dark, rainy, or snowy days.
  3. Visit. Stop by unannounced – maybe with donuts or fresh bread and clean the kitchen. Bring wine! Some friends from church did that for me on my birthday when my husband was deployed. I was elated. It was such a beautiful thing.
  4. Take the kids. Treat my kids to ice cream. Or to a park. Or to a museum. Or a movie. Out. Somewhere. Anywhere. Give this mom a break for an hour or two. As a homeschool mom with four kids and a deployed husband, I need a break, people.
  5. Encourage self-care. Take the kids for an evening (or weekend) so the couple can have a date night. If the military member is deployed, offer to watch the kids for an hour, an afternoon, or an evening to help out. Often, military couples have a hard time finding child care so they just don’t ever go out. Not cool. We need that adult couple time. A couple from church once took our four kids all weekend long so we could go away (only about an hour away, but still!). It’s only the second time we’ve done that throughout our whole marriage!
  6. Vehicle care. Get our vehicle serviced or detailed. Seriously. This is something a friend of mine received when her husband was deployed and I thought it was the greatest thing ever! I never think of it until the dashboard lights come on. I don’t know how to check my tire pressure, y’all. And then there’s trouble and usually lots of expense involved!
  7. Hospitality. Invite the family over for a meal, dessert, drinks, a music event, a holiday lights display. Something. Include them. We’re often far from home and family and feel isolated and excluded. And we’d love to learn new traditions and celebrate with you. We may decline for some reason, but we will feel loved.
  8. Carpooling. If you know the kids have music lessons, dance, gymnastics, art, sports, church activities, whatever…offer to help out, especially if there are babies or toddlers or preschoolers in the household. I am so stressed juggling my four kids and their activities when my husband is deployed. Sometimes, I would skip something to let the baby finish a nap. It was just easier.
  9. Anticipate needs. Bring grocery necessities by or call if you’re at the store to see if they need anything. It’s so frustrating to run out of milk or eggs or realize you’re missing an ingredient for a recipe and have to drop everything to run to the store. But to drag four kids out in a blizzard with no help and not being able to call, “Honey, can you pick up ____ on the way home?” Depressing. And I went to three stores yesterday to stock up on everything and still forgot the effing milk.
  10. Appointments. If they have medical or vet appointments, ask if you can help. Most vets and doctors prefer children not to be in attendance so there’s no distraction, so offer to watch the kids during appointments. Many moms don’t get check-ups since it’s so stressful. Help her maintain her health!

Ask. Offer. Be sincere.

We often say we’re just fine when we’re really hanging onto sanity by a fine thread.

You can offer to walk the dogs. Or just come over for a chat. Bring a bottle of wine or beer over after the kids’ bedtime. Email or call for some encouragement. Send a note or flowers that you’re thinking about her.

If something breaks in the house or car and she’s used to relying on her husband to fix it, help her find someone to do the job – for free or really cheap! We don’t have a network since we move around so frequently.

Be someone they can call if they need help. Be a listener. Be a doer.

Our neighbors helped to clear everything out of our basement when it flooded on a holiday morning and my husband was deployed the first time. (Thank God for my amazing neighbors. Bless those people!)

Be available. Be a friend.

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Gifts for the Homeschool Family

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November 4, 2013 By Jennifer 1 Comment

Our family and friends think it’s very difficult to choose gifts for us. And it is. We have high standards for quality and are kinda particular about the toys we allow. We don’t want clutter or something that’s not educational or useful.

And we don’t have a lot of storage space since we’re military and move every few years.

Books and experiences are the best!

Great Gifts for the Homeschool Family

BOOKS are always welcome.

Not sure? Gift cards to bookstores or Amazon are perfect.

Ask which curricula we’re needing.

There’s always something needed next and often: gift certificates are usually available. Or just use my blog affiliate links on your own purchases to help us out! {Thanks}

Often the extras get pushed aside.

Experiences: Music lessons or art classes or gymnastics are great gifts for homeschoolers.

My kids would LOVE that. We just can’t manage it for four kids year-round right now.

Also, memberships to museums or subscriptions to educational magazines are great!

We love Zoobooks and Nat Geo and Discover.

What are great gifts for a homeschool family?

Whole Family:

We love gifts that the whole family can enjoy together! Game night is fun.


Littles: Alex loves his light box we made. I need to collect some supplies to really use it to its potential. These are some items I’m eyeing.

Big Kids: Tori and Kate are pretty obsessed with art and science. I need to provide outlets for that! And they need something to release all that energy too.


Teens: Liz loves art and science. I’m not real crafty, so I need to help her out.


Dads: like to grill and do woodworking!


Mamas: We got a Nespresso as soon as we married. We thought we were way cool until Keurig came along with their killer advertising and Nespresso took a backseat. For a little sumpin sumpin other than coffee on a brisk and rainy afternoon, I often choose a fine tea. I am a foodie snob, so no 3-buck tea for me!



For a chef (or wannabe cook) – they need the best, right?


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