Three Things : Weekdays + Creative Family Giveaway

I'm a single mom to a 4 year old and work very long hours so to be honest, just hugging him for hours on end and curling up with him to watch his fav shows as I sing to him and kiss his cheek is the ultimate best especially when he looks up at me and says, "I love you so much mommy" This may seem simple to some but worth every single important thing to me.

My little one loves the park. I think he could spend all day swinging. So fresh and fun!
I would LOVE this book. I have been meaning to pick it up. Free would be nice!

Our favorite thing to do together as a family is to have dinner together as many nights as we can in our hectic schedules (we try for at least four nights a week)

Our favorite thing to do as a family is to go around and everyone says their favorite thing that happened that day.

Thanks for giving such a great book! It is just my hubby and I right now but we like to get together with his parents, his sister and her family and we all play board games together! Such a riot!

we go to my mother-in-law's lakehouse in Michigan. It's so good to get away from the every day hustle and bustle....see the lake...see extended family. Fun. Good stuff.

To this day my family still loves to lay board games together. My siblings are now all in their early twenties and if we have an hour or two to spare, usually on the weekend, we haul out a board-game. Lately our favorite has been an oldie but a goodie, Globetrotters, great for geography skills, another newer favorite is Settlers of Catan and Caracazone.

I would love to have this book to give to my daughters now that they are moms! When our kids were little, we loved having meals together, going for Sunday drives which often included a picnic and time at the river/lake to throw rocks, and always, always reading bedtime stories together.
Thanks for being so generous!

One of my favorite things to do with my family is hang out in the kitchen! We paint, color, cook, sing, and dance in the
kitchen. Lots of good memories there.

One of my two favourite things to do with my two toddler boys and my husband is to play a wooshie-kushie game [rubbing other's nose with the palm of our hand], and having a family huggle [aka. hug] in bed in the morning!

love the layouts of Simon. It's great that he loves getting his day back on track and moving on in such a fun way. We are outside as much as we can be. I'm jealous of your hot weather. Here in MN it's still only about 60 degrees and windy. Thanks as always for being an inspiration.

We bond over board games. We have moved up from Candy Land to Clue and love Whoknew and anything by Cranium. We are getting ready to move next month and I have plans for some awesome open shelves from Ikea to hold games in our new family room. Family fun is such an important priority. Good luck to all who attempt/accomplish it!

There's nothing like gathering around the table and eating good food + sharing stories + making each other laugh + telling each other how our day was spent. A lunch or dinner could go on for at least two hours when we are having so much fun. :)

Just spending time together - everyone! These days that seems next to impossible to accomplish. I am so thankful for the upcoming holiday weekend.

Just a really simple one here - reading together in bed - out loud, to ourselves, shared. I just love the relaxed nature of it and the closeness of each of us.

I have had my eye on this book for a while--I think my favorite thing to do is reading together before bed; my husband is reading Harry Potter out-loud to my older two, and I read to the younger ones. Great times together. Then asking, "Is there anything you want to talk to me about?" before I leave the room. Thanks for asking!

Thanks Ali for a great giveaway. :)
My family and I have at least one set night per week titled "game night." It gives us a chance to get together and bond over board games, from scrabble to cranium. We talk and laugh as we play. :)

We love to go camping together. There's nothing like sitting in front of the fire , eating smores, talking, and just being.

We have many things as a family that we love doing...
When my girls were little, we would play "pet shop" all day, everyday. When dad would come home, he would settle one of them on his lap and then proceed to "shop" at the pet shop....it always involved a returned pet and lots of laughing. What fun!
As the girls got older, we enjoyed reading together. Often the house would be totally silent and there we would be - all five of us - and we would be reading. Sometimes we sat on the porch and read...or sometimes in lawn chairs...sometimes we were at the kitchen table. It just depended on the weather and what everyone was up to. *sigh*

Our family love to have one night with not TV at all we either choose to play a game, talk about our day or generally I pile out all my scrapbook stash and we just play. My youngest son absolutely loves to scrapbook and he is never without a piece of paper, pencil or adhesive in his hand. I just love that!!!