Three Things : Weekdays + Creative Family Giveaway

Wow! That looks like a great book.

Our daughter Carlynn is 13 months old. I think it is important to start activity early. We take walks as a family. Carlynn and our labradoodle, Rufina, enjoy getting out to see nature and my hubby and I enjoy the exercise.

we love to go out for a walking in the nature, around a lake or in the forest. There are amazing places to walk here where we live and our kids are very good walkers already, and they are only 33 and 15 months old! we also treasure our dinner time, being together around the table every evening and talking is for us a "must".

We enjoy going to the neighborhood playground together. Love the title of the book! As we "find our way" in parenting our 18 month old daughter we're actively looking for ways to encourage creativity and to discover her unique gifting.

one of the things that we really enjoy doing as a family is working in the garden together. i love to watch kenny teach ethan how to become a steward of our land . . .even if at this point in time it is only in the garden and not out in our fields! we all work together to grow our own produce . . .can't wait to pick that first ripe tomato!

We're an outdoors family so our favorite things gravitate toward anything camping or water related. On our beach vacations we always collected shells and other beach treasures then came up with great ideas on using them for creative art projects later.

Thanks Ali! Our favorite thing to do as a family is work in the woods at our maple sugaring business. There is stuff to do all year long and we all enjoying spending time outside and in the woods.

That sounds like an amazing book!
Right now our favorite thing to do as a family is go to our son's baseball games. He's only 4 so they are just having fun but we get to watch him/be with him and enjoy it with our daughter was is 16 months.

We take our 4 year old son kayaking with us. He fits nicely in one of our single kayaks and he loves being on the water. (My husband and I trade off having our son in the boat with us, so we can also enjoy being in the boat on our own too.)
My husband and I enjoy just being out in nature with him. It has become a great activity to do right after dinner when the weather is nice. I highly recommend it!

Family popcorn night. Sunday nights we have family and close friends in for popcorn and movie night. It is a tradition I hope my kids will remember. Good lesson in hospitality too!

We love to go out on our boat together. Small space, being together making memories. Always some antics going on.

I already have (and LOVE!) the book, so you can pick someone else, but wanted to share our favorite family time activity (which is not in the book). We love playing games together. Our four year old can finally play at least a couple of board games, which we love. I remember my own family building memories and moments together around a game on the dining room table. And we still do...

One of my favorite things to do with my family is to "chillax" at my sister's place, snack on our traditional ethnic foods (Filipino) and tell the family stories; those of our childhood and those even farther back, like my mom's memories from before my sister and I were born. I've learned so much about my heritage; I can imagine that I was there and it help me not to forget from where I come.

My favourite thing to do right now with my three year old is garden. I am a bit of a perfectionist and find with most activities I get agitated cause she isn't "doing it right" and then I get angry at myself for being agitated. In the garden I am much more relaxed and how can she dig a hole wrong? Because I let her do it her way she enjoys it so much and loves that she can get dirty.
My husband is quite relaxed with her outside as well and gives her little jobs to do and baby sister sits and watches all of us. Sigh. I love summer and love our garden. :D

We have a 3 week old son (our first) so we are just learning how to be a family together. So far our favorite thing is to load baby up in the sling and go for a nice walk. I would love to get some ideas from that book - love SouleMama's blog!

We recently started hiking and trying to find unknown walking trails around our house. i've been following SouleMama's blog since you mentioned it last time and I absolutely love reading about her creations and her family. I hope that when we have kids in the near future, I can do all of those things with them. I would love the book to help encourage mine and their (future :) creativity.

Hi Ali. Our family loves to go to the park and play soccer. I have two girls (5 and 7) who are just nuts about soccer. We also like to take a family walk after dinner.

Our favorite thing is a family dinner just about every night. With 4 kids in the house and tweens and toddlers...the meals aren't always relaxing and pleasant...but at least we are talking and communicating and together. Sometimes with families...that is what is important. I know the fighting won't be remembered, but my kids will remember that we had dinner together as a family. So for at least 20 min every day...we are together as a family.

We like to explore outside for bugs & rocks. My son is 18 months old & totally into being outside. We talk about the birds & flowers. He also loves books but is most excited to talk about the things that he's seen in real life: trees, butterflies, trucks! :) We enjoy just being together & exploring with our boy.

we definitely have "family night" every monday night. it's the best way to get everyone together because we know it happens every monday night. we sing songs and play games. it's the best!