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Kids get to old for the traditional egg hunt before they want to give up having fun on Easter. And if course it’s before they want to give up getting candy! But there are fun things you can do with tweens and teens that are more than an egg hunt.
One year we made a texting scavenger hunt for our three teens/preteens. One of the best parts? The Easter Bunny didn’t have to get up early to hide eggs in the yard!
We all had a ball doing the hunt. I hope you do too!…
I love a good, happy chick flick! And my teen girls do too! Romantic comedies are our favorite. No tissues and tears for these girls. Teens have enough drama in their life already.
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I enjoy the challenge of coming up with the perfect gift for that hard-to-buy-for person on my gift list. To me, the perfect gifts are items you wouldn’t have thought of for yourself, or ones that go beyond the basic we often purchase for ourselves. To my surprise, one of my most viewed Pinterest boards is gifts for tween and teen girls. That’s who I find it the easiest to shop for! I don’t need a gift guide for that myself. So that’s a good time to write one!
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It turns out PHP – probably something you’ve never touched if you’re not a full time website developer – needs to be updated by you. Updating your version of PHP will not only increase the security of your website, but speed it up as well. Learn how to update PHP.
What version of PHP is on your website?…
Pinterest is my favorite social media platform. I would hang out there and collect ideas, even if I wasn’t blogging. For years I have heard successful bloggers recommend Tailwind for increasing Pinterest traffic. But I kept putting it off until I had the time to learn how to use Tailwind and set it up. Well, I decided that it’s finally time to MAKE the time to work with Tailwind!
So I signed up.
If you haven’t signed up yet you can use my link to sign up for Tailwind and get a free month! (And I will get a free month too, so thank you very much.) You can also use Tailwind for Instagram, so if you’re active there it’s even more of a bargain!
It does take awhile to set up Tailwind for Pinterest. Here are 11 tips that I stumbled across or thought of as I started working with Tailwind….
Beginning July 2018, Google Chrome will start warning all visitors to HTTP sites that the site doesn’t have SSL encryption and is “not secure.” Do you know if you have SSL encryption on your website? Do you have a little padlock before your website URL in your browser? Does your URL start with httpS? (Emphasis on the s!) If not, keep reading for a tutorial to easily move your WordPress website from HTTP to HTTPS and preserve SEO. And make Google and your visitors happy!
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) improves web site’s security with encryption and authentication. Secure sites will begin with https:// (instead of http://). Most web browsers will also display a little lock icon.
It used to be that you only needed SSL if your website collected information, like payment information and passwords. But now Google has decided to favor websites that have it regardless of whether or not they collect information.…
Everything else to eat at your Halloween party follows the Halloween theme – don’t wimp out and serve just plain old soda to drink! This a super easy way to dress up your drinks for your Halloween party. Worm juice – Halloween drink for kids…
I know, I know. You’re going to have lots of trick-or-treat candy. But maybe your Halloween party is on a different night. Or maybe you haven’t got a great centerpiece for your table, like this cute cardboard haunted house. This Halloween cake is super easy to make! You can start from scratch or use baking mixes. It’s so cute that it also makes a great centerpiece for your Halloween party!…
Need some great Halloween food ideas for kids to eat before they stuff themselves with candy? Try this goblin Halloween fruit! Three different versions of a super easy “fruit salad.”
You won’t get any fussing out of your kids for these fruit “salads.” They’ll gobble them up! The ghost and jack o’lantern faces are a bit more healthy as they are made entire out of fruit – canned fruit and dried fruit. The monster faces use chewy candies, but it is Halloween after all!…