Living a Sunshine Life

Making Healthy Choices with 4-H Food Smart Families

In addition to the clubs, programs, contests, and educational resources, 4-H also does a lot for the community. They provide opportunities and encourage kids to get out in the community to volunteer. Since 2001, one of the amazing program opportunities 4-H offers in partnership with United Healthcare is 4-H Food Smart Families.

Almost 16 million children live in households that are food insecure. This means they don’t have consistent access to food year round. The Food Smart Families program works with these families to educate them on how to plan, shop for and prepare healthy meals.

In the past six years 340,000 youth and their families in 14 states have benefitted from healthy living programs provided by the partnership between United Healthcare and 4-H.

Relaxation Blog and Journal Prompts

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Summer is just around the corner and I’m ready for some rest and relaxation! It’s vacation season! We’ve already taken a couple day trips this year so far, but I’m looking forward to some more adventures. We’re more of a spontaneous family so you never know when or where we’ll decide to pick up and…

June Relaxation Social Media Challenge #SunshineYourFeed

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Finally it’s our summer break and a majority of my scheduled obligations are complete. We still have a camping trip and a water park outing left on the books, but that’s some fun I can handle. Since it’s time for us to take a bit of a break I thought this was the perfect time…

Homemade Taco Seasoning

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My kids are serious about Taco Tuesday. It has to be Tuesday if we’re going to have tacos that is. I’m not sure why they’re so particular about it, but that’s the groan I hear every time I try to make tacos on any other day of the week. The thing that’s weird about this…

The Ultimate Collection of List Journal Ideas

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I love journaling. One of my favorite types of journals is a list journal. Basically, this is just a journal where you create lists about anything you want to create a list about. Sometimes I want to write, but I don’t know what to write about, or I’m not looking for any kind of deep…

Finding Positive Inspiration Through the Rude Behavior of Others

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If you’re going to pull something childish and rude on people in public, you better make sure you’re not messing around with the wrong person. The wrong person may just be a blogger, like me, who’s going to share your story with the public. Okay, really if you’re going to pull something childish and rude…

May Blog & Journal Prompts

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I really do hope April showers bring May flowers, because wow it was a rainy April this year. The kids are okay with that because they had plenty of opportunities to play in the rain and picked up some brand new rain boots for puddle hopping. This month we’re talking about creativity. Not only will…

May Creativity Social Media Challenge #SunshineYourFeed

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The early spring colds have finally left our household, allergens are down for the moment and I’m feeling energized! I’ve had a lot of creative energy running through me lately, so I thought it was about time to share some of that creative inspiration with the world. That’s right, this month’s #SunshineYourFeed social media challenge…

On Climate, It’s Time to Act Globally

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Guest Post provided by Kiva As the March for Science calls on our government this Earth Day to face the facts in its policy-making, a parallel movement to fight climate change is giving Americans a way to support reductions in greenhouse gas emissions around the world at www.Kiva.org/EarthDay For many of us, who have long…

Worlds of Fun: A First Time for Everything

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Last year we had our first Worlds of Fun Adventure. It was our first visit to the park and we were glad we went. This year, we were familiar with the park so we took on some favorite attractions from last year, and made sure we hit up some of the things we missed from last year.

Some of the rides we missed last year weren’t actually missed. They just weren’t there last year! That’s right, Worlds of Fun has two new thrill rides! Mustang Runner and Falcon’s Flight.