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How to add hygge to your Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day crafts for the romantic. Bring coziness, mindfulness and happiness to your Valentine's Day celebration. Danish happiness. Hygge crafts for a beautiful Valentine's day. Valentine's Day crafts. #Valentinesday #Hygge #MamaintheNow #ValentinesDayHygge #ValentinesdayCrafts

How to Add Hygge to Your Valentine’s Day

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How to hygge on Valentine's Day We’ve been talking about hygge for a bit now, and how hygge is about coziness, feeling comfortable, no-stress and simply an overall feeling of satisfaction and contentment.  Valentine’s Day is another excellent opportunity to light some candles, snuggle on the View Post

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New Year's Eve hygge without stress. Stress free New Year's eve ideas for the whole family. Family friendly New Year's eve ideas. Hygge for the whole family. #hygge #NYE #NewYearsEve #KidFriendlyNewYearsEve #StressFreeNewYearsEve #StressFreeNYE #MamaintheNow

All the Stress-Free New Years Hygge Ideas You Need

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Instead of a stress-filled New Year's eve, focus on your family and hygge! Get all the stress-free New Year's hygge ideas you need right here! Hygge at New Year's  Can you believe another year is almost over? It seems like just yesterday we were ringing in the new year! This year, try something View Post

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prAna Winter Clothes review. Comfortable and stylish clothes for busy moms. Clothes to hygge in and run around town. #prAna #prAna4Winter #MomStyle #OOTD #MomFashion #PranaReview #hygge #Momlife #motherhood #mamainthenow #ad

How to Pick the Best Hygge Clothes for Winter

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This post is sponsored by prAna. I received free clothes in return for my honest opinion about their product. All opinions stated here are 100% mine. We Need Hygge Clothes - NOW! Growing up in Denmark, we were told “there’s no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing,” which in View Post

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How to Enjoy More Holiday Hygge Without More Stress. Christmas hygge and stress-free family fun. Enjoy Thanksgiving, Christmas and the winter holidays without stress, but with lots of hygge. Family time, holiday memories without breaking the bank. #Hygge #Christmas #Holidays #HolidayFun #FamilyTime #HolidayHygge #ChristmasHygge #Family #Stressfree

How to Enjoy More Holiday Hygge Without More Stress

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In Search of More Holiday Hygge and Less Stress A few years ago, I needed to read this article. Our little family of six went on our first Disney cruise just a few days before Christmas, along with my in-laws, my husband’s brother, his wife and their two girls. After the cruise, all 12 of us View Post

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Learn the meaning of hygge and how to pronounce it. Danish coziness explained by a Dane. Hygge explained. Danish happiness can be explained with one simple word: "hygge" - learn all about it. #Hygge #Happiness #Denmark #Danish #Coziness #SimpleLife #Hyggelig #TheDanishWay #MamaintheNow #Hyggelife

What is The Meaning and Pronunciation of “Hygge”?!

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The Meaning and Pronunciation of "Hygge":  On this cool fall morning, I am cozied up next to the fireplace with my computer, a hot cup of coffee and my favorite music filling the air. Do you know what this is? This IS HYGGE! Hygge is one of the “hot” buzz words of our time. Not many can pronounce View Post

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How to embrace hygge on a budget. Frugal living tips to bring hygge into your life. Lifestyle tips and hacks to add hygge to your family life. #hygge #Frugal #OnABudget #Hyggelig #Family #Danish #Denmark #MamaintheNow

How to Embrace Hygge on a Budget

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How to Embrace Hygge on a Budget:  You’ve seen the memes about how awesome it must be to live in Denmark, right? When I tell people that I left Denmark at my own free-will when I was 18 years old, they look at me like I have three heads. Clearly no-one in their right mind would ever leave the View Post

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How to "Live in the Now" when life gets hard. Motherhood is hard enough, add in extra stress, how do you stay mindful in the midst of an emotional storm? Parenting while handling stress, isn't easy. Mindful and positive parenting is possible when life gets hard. This is how I am doing it - a mother of four. #LiveInTheNow #BeWhereYouAre #Mindfulness #Motherhood

How to “Live in The NOW” When Life Gets Hard

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“Live in the NOW” - they say. Live with your feet planted firmly on the ground in the right here and NOW. "Live in the NOW" is what they tell us. Which “NOW” is it they are referring to? The one where I am hyper-focused on the pain and anguish around me? The NOW where my loved ones are scared, View Post

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DIY Danish Christmas Heart Craft. These adorable felt hearts are a wonderful way to give a gift card, small present or handmade ornament! Fun to make with kids.

DIY Danish Christmas Heart Craft

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Christmas is about upholding and creating traditions. Every year families bring out ornaments and decorations that have been with them for years, possibly even generations. There are certain iconic images that in an instant will take us back in time.For me, it is the Danish Christmas heart that View Post

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5 Fun and Easy Ways for Busy Families to Connect

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Today's post is a guest submission from Patricia Dimick. She has written a number of articles for me. Her articles are always timely and well-received.With such busy schedules, families spend too little quality time together these days. From school and tutoring time to extracurricular View Post

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Learning through play, the Danish Way. Learn the importance of unstructured play - one of the main pillars in a Danish child's upbringing.

Learning Through Play, the Danish Way

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Americans are busy people. We run to and fro at a high rate of speed. We over-schedule our days all in an effort not to miss anything. We thrive on productivity, a concept that is often confused with “a lot of harried movement.” As a culture we unfortunately no longer value “downtime”/ “free time” View Post

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LEGO Tea Candle Lights! Easy and fun DIY craft just in time for Halloween and the dark winter months.

LEGO Tea Candle Lights

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As we face the time of year where the days are shorter and the nights are longer, there is nothing more comforting as family time around a table decorated with lit candles. In Danish we call this “hygge”, which is a way to describe a cozy ambiance. With all that said, what is more Danish, cozy and View Post

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The Most Delicious Danish Desserts, Pastries and Treats

Delicious Danish Desserts

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Join me for a trip down memory lane, please. Back to a time where the size of my awkwardly large feet were rivaled only by my enormous and frizzy permed hair. My oversized teeth were covered in metal braces, and I was desperately waiting for the teenage years to pass. The year was circa 1988 and the View Post

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6 Tips to Create Family Traditions, PEACEFULLY! (Mother-in-law Approved)

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I LOVE this time of year. The sense of familiarity and comfort that comes from honoring age-old traditions reassures us that all is well in the world. Today we brought home our family’s annual Christmas tree. We hung the handmade ornaments: the snowmen with all the fake snow worn off, the glass View Post

Filed Under: Hygge, Life Style, Motherhood, Our Life Tagged With: Christmas, Danish, family, Happiness, live in the now, Motherhood

The Danes are the happiest people because of one little word!

Translating a Word that was Never Meant to be Translated

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Each language has a few words that cannot easily be translated, and the Danish language is no exception. Danish is in general not as colorful and full of nuances as English. I often find when translating from English to Danish that some of the emotions are “lost in translation” simply because Danish View Post

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