New Year’s Eve With Kids
For the fourth year in a row we’re hosting a family-friendly New Year’s Eve party with our friends. I shared some great ideas last year, but thought I’d throw out a few more for your viewing pleasure for the 07-08 party. This year since we’ve moved to a place with quite a bit more room [...]
The Best Handmade Christmas Ornaments
Baby’s First Christmas ornaments are an adorable keepsake, but it’s easy to find some truly horrendous options. One way to avoid those is to make your own. I love the idea of taking one of your baby’s very first tiny socks, attaching them to one another creating a ribbon to hang them from. You could [...]
The Best Handmade Holiday Cards For Kids
I’m not going to lie to you. I am not even going to attempt to make our holiday cards this year. I have a motto and the motto is this: Whatever needs to get done, will get done. Making homemade cards is not making my list this year. The kids, however, want to make a [...]
The Best Thanksgiving Jokes and Graces.
We’ve been talking about Thanksgiving a little for the past few weeks and it’s right around the corner. I thought it might be helpful to share a few Thanksgiving bits to get you ready for the big day. I have an ongoing dream that one day I will stand up before a large group of [...]
The Best Thanksgiving Crafts and Traditions
I realized this morning there are just two weeks until Thanksgiving. I somehow convinced myself that days do not add up to weeks and it was still the beginning of November. Now is the time to get organized for the first of the fall and winter holidays. I am a huge fan of Thanksgiving because [...]
Best Fall Crafts for Kids
I am late with my Tuesday entry because we had a little trip this weekend, the first time I’ve gone away with my husband on an airplane to stay in a hotel in seven years. The trip tried to kill me because it centered around running and then recovering from the running. This is exactly [...]










