Last Minute Gift: Peppermint Bark In Enticing Boxes
As much as I try to pretend it’s not true, it’s go time. It’s time to make Christmas happen, it’s coming ready or not. Because of this I ran out and put together this very quick gift for the great number of people I want to express my kind feelings for. I love peppermint bark [...]
Holiday DIY: Gumdrop Ornaments With Kids
Yesterday was a snow day. It snowed a lot on Sunday, I’ll give the school that. But there are also plows and salt trucks who worked very very hard to clear the roads. All their hard work went to waste though, because they still canceled school. I expect the Superintendent to apologize to the DPW [...]
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 [...]









