Monsters on Crafty Crow!
I am super excited…today one of my posts (Monster Mayhem) was featured on the Crafty Crow! It’s an awesome blog with lots of great crafty inspiration! Be sure to head over and check out all the cool crafty ideas.
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter from our family to yours! I hope you’ve had a marvelous day! We spent the day with loved ones, sloshing through the mud looking for eggs, eating way too many sweets, giggling, chatting, playing in the rain, making music, and feeling blessed.
Easter Eve: Getting Ready for Holidays
Today is “Easter Eve”. I’m spending the day doing what I do the day before almost any major holiday…cleaning, preparing, organizing, list-writing, cooking, etc. Just readying our family for the chaos that can come with holidays. I feel like everyone is much happier going from place to place and missing naps if we are ready...
Monster Mayhem Craft
We did a monster craft this week and the kids had so much fun and got to get the creative juices flowing in the process. Some small tots are afraid of monsters…but this project might be just the ticket to help make monsters a little less scary. It’s also a great opportunity to talk to...
Valentine’s Day Celebrations
We are celebrating Valentine’s Day family-style today. Don’t worry, we had a date night to celebrate as well. But the kids get so excited about this holiday that we have to have some festivities at home for them as well. I made some tasty cupcakes (using recipes from Just Jenn Recipes for Brown Sugar Cupcakes &...
Sugar Cookies: A Holiday Tradition
Each Christmas I get together with the ladies in my family and we spend an entire day baking sweet treats to share with friends and family. It’s always a special day, filled with laughter, flour, reminiscing, icing and love. This year we made buckeyes, oatmeal chocolate chip cranberry cookies (thank you Anna!), peppermint bark, oreo...
Easy Christmas Ornament Craft
Organizing crafts for classroom holiday parties doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. I did this super-simple Christmas Ornament Craft with Ella’s class for their Christmas party in 2nd grade and it was a huge hit. I gave them pipe cleaners and beads and told them to design their own ornaments. It was great because...
Making Handmade Christmas Cards with Kids Part TWO
Each year we make handmade Christmas Cards to send to our friends and family. In November I wrote about how I like to involve the kids in making our Christmas cards. It’s fun to collaborate with them on this creative endeavor. This year the kids decided they wanted to decorate ornaments to put on our...
Thanksgiving Eve
Max, Sam and Ottie are taste testing the stuffing, Henry is hanging out at my feet while I cook, Ella and Max designed a box for the tooth paste we are collecting for the Parish Kitchen, And they read some Thanksgiving stories. What are you and your family doing on Thanksgiving Eve?
Making Christmas Cards with Children
Almost every year I try to get our kids involved in the making of our Christmas cards. It’s a HUGE job, but it ends up being less stressful when we all work on them together. Does that make sense at all? How can it be LESS stressful with young hands assisting? Well it is. And...
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween from Queen Eleanor, Sir Samuel, Sir George and Henry the Dragon
