My husband loves scary movies. If he could have his perfect Halloween wish, it would be to stay home with all the lights out watching really scary shows all night long. Unfortunately for him, I don’t like watching scary movies – they give me nightmares and keep me pondering on them for far too long. So in […]
Favorite Halloween Books
One of our favorite Halloween traditions is to read books…lots of books. Every year, the kids get a new Halloween book to add to our collection. These are a few of our favorites. Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino Where is Baby’s Pumpkin? by Karn Katz The Night Before Halloween by Natasha Wing The Runaway […]
Boo to the “Boo”
Every once in a while a friend or relative comments on what a “fun” mom I am. Never my children – mind you – only people who don’t actually live with me say such crazy things! And to some extent, it’s kind of true. I like fun traditions with the kids. But there is one […]
Halloween Countdown
Every year, we have a tradition to countdown the days to Halloween with activities and little treats. We’ve tried different countdown calendars over the years and finally settled on one that works perfectly for us. The setup starts with a simple paper chain. I tape or glue date stickers on each chain (one for each child). The […]
Chocolate & Peppermint Bread
Each year, it seems our neighbor/friend gift list gets longer and longer. I suppose it comes naturally with living somewhere for a while. You make more friends and acquantances over time. The problem is that we have a fairly limited budget for Christmas, so after making our list, I figured out that we could spend […]
Tags
It has kind of become an annual tradition with the kids to make our own gift tags. Last year’s were so fun to make, I didn’t know what we would do this year. Luckily, my Christmas present this year is a Cricut machine (bought on deep discount on Black Friday). So I broke out my […]
Christmas ornaments
Every year I try to get the kids to help make an ornament for the Christmas tree, and every year I do all the work. So this year, I tried to find something that they could at least partially help with. I can’t remember where I saw this idea, but it looked easy enough for […]
Christmas Activities
Each year for our advent, I put together a list of activities to do with the kids. Here’s this year’s plan: 1 Get out and play with Little People Nativity set 2 Go see Santa & play at the mall 3 Make decorations for tree 4 Make candy covered Christmas trees (out of sugar cones/icing) […]
National holiday
Today is a little holiday {hardly} known as “Make Your Bed Day“…a holiday we obviously don’t observe. We will, however, be celebrating tomorrow’s holiday: “Chocolate Milkshake Day“. Yep – that’s one we never miss!
Christmas Crafts
If you are seeing this message on top – you aren’t logged in. Most entries in this blog are limited to registered users. Please login to view entire site. Days 3 and 4 of our Advent Activities were to make some crafty stuff. On the 3rd, we made some Christmas tags out of cardstock and […]