It’s official!  We’re home from our week long vacation and now it’s time to hit the ground running!  I have so many things that I need to do.  It was nice to get away from the “To Do” list, but now it is time to get serious!  There are clothes to wash, meals to plan, bags to unpack, presents to wrap, etc., etc.  I’m sure you know what I’m talking

Today is the last day of our one week vacation in Branson, MO.  It is bittersweet to make this time come to an end. It seems that the older I get, the faster life goes!  We’ve had lots of time to shop for Christmas, sleep, rest, play games, swim, etc.  Last night we had a pizza party game night where the older kids and us parents stayed up until 1:30

Today’s craft uses baby food jars.  I had collected so many of them after my last baby that I didn’t know what to do with them all!  I finally got rid of most of them, but kept a select few on hand in case I ran into the right thing to do with them.  I was super happy when I came across this craft to do!  If you live near

It is already Day 15 of 25 days of Easy Christmas Crafts for Children!  How are you doing on your Christmas crafting?  Are you doing any Christmas baking, too?  We have almost gotten all of our Christmas shopping completed and I hope to start wrapping it all up this weekend!  I wrapped 2 presents for each child last week and showed my 2 year old which one belonged to her.

Welcome back to my series, 25 Days of Easy Christmas Crafts for Children.  Today’s craft, my kids thought, was totally cool!  We bought our little jingle bells at the Dollar Tree, cut them apart and let them decorate their section of egg carton to their heart’s content.  My 6 year old kept begging to make another one!  Now on to the more precise directions….. Day 14 Egg Carton Bells   

    Wow, here we are already at Day 13 in my series, “25 Days of Easy Christmas Crafts for Children”.  This Christmas season is flying by!  I hope you’re enjoying the Christmas preparations that you have undertaken so far!  We tried something new this year by taking a December vacation.  We really enjoyed taking a step back and slowing down a bit!  I hope you’re remembering to step back

Welcome back to my series, “25 Days of Easy Christmas Crafts for Children”.  If you haven’t yet and would like to subscribe to my blog via email or in your blog reader, you will receive my e-book for free.  In the book, you can get all 25 days of these crafts at once along with a supplies list and a few templates to make some of the crafts a bit

  Welcome back to my series, 25 Days of Easy Christmas Crafts for Children.  Are you ready for an extra easy one for the weekend?  It just involves coffee filters and scissors!    Day 11 Snowflakes Supplies: Coffee Filters Scissors Directions:  Fold your coffee filters in quarters and make a few small cuts.  Fold again and make a few more.  You can even fold one more time and make some more

Welcome back to my series, 25 Days of Easy Christmas Crafts for children!  I bet you ALL have lots of empty toilet paper rolls.  I wish there was more we could do with these things!!  At least today, we have a reason to use a couple AND we get to sing and dance to some Christmas music.  How fun!!     Day 10 Christmas Music Shakers Supplies: Toilet Paper Rolls

It’s that time during the Christmas season where I pull out my stash of gifts and figure out who else I need to buy for.  Since we’re going on a little mini vacation soon, I figured that I needed to get my list ready so that we could finish up our shopping while we’re away.  After all, a good part of the activities on our trip will be the shopping!  I’m

      Welcome back to my series, 25 Days of Easy Christmas Crafts for Children! Have you been trying many of these crafts yet?  I know I’ve heard from a few of you who have been enjoying them.  I’d love to hear from more of you!     Today’s craft is nice because it’s something you can use on all of your presents.  We all love crafts that have