I spent some time today looking for fun Valentine’s Day ideas and wanted to share with you my favorites. Now, we don’t usually go crazy on the 14th but I make sure the kids have cards to pass out to their classmates (some years with candy, some years without) and we try to do a…
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Decorating Christmas Cookies
My youngest has been struggling with some issues at school so I thought it might be fun to surprise all the kids with a simple set up to decorate Christmas cookies. Earlier in the day I baked up a batch of my favorite sugar cookies. Seriously, you MUST try these! They are soft and tasty…
gingerbread party how to’s
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! For our family that means hosting our annual gingerbread house decorating party. You may need to Click page 2 to see how it all went down! (sorry for the page thing…WordPress updated and there are some weird formatting issues! Also sorry if you received this post more…
Setting up a Hot Cocoa Bar
This year I decided to set out a hot cocoa bar. After we (finally!) installed a microwave above the stove, we were able to get rid of the countertop model. This freed up some valuable space! I figure during the year I will keep the toaster there, but for the month of December I thought…
Planning a Community Fall Festival
Autumn means fall festival time! Earlier this year I took on the role of Chairman of the Social Committee for our communities home owners association. Naturally this has been a learning experience…I’ve learned how useless most committee meetings are and have subsequently moved most of our “meetings” to an email or text forum. I’ve learned…
Easy Kids Bowling party
I was in California for my sons actual birthday, and while we did celebrate with family early (cake a few presents), he still wanted to have a bowling party with his friends.