This is the second Christmas these kids have spent in these pajamas! I will miss them next year when they probably won’t fit anymore but I’ll have to get them new ones, there is just something so adorable about seeing all your children in matching pajamas on Christmas. Its the day after Christmas and Ethan [...]
Here is another one of our advent calendar activities! There are so many hand and footprint craft ideas and I think they’re fun so we did our family wreath and then we tried out something I thought up on my own: a family tree made of footprints. I had thought of this last year but [...]
Well I thought we’d try to make some of the gifts we give this year. Its not going as well as I’d hoped, I think they are on the young side for some of the things I had in mind. At first they liked making these ornaments but after making 1-2 they lost interest. I [...]
WIN SOME THING FROM MUSSELMAN’S: Musselman’s told me that they have a special treat to send my family for Christmas and one for us to give away! Not sure exactly what it will be but if you’re family likes applesauce just let me know in a comment and you could be the lucky winner! Contest [...]
One of our advent calendar activities was to make snowmen for each person in the family. The boys and John were out until mid afternoon today so Jamie and I started without them. I used to do similar snowman paintings when I was an art teacher but I decided to try something different and we [...]
*Use the coupon code “Fam09″ for 15% off your order but HURRY it expires 12/15/09! Marmalade Ink very kindly sent me 25 free photo cards to review and 25 to give away to one of you! I would never dream of sending anything but a photo card while my kids are little and I look [...]
Belcam sent us two of their Bath Therapy products to review and we have been very happy with them over the last month of use. Groovy Grape Body Wash & Shampoo is by far the best smelling kids’ bath product I have ever found, it is exactly like the grape bubble gum I loved as [...]
I did a post about homemade marshmallows already but I just tried a very different recipe yesterday and it was easy and I think I like it much better! Here is my old post using Tyler Florence’s recipe and my new recipe from Alton Brown. The big difference is that Tyler’s uses egg whites and [...]
I was planning on making an advent calendar with fun things to do the first 25 days of December but when I saw this post from the Artful Parent I decided that instead of the traditional advent with the little doors, I would make mine out of gingerbread paper dolls. I just did it really [...]
If you are having trouble thinking of what to get people and you want to give something personal, photo books are such a great idea. MyPublisher.com gave me a coupon code to use for a free book and it was a lot of fun to make and really easy (you download their free software and [...]
