It’s a CELEBRATION!!

May 15th – the BEST holiday ever!  Today is National Chocolate Chip Day
(YES! I love these people!) 
But what to make?!  Traditional Chocolate Chip Cookies?  Oh, SO good.  Especially right out of the oven. 
Or Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins.  Oh, MY GOODNESS.  I cheat (Shhh…) .  I make them from a mix and they are SO YUMMY!
Maybe Magic [...]

Eggstraordinary things to do for Easter!

Are you just a tad bored with coloring eggs in the traditional pink, yellow and blue solid colors?  They’re pretty, but it’s the same every year.  But you may even have things in your home that would shake things up a bit.  Here are some of my favorite ideas from Family Fun Magazine. They’re easy [...]

Switchin’ it up OR ….why we need a guard turkey.

Let’s say you have older children and Christmas is coming.  Let’s say some of those children start hinting really early at things they’d love to see under the tree (Heh.. and some of those things are pretty dang expensive).  Let’s say you also start to notice that those same children are arguing more and more.  [...]

It’s beginning to feel a lot like…

Yes, indeed, it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.  I love to make things for Christmas.  Ornaments are my favorite thing to make (and I’ve given some interesting ones) but there are so many things you can make as gifts.  But you have to start a little earlier than Oooohhh, December 15th. 
Sometimes the hard [...]