If you’ve never played white elephant, here’s the whole game: everyone brings a wrapped gift, and you take turns either opening a new one or stealing one that’s already unwrapped. Which means your gift has exactly two possible fates. It gets fought over and stolen three times — or it sits there, unloved, and some…
For the last 10 years, we’ve thrown a Christmas party for our friends and their kids. A decade is long enough to figure out what actually keeps a room full of sugared-up five-year-olds happy — and what just looks good on Pinterest and falls apart by the second guest. So here’s the real list: the…
I’ve always loved to create personalized Christmas handprint art with my kids. Each year, when I unpack our Christmas decorations, it’s always fun to see how small they were and how their creativity has grown through the years. Handprint Christmas Craft Round-Up I compiled this roundup of my favorite ideas for hand-and-footprint crafts you can…
When my oldest daughter was three, we talked about what she wanted to be for Halloween. We scrolled through Amazon looking at all the costumes. She loved the Paw Patrol ones and thought the Batgirl costume was pretty cool, but then told me, “No, no, no, I want to be a pine cone for Halloween”….
Updated for 2020: LEGOLAND won’t be able to do the big Brick or Treat like they have in the past but they have a smaller, COVID friendly event going on this year. We are excited to check it out. In the meantime, I’ve put together an Ultimate Guide to Halloween Activities that has you covered…
Halloween is going to be more of a Pandem-O-Ween this year with communities canceling trick or treating and people doing their best to remain socially distant. Sure, our kids can’t trudge around the neighborhood filling up sleeping bags full of candy but they can still have a great time. I rounded up some amazing ideas…