While these are classic Christmas cookies, I always include some chocolate chip cookies. Swap out the chocolate chips for red and green M&Ms, and it’s an instant holiday classic. These Christmas cookie recipes make the perfect gift, either by themselves or with something else. I have used both these cookie boxes and the traditional cookie…
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…
This tradition started around Christmas time with my daughters. I will be the first to admit that I get a little carried away at Christmas. The music, the magic, the festiveness, I love it all. Each weekend is packed with some holiday activity. However, it’s really important to us as parents that the Christmas season…
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…
There are a lot of things that you think you know when you have your second child. You know what labor, delivery, and recovery will be like. You know about all the things that no one talks about – I’m looking at you, hemorrhoids. You’ve been through teething and the introduction of foods. All those…