Our family chili recipe is one of my go-to recipes for a game day crowd, fall day or chili cook-off. Legendary Vollmer Chili Football season always makes me want cool weather and comfort food. Living in San Diego, we don’t get cool weather until the end of football season so comfort food will have to…
The Ultimate Guide to Halloween Activities
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…
Halloween Rice Krispie Treats Everyone Will Love
This post has been updated with some pro-tips that I’ve learned after making these for a few years. We love going to The Yard House. My husband and I love the food and beer selection, the girls love the special treats that come with the kids meal. I decided to recreate their recipe but make…
How to make a unique DIY Pine Cone Halloween Costume
Editor’s note: This is one of our most popular posts so we’ve updated it recently. When my 3-year-old and I were talking about what she wanted to be for Halloween this year, we scrolled through Amazon looking at all the costumes. She loved the Paw Patrol ones, thought the Batgirl costume was pretty cool but then…
7 Things to Know Before You Use Peel and Stick Wallpaper
I decided to give our laundry room a facelift and wanted to do something bold on the walls. I’ve been hearing a ton about peel and stick wallpaper and found a pattern that I loved. The reviews were good. The Youtube videos looked easy enough. So I decided to give it a try, this is…
Talking about diversity with our kids
I had originally written this post about diversity in November 2017 but given all that has happened after the death of George Floyd, I thought it would be appropriate to update this post with additional links and resources for those of us who are working hard to raise white children who are actively anti-racist. Are…