Seasons/Holidays Archive

Come see what our Christmas Elf has been up to THIS week … Day 15:  Caught up in the Garland on the staircase Day 16: Being Naughty … Caught sneaking cookies … and trapped in the box! Day 17:  Being Nice

If you haven’t been following along, my son is an avid Angry Birds fan.  He’s made videos, paintings, and even dressed as the red bird for Halloween. So, having a Angry Bird themed Christmas tree for his room seemed to just

Well, Brief Houser (our Christmas Elf) has been very busy this week.  If you haven’t checked out the first week of his return this year, check out last week’s post … Our Elf, Week One, 2011.  This week he’s been a

In 1998 my mom got me a Christmas Journal to record each Christmas. I LOVE THIS BOOK.  I am using it now to prepare for Christmas for the 13th year.  It is EXTREMELY helpful to keep track of Christmas card and

Following with my hopes to blog this month about great books and toys for kids, here are 24 must-have Christmas books … The 12 Bugs of Christmas, by David A. Carter Jingle Bugs, by David A. Carter Santa’s Magic Gifts, by

Our family moved in October to a new home and we still have many painting projects to finish.  Our close friends were displaced from their home last May due to burst pipes and are just now able to begin painting their

Our Christmas Elf is named Brief Houser.  He was named by my son (now 5) because the elf only visits our “house” for a “brief” time.  Brief Houser came to us in 2008 and it has been a pleasure to have

Most of us know that the true meaning of the holiday season is to give and appreciate all that we have … but what does that really mean?  What does it mean to you? About a year ago, I heard about

Have any of those fun rubber ducks laying around?  We have several sets … including Halloween and Thanksgiving ones.  And other than them being a cute table decoration and/or give away at a party, we invented a fun, easy game with

Here’s a collection of Fall crafts for preschoolers that my kids have done!  Those teachers have had some wonderful ideas! Henry’s NOvember book …

I was looking for a fun and simple way to include the kids in sending out some Thanksgiving cards this year and came across this idea The Chocolate Muffin Tree’s coffee filter turkey cards.  We used cardstock paper folded in half for

This project was TONS of fun … and pretty simple for the kids to create TRULY beautiful fall art.  We used small canvas in which I drew a leaf with pencil: I then took gel glue and traced over the pencil