These cozy candles make the perfect addition to your holiday and winter decor, and they'd make great gifts as well. Truth: Everything in me wants to suggest making these for teachers, but I have a feeling that teachers receive as many candles as they do mugs and ornaments, so a practical gift like an office…
The following post is from Myra of My Blessed Life: With Thanksgiving just past, Christmas is just beginning to peek out at my house. Creating simple decor is especially fun this time of year. I whipped up a Christmas jingle bell door hanger that can be used on the front door or any interior door.…
The following post is from Emily of Live Renewed: A new baby's skin is so soft, and delicate, and precious. And, as parents, we want to do everything we can to keep it that way. Unfortunately, many of the conventional and name brand baby care products contain ingredients that we wouldn't want to put on…
Last year, in an attempt to make the days leading up to Christmas special and memorable for our kids, we did our own "12 Days of Christmas" countdown. It's a way for me to make sure that we actually fit in all of our fun activities and traditions since I am able to take off…
The following post is from Kristina of Toddler Approved: Earlier this year I noticed some beautiful CD suncatchers shining in the windows at my son's school. I loved watching how the colors danced around and made the windows look so magical. I decided that we needed to use the idea and create some festive Christmas decorations for…
This coming weekend, my friend Annette and I are partnering with Glad to host a Christmas Cookie Swap to benefit Cookies for Kids' Cancer, which raises money to support research for new and improved therapies for pediatric cancer. I'll share more about our cookie swap next week, but in the meantime, I wanted to share…
Add some extra fun to your holiday season with these free printable activities for kids. From advent calendars to homemade cards to the cutest printable nativity set you ever did see, there's plenty to choose from: 1. Jesse Tree Ornaments 2. Handprint Calendar 3. Advent Chain 4 .Paper Nativity Set 5. Random Acts of Kindness…
We always give the girls a new loofah in their stocking each Christmas, but I couldn't resist making these soap pockets for this year instead (especially since our new puppy loves to find and destroy loofahs!). Although it's too late for this year, these would also make a great addition to an Operation Christmas…
When the Genda family shared their advent wreath with us a few weeks ago, Barb also shared her eggnog recipe, with the promise that we would love it! I had been hoping to share a homemade eggnog recipe as part of this year's series anyway, so I asked her if I could share hers, and…
Each week at our Classical Conversations homeschool group, we have a "family presentation," and one of the families in our group shares a little bit about themselves -- their heritage, a hobby they enjoy, a trip they've taken, etc. It's really a fun way to learn all kinds of interesting things, and it's one of…