Food, Crafts and Fun
I'm always looking for fun gift ideas for my kid's teachers or my co-workers. This one is adorable. And the best part? I didn't even have to make it. It was on my desk when I came to school (work) this morning. What a treat! You can fill it with whatever you would like. Customize it if you know what kinds of candy they like or even coordinate colored candy. I'm thinking red and green for Christmas and even orange and black for Halloween. … [Continue reading...]
These just might be my new favorite cookies! My friend said "these are the best cookies I've had in my entire life!" Seriously! She said that. They have a slight crisp around the edges and are super soft in the middle. Just they way I like my cookies. The white chocolate also adds the perfect touch. We also made these for Valentine's Day last year. (And every other holiday!) Ginger cookies seem like the perfect Holiday cookie. They spices scream Christmas! These cookies have all … [Continue reading...]
Show of hands… who’s ready for Christmas? I don’t mean ready, ready. I mean ready for the fun to begin? I am! I love, love, love Christmas time. But before we get to Christmas we have to have Thanksgiving. I don’t really love this holiday. I love the time. My kids and I go to […]
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Last year both of my kids were in middle school. Between the two of them, they had 12 teachers. Twelve! Needless to say, Teacher Appreciation Week was a tad stressful for us, trying to come up with ideas that were cute but didn’t break the bank. I thought this idea was perfect! You could make […]
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I am always looking for great teacher gift ideas to give to my kid’s teachers and my co-workers. I believe that it’s important to say thanks to the people who are teaching our children. Don’t you? Teacher Appreciation Week begins May 7th. Have you thought about gift ideas yet? I saw this idea over on […]
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I’m kind of in love with the magazine Family Fun. For years it’s been delivered to my door and I love looking through all the crafts and recipes. As my kids get older I’m finding most of the crafts are for younger kids, but the recipes? I don’t care how old my kids are. Fun […]
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Have you ever heard of Seafoam Candy? It seems like a beach thing here in Oregon. Everytime we go to the beach and to the candy store, we buy Seafoam. It’s delicious and crunchy and, if made right, melts in your mouth. We decided we wanted to give it a try and I’m super glad […]
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Chocolate, peanut butter and butterscotch makes this dessert one of our favorites! This recipe is similar to the Chex Scotcharoos we made a while back. We decided to use crispy cereal rather than Chex cereal and we dipped them in the chocolate mixture. (You can never have too much chocolate. Am I right?!) We found […]
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We made these delicious cookies at Christmas tine but I forgot to post about them. Oops. They were so good and everyone loved them. So why not change the sprinkles and make them for Valentine’s Day. Right? I mean really, any excuse to make cookies! These cookies are surprisingly delicious. And by surprisingly I mean, people […]
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Chips and Dips are one of my weaknesses. They are comfort food to me and if I let myself, I could eat them everyday for lunch or dinner. I don’t, of course. That would be crazy. But sometimes I wish I could. A co-worker brought this delicious dip to one of our potlucks and I […]
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I think I should just rename my blog “All the ideas I steal from Family Fun”. Seriously. Because whenever we get the magazine we all look through it and say “Oh, we have to make that!” about a million times. This was no exception. We had to make this, of course. I mean really… hot […]
I’m not much of a prankster. It’s not that I don’t think they’re funny. I just don’t do them. Well, not a lot at least =o) So for me, April Fools Day isn’t really a big deal. But it’s like I said in my St. Patrick’s Day post, “now that I’m a Mom I have […]
I’ve decided that I’m a little bored with cooking. I make the same basic things for dinners and I’m getting tired of it. Dinner should be fun, right? So that’s our new theme for the summer. Fun food! So we bought a couple of fun kid’s cookbooks. This is the first thing we made – […]
Have you ever seen these things? They are egg molds? Egg what??? Egg molds! I saw them awhile ago and have been wanting to get them to try them out and here they are. Pretty cool looking aren’t they? You’re probably wondering why in the world anyone would want these things though, right? Well, I […]
My daughter saw these wonderful looking treats in her Fancy Nancy Tea Parties book. (Did I mention we LOVE Fancy Nancy?!) Her books are stupendous (that’s fancy for great!) I did an earlier post from this book as well. Click here to see it. So Ellie saw these and said to me “oh, let’s make […]
I love Halloween! Have I mentioned that? Yep, love it! And how could I not when this is what decorates my kitchen? Cool, right?! Dirty Q-Tips! Ha! I saw these over on Pinterest too. Along with the Bloody Band-Aid Cookies that we made. It originally came from Katherine Marie Photography. Super simple but the […]
This may not look like much but let me tell you… it is delicious! My kids and I love root beer floats and have seen a lot of homemade popsicles out there that claim to be rootbeer floats, but they are imposters. Thanks to Almost Unschoolers for this amazing find because here is a real […]
Meatloaf and mashed potatoes are comfort food to me. I love them! My kids love them! And I love that my kids love them! But I wanted to kid it up a little. (We eat meatloaf a lot.) So I made my regular meatloaf. It’s nothing uber fancy. I buy the spice packet at the […]