Day three of our activity advent calendar called for making plates from peppermint candies. I’d seen several tutorials around on Pinterest, and it seemed easy enough. Bake at 350* for 8 minutes and allow to cool. It was quite easy, and the kids had a blast. We baked ours in spring form pans to help […]
Hands down, this has been the most awesome Christmastime, and it’s only beginning. My five year old has been unbelievably excited about EVERYTHING Christmas related, from our nativity sets, to the lights, to Elvis (our elf on the shelf), to making decorations and now to our activity Advent Calendar. This kid’s spirit is positively infectious. […]
For the last few years, my husband and I have steadily moved away from store bought gifts at Christmas and towards hand made gifts. This year will be no different. We have a few store bought things (mainly for each other and the kiddos in our lives, plus a few off the wall gifts, like […]
The tree is up, the decorations are out (the ones that managed to survive our cellar flooding last year, anyway), Christmas crafts have commenced and the shopping is actually really close to being done. Wow. And it’s not even December! So, for those of you who don’t know me well, allow me to let you […]
Nurse on the Run 