Looking for a new family board game this holiday season? Check out these fun games that are perfect for all ages to play together! Like many families, it is one of our Christmas traditions to put a new family game under the tree each year. We look forward to playing the new game together later…
Looking for a way to play games with family and friends who are far away? Try these board games that can easily be played over FaceTime. Right now, the whole country is basically in quarantine, or practicing social distancing to some degree, due to COVID-19. As a result, even the most introverted of us are…
Try this fun family tradition on Christmas Adam this year! Christmas Adam is the day before Christmas Eve. Unless it falls on a weekend, my girls are usually in school on December 23. Because of this, the evening of Christmas Adam has always seemed kind of like the first day we are able to start…
Is it cheaper to make slime using ingredients bought at the dollar store? We compared prices and slime output and found out for sure. The slime rage has taken over my home, as it has the homes of tweens and teens everywhere. It started with watching slime videos online but quickly grew into using any…
This fun April Fools Day dinner activity will make the whole family laugh! I’m not a big prankster on April Fools Day—or any other day for that matter. But I still wanted to find a fun way to celebrate April Fools Day with my kids. I remembered that I had done these mystery dinners at…
Play the M&M gratitude game around your Thanksgiving table and focus on your blessings this holiday! When I was growing up, one of our Thanksgiving family traditions was to go around the table during dinner and say what we were grateful for. I have tried to continue that tradition with my own kids in various…
A back-to-school feast and family theme is a great way to kick off the school year for your kids. This tradition is something they look forward to every year and helps them to be excited to go back to school. My girls went back to school yesterday. My husband is taking a sabbatical this semester,…
Summer is a great time for kids to get off their screens and get outside or do other activities. Here are 9 easy screen-free activities to do with your kids this summer. Like many parents, I’m all about limiting the screen time at my house. While a little bit of screen time is absolutely fine—even…
Want to make sure your kids aren’t bored on your next road trip? Try making them vacation journals to document their memories—it’s a super fun idea for long road trips! I love taking road trips with my family. Some of my very favorite family memories were made in the car in the middle of nowhere…
How to play the candy bar game. If you’re looking for fun group games with candy, this is the best one! It’s fast moving, fun, and everybody loves it! Plus—you get lots of candy! I’m always looking for easy and fun games to play at birthday parties for my kids. Especially now that I’ve got…
I absolutely love setting goals for the new year. It’s a time that’s full of self-reflection and optimism for me. Even though I have plenty of experience with totally failing at my new year’s resolutions, I have also been very successful with them. Depends on the year, and the goal, I suppose! I always want…
Some days, I worry that my children are never going to get along. So much bickering. So much unwillingness to share. So much eye-rolling. And so much more bickering. But then I remember that my brothers and bickered and refused to share and rolled our eyes and bickered some more. All the time. My poor…