Share your favorite Thanksgiving recipes with friends using these cute printable Thanksgiving Recipe Cards Thanksgiving gatherings are going to look a little bit different this year due to Covid restrictions. Most of us aren’t going to be able to get together with family and friends for Thanksgiving dinner as we normally do. One of my…
Print out these fun Halloween coupons for your kids to give them experience gifts this Halloween. Coupons are always a fun way to give gifts to your kids without contributing to extra clutter. Or, in the case of Halloween, without giving them even more sugar. I have been giving these type of coupons to my…
Looking for a valentine to go with a standard package of gum? Try these two: “Valentine, I “chews” you” and “You are EXTRA sweet” These printable valentines to go with chewing gum are super easy to put together—just print them out and stick them to a standard package of gum. Gum is a quick and…
Follow the Biblical events of Easter week with your family using these free Holy Week printables I’ve been thinking for a while now that I don’t really know the Biblical events leading up to Easter that well. I know the basics—The triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, the Last Supper, Jesus’ trial and crucifixion,…
A couple years ago, I started putting service ideas in our advent calendar instead of candy. I wasn’t sure how my girls would like that since they LOVED fighting over a single piece of chocolate every morning, but it’s turned out pretty well. Now they look forward to trying to do the simple service they…
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…
St. Patrick’s Day is mostly an overlooked holiday at our house. Sure, the kids might wear green to school so they don’t get pinched, but I have never made any kind of big deal over the holiday. Once, my husband and I even went to Chicago over St. Patrick’s Day weekend and we just had…
Girls always need new hair ties. Always. At least, my girls do! I’m not sure if they all end up broken, borrowed by others, or in some sort of lost hair elastic twilight zone, but I feel like I have bought thousands of them in just the past year! Needless to say, hair ties are…
At the end of January, I generally go on a quick Valentine’s Day shopping spree for my girls. I look for small, useful items that I know will appeal to tween/teen girls that I can put into their Valentine’s Mailboxes. Part of the tradition is making a little card to go with the little gift….
I give cute valentine socks to my girls for Valentine’s Day every single year. In the past I’ve always used the saying “You Knock My Socks Off!” but this year I felt bored of it. I thought about it for a while and finally came up with “We Make a Great PAIR!” I just love…
When I do these Valentine printables for my kids every year, I hate to give them gifts that are just going to add to the clutter. I like to give them things that are practical that I know they will use. So, I generally wander around the store and find things that are useful that…
It’s February 1st, and at our house, that means we break out our traditional Valentine Mailboxes. A few years ago I purchased some cute mini-mailboxes and a new tradition was born—every day from February 1-13, the girls get a small gift from me in their mailbox. I put the flag up when I fill it so…