Category: Time to Celebrate

Kids’ Spring Lamb Handprint Craft

I love doing handprint crafts my kids, especially for the holidays. It’s a great way to decorate our house for each holiday but it also gives us keepsakes to see how they’ve grown. And even …

An Easter Craft a Day: #2

Yesterday Sugarplum made coffee filter butterflies.  This craft is so easy, it’s ridiculous! Supplies needed: Coffee filter, watercolors, pipecleaner, clothespin. I only have cone shaped coffee filters so I cut the crimped part off and …

An Easter Craft a Day: #1

Sugarplum and I had so much fun at our Valentine’s Party doing crafts with friends and enjoying yummy treats and the whole family enjoyed our St. Patrick’s Day party!  I had hoped to do another …

Budapest, Hungary

We have taken our girls many places and there are places they remember, a lot that they don’t and a few things they still talk about.  One of Honeybun’s favorite things to share about our …

Better Easter Baskets

It’s that time of year again, when Easter is starting to creep up on us and I am so excited!  Even though my family isn’t religious, Easter has always been a special family holiday to …

Celebrating our Time in Ireland

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  (or Paddy’s Day, but as has been made blatantly clear around Facebook this year, don’t you dare call it “Patty’s” day!)  Last year, I shared my experience of St. Patrick’s Day …

St. Patrick’s Day Crafts

Part of our St. Patrick’s Day party plan this weekend was crafts for the kids.  Unfortunately we didn’t get to do much crafting between swimming and tadpole chasing time and dinner but since I had …

A St. Patrick’s Day Feast

This weekend we had an early St. Patrick’s Day party with a few families we’re close with.  The first Christmas we were back I wanted to do an “Irish Coffee” dinner but we didn’t plan …
A 5-year-old take on the Presidents

A 5-year-old take on the Presidents

To celebrate President’s Day, here are Hoeybun’s thoughts on the presidents: Abraham Lincoln: He was a very nice president. He used to say “Four score and seven years ago…” He had a tall hat. He …

Valentine’s Day Crafts

In addition to the delicious Valentine’s Day Goodies we had at our Valentine’s party yesterday, I also got Sugarplum back in her Halloween costume (which I vowed to do months ago after I was Done and Down).  She …