Category: Spring Celebrations

This Handprint Lily Craft is the perfect Mother’s Day craft and gift from the kids.  It looks complicated and does take a little time, but I’m confident even the most craft-deficient dad or grandparent can …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Easter is kind of a weird holiday for our family.  We haven’t yet established what the holiday is for us.  We aren’t the go-to-church-for-the-resurection-of-Christ type people, but we aren’t the “The Easter Bunny’s coming!” type …

My regular readers will undoubtedly know my family and I lived in Dublin, Ireland for a few years.  You’ll also know we really liked living there and miss it a lot since we returned to …