A lifetime ago, I was a nanny. For eight years, I would spend my summers with another family, a family I loved as if they were my own. I’d arrive just before breakfast and leave just after dinner, five or six days per week. I spent my days immersed in the land of childhood. We’d…
A Simple Gingerbread Hack
One of my favorite holiday traditions is decorating gingerbread houses together. Let me ask you… what is the best part about making gingerbread houses? Is it the prepping of the gingerbread, the baking, the cutting and sizing and construction? Believe me, I love gingerbread just as much as the next guy. In fact, we will be…
DIY Marbleized Greeting Cards
Whether you are ready for it or not, we are about to enter the holiday season. There will be gifts to give and gifts to receive, holiday cards exchanged, and thank you notes to write. Can we stop there for a second and talk about how expensive greeting cards have become? And, quite honestly, most of…
Apples to Apples: Laughter Guaranteed
Apples to Apples: Laughter Guaranteed! Apples to Apples is the well-known, award-winning, and very much loved game of crazy combinations that is guaranteed to have your family laughing. The wonderful thing about Apples to Apples, besides the laughter, is that you can play this game immediately. It’s that easy. Each player is dealt a hand of red…
Teaching Children About Emotions Through Play {Plus a game tutorial!}
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #InsideOutEmotions #CollectiveBias As a school psychologist and mom to three little people, I think it is extremely important for children to learn to identify, understand, communicate, and manage their emotions. These are important life skills! When Disney’s Inside Out was…
Quoridor: Easy to Learn, Challenging to Play
Quoridor is beautiful, much like another family favorite of ours from the same company, with sturdy wooden playing pieces and game board. Do you know what I love about this award-winning game? Quoridor one of those games that takes about 5-10 minutes to explain and yet it remains challenging and fun.
