It’s so easy to go overboard when buying for your kid’s Easter basket – there are SO many cute things out there! I have a hard time not adding every bunny thing I see to cart… so I came up with an easy way to not overbuy for their baskets. Here’s my Easter basket equation…
Non Food and Non Candy Classroom Valentine Ideas
I knew non-candy Valentines for classroom Valentine’s Day exchanges was a thing but my daughter’s preschool upped the ante by asking that any Valentine given has no food. Gone are my dreams of “you’re a cutie” Valentine cards with a little tangerine attached, Goldfish crackers adorned with “I’m so glad you’re in my school”. Time to…
Christmas Card Reveal + Family Christmas Pictures Inspo + Outfit Ideas
YOU helped me pick my Christmas cards and I LOVE the way they turned out! This is the design you picked. We did a quick mini session of family Christmas pictures at a local Christmas tree farm with the kids and the puppy and I couldn’t be happier with the final product. Take a peek: Here’s…
How to Make Your Home Smell Like Christmas
There are certain scents that just bring back memories; for me, Christmas = the smell of a freshly cut Christmas tree. Growing up, I had a real tree each year and remember the feel of the needles, watering the tree, and the delicious scent from our tree. My husband had a “no-tree” rule before we…
Cheese Platter 101: How to Make the Perfect Cheese Board
If you know me IRL, you know that cheese is one of my favorite food groups. With two kids and a puppy running around, I don’t have time to be busy in the kitchen when we have people over for the holidays. Enter the easiest app around: the cheese board. I have some easy tips…
How to Start Holiday Traditions with Toddlers
Thanks to Gymboree for sponsoring this post. Sponsors allow me to keep sharing cool stuff with you 🙂 The holidays can be a time of major stress for moms of little ones: over-committed, over-scheduled, just over it. Once you have kids, the holidays kind of shift and what was best for everyone else comes second to…
Christmas Advent Calendar Activities You’ll Actually Want to Do
This is our first year with a Christmas advent calendar because I plan to hold Santa coming over my kids’ heads for every single day in December and a visual reminder works best, ya know?! KIDDING. But seriously, I loved counting down the days until Christmas every year as a kid and my kids are…
Holiday Card Hacks: How to Send Christmas Cards
It’s that time of year! Yes, time to start thinking about sending Christmas cards. You don’t have to deck your halls just yet but this is one piece of the holiday season that you need to think about in November. To make it a little sweeter, I partnered with Minted so you can enter to win…
How to Write Your Kid a Birthday Letter Each Year: To Cooper on Your Second Birthday
My kids don’t have baby books. But I’m not a bad mom. I keep a private Tumblr blog for them full of almost every video, picture and milestone they reach, but it isn’t printed out neatly for them to thumb through one day and say, “oh, I said ‘da-da’ at 9 months”. They’re going to…
Mother’s Day Gift Guide – My Wishlist
Celebrating Mother’s Day as a young mom is tricky. Wonderful, but tricky. Why? Fortunately, I still have a Mom and Mother-in-Law who are healthy, present and deserve to be celebrated on Mother’s Day, too. They’ve been moms (and thus, have dealt with exponentially more shit, right?!) much longer than I have and definitely deserve to…
