I forgot to post this last Saturday...but here it is today: November Holidays!!! (There's more to November than just turkey!) November: 10th:  Sesame Street Day, Forget-Me-Not Day, Area Code Day 11th:  Veteran's Day, Origami Day 12th: 13th:  World Kindness Day 14th:  National Pickle Day, National American Teddy Bear Day, International Girls Day 15th:  Clean Your Refrigerator Day, National Bundt Pan Day, National Day of Play, Guiness World Record Day, I Love the Write Day 16th:  Button ... View the Post

Yesterday I was writing all the crazy October holidays down on our family calendar and I realized---I haven't posted my usual monthly post about random holidays for like 2 months! That is so unlike me. Wow.  Weird. Anyway...it's back and ready to go...so here it is: The list of random October holidays, by date, and in order. (And as always, I swear I'm not making any of them up!) 1.  World Vegetarian Day, National Lace Day 2.  Name Your Car Day, International Day of Non-Violence, World Farm ... View the Post

It's time for another monthly installment of "Every day is a Celebration".  Here are your holidays for the month of May...starting with today! 4th:  Star Wars Day (May the 4th Be With You!), International Firefighters Day, International Respect for Chickens Day, National Scrapbooking Day 5th:  Cinco de Mayo, National Hoagie Day, Oyster Day, World Laughter Day, Totally Chipotle Day 6th:  Beverage Day, No Diet Day, National Nurses Day 7th:  National Teachers Day, Pulitzer Prize Birthday 8th:  ... View the Post

I have two easy and last minute valentines if you still need some in time for Thursday.  I am usually a last minute girl myself, but this year I had a seven-year-old who was UBER-excited to make her valentines so we did ours this last weekend. For our girl Valentine, we found these cute felt hearts at Hobby Lobby and used glue dots to put them on jumbo paperclips to make cute felt bookmarks for her classmates.  It was an easy project and Hannie could do the whole thing herself--which she was ... View the Post

This is one of the games that Gracie will be playing this week at preschool. It's simple, just put the broken hearts back together again matching the lower and upper case letters. And it's easy to make just print out the templates that I made onto red or pink paper. (You can download them from  HERE, HERE, and HERE---They are in 3 different places because there are 3 different sheets)  Then cut them out.  (Cut INSIDE the line of the heart so you won't see the template line once your heart is ... View the Post