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One of my favorite parts of owning this website is my readers and when readers send me emails with their favorite games and traditions they do with their own families. This particular idea, actually the turkey hunt version of it, was sent in by one of my readers before Thanksgiving, and I love it so much I’ve turned it into a reindeer hunt too! There are three different variations of the game depending on what age is playing, but they can really all three be fun for all ages if you just hide the reindeer appropriately!...

When I told my son school was cancelled for the rest of the year, his first reaction was but mom, I won’t get to celebrate my birthday at school. I’ll have to celebrate in second grade. My heart broke. Not only does he not get to celebrate his birthday at school and get all the special fun that comes with it, but he also doesn’t get to have the big birthday party that we’d literally just planned out a week ago....

You know the best part of an Olive Garden meal (I mean other than than the never ending soup, salad, and breadsticks…oh and the fettuccine alfredo)? When you get the huge pile of Andes Mints at the end of the meal. There’s just something perfect about the combination of chocolate and mint flavor in the mints. It’s not too minty and it’s not too chocolatey. These cookies are like the mints at the end of an Olive Garden meal – the perfect combo of chocolate and mint wrapped in one delicious treat....

This past weekend my family took a quick road trip to San Antonio! It was the first road trip we’ve done in a while with my 4-year-old, and I wanted to share some of the road trip tips I learned from our experiences. It’s actually the first one since our road trip from Dallas to Austin, and I’m so glad we brought all of these road trip essentials! We’re typically pack up and go travel people – totally last minute travelers, so I wrote this post for myself to keep handy for those times!...

Some of the items in this post were provided to us to try out for free or were sponsored. All opinions are 100% honest and my own. I don’t know about your kids but my kids don’t need a thing. No more toys, no more clothes, nothing. They have everything they could ever need and more. So this year instead of getting a bunch of things to open (hello Nintendo Switch games), I bought my 6-year-old this Star Wars Lego set (hello Black Friday sales) and made him this monthly adventure box full of experience gifts instead of toys....

I just got back from a trip to check out all of the food at this year’s Epcot Food and Wine Festival (plus the brand new Space 220 restaurant!!!!), and I’m so excited to share all of my favorites with you! I’ve also included my reviews and photos from previous years for dishes that were on previous menus! There’s actually a lot on the menu that I’ve tried before so there ou go!...

A few weeks ago I shared this yummy chocolate nest recipe and it went crazy on TikTok! But I had a number of people who mentioned making one with Chinese chow mein noodles, so I thought I’d try it out! And honestly, I don’t know which one I like more! I’m a huge fan of chocolate but I’m also a big fan of chow mein noodles, so I’m going to say it’s a tie!...

With the recent release of Hocus Pocus 2, I feel like this has been the year of the witch. Well, after sharing my witch hat cookies, cauldron cupcakes, and witch Halloween dessert board, I’m over witches and ready to move onto other Halloween recipe ideas. I’ve also shared one Frankenstein recipe before – this Frankenstein guacamole – so thought it’d be fun to give a little love to the green monster!...

I’ve been sharing all sorts of Grinch themed ideas this year. Everything from Grinch brownies to a Grinch gift exchange game. I shared this Grinch punch a while ago on TikTok and kind of forgot about actually posting the recipe because it’s such a simple recipe, but I’m here now and ready to share! This fun Grinch drink has a great green flavor thanks to the addition of a small splash of blue curacao syrup (one of my favorites for getting a good green color) and kids will love it just for that reason!...

This recipe is sponsored by Perdue Farms and includes affiliate links. If you purchase via these links, I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. My family is a huge fan of tacos. Most nights we make this homemade taco meat and just do regular beef tacos but after being home for three months straight, our Tuesday taco night needed a little shakeup. These chicken tacos aren’t just a little shakeup, they’re a big one from our standard beef tacos but oh my goodness, they’re so good....

If you’ve read much on my site you’ll know that I love two things – colors and fun! And this swirled Easter cake is both of those things. My son’s birthday was last week, and I knew I wanted to make him a cake that was colorful, delicious, and easy. Plus it had to have vanilla frosting and sprinkles because he’s not a chocolate fan. I made this colorful Easter cake for him (and our neighborhood kids) and I wish I’d taken a picture of the cake pan when they were done....

One of the newest games I’ve been sharing this year has been outburst. Since I already did Christmas outburst cards and Thanksgiving outburst cards, I thought it only fitting to do New Year’s Eve outburst cards. If you’re not familiar with Outburst, it’s really simple. You break into teams and then compete to try and guess the ten items on each chosen category card. Read this entire post to get full instructions but that’s the basic idea....

Easter is one of those holidays that we almost always get together with family, whether it’s just my siblings or my entire extended family, it’s a family holiday! We typically do Easter egg hunts, play some Easter games, and of course eat glazed ham, crescent rolls, and strawberry fluff salad. Those are negotiable in our house. This year since we’re not hosting and not really planning much of it, I thought it’d be fun to take some take home treats for everyone as my contribution....

Some of the best board games that are just classics – Monopoly, Catch Phrase, Sorry, Trivial Pursuit. They’re the games you can play over and over again and they really never get old. Scattergories is one of those type games for me because the game changes every single time you play. This Christmas scattergories game is a simplified version of the actual board game, one with Christmas categories instead of just random ones!...

Grab these Earth Day printable worksheets to use with your children. They’re great for moms of young kids looking for Earth Day preschool worksheets, and wonderful for teachers with kids in kindergarten through late elementary school. Or even just moms looking for a great starting point to teach for their kids how to take care of our Earth on April 22nd! Using these Earth Day activities is a good way to supplement your other learning activities or lesson plans....

Our family typically has the exact same Easter plans. Wake up in the morning and the kids do an Easter scavenger hunt to find their Easter baskets (p.s., these Encanto Easter baskets I made this year are AMAZING!), church, then we do an Easter egg hunt, and then we finish it off with a little Easter dinner. Even our Easter menu is similar – glazed ham, homemade crescent rolls, strawberry fluff, and a little carrot cake or mini egg cheesecake for dessert!...

Easter Scavenger Hunt I’m planning to use this Easter scavenger hunt Easter morning to lead my boys to their Easter basket hidden somewhere in the house! Right before we try out one of these Easter egg hunts! This Easter scavenger hunt is one of the treasure hunt type scavenger hunts. If you’re looking for something where kids have to find certain type of Easter eggs, you’ll want to check out this Easter egg scavenger hunt instead!...

This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase via these links, I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Gratitude Game Skittles Edition One of the things I’ve found the most difficult with a 6-year-old is to help him understand more deep concepts like emotions and gratitude. In the past we tried this gratitude game (and it worked that year) for teaching gratitude, and we’ve also tried this card game for recognizing memories and emotions....

I’ve talked about how much I appreciate teachers before, but I’ll say it again – teachers are amazing. They do so much for our kids and have a job that I personally could never handle. I’ll be a room mom any day but being a teacher, especially right now, is a tough job. So I always like to send in some sort of back to school teacher gift or even just a gift card with one of these teacher appreciation gift tags with my kiddos at the beginning of the year....

We are always looking for fun Thanksgiving games and Thanksgiving activities for kids in our house! We’ve already done a Thanksgiving word search, Thanksgiving i spy, and even created some Thanksgiving coloring pages. So when I started trying to come up with some new games for this year, my mind immediately went to matching. And food. I mean food has to be part of any Thanksgiving activity right? So this Thanksgiving matching game is centered around food – popular Thanksgiving food like stuffing, brussels sprouts, and even cornbread....