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  My oldest daughter is a junior in high school and it has finally started to hit me that we only have a year and a half left of her living at home before college. I really want to spend more time together as a family while she is still here. Most Friday nights my 6 year old daughter, my husband, and myself watch a movie together. My 6 year old loves movies but we don’t let her watch them on school nights, so she always jumps at the chance to watch one on Friday nights. My teenager usually passes...

This is such a fun but easy Birthday surprise! It’s super quick to set up and very inexpensive. My daughter was so surprised and excited when she opened her door the morning of her birthday and balloons rained down on her.  Supplies used:  Crepe paper streamers Clear packaging Tape Balloons Balloon pump (optional) After my daughter went to bed the night before her birthday, I set this up by taking strips of crepe paper streamers and taped them across the top half of the door frame in cross crossed patterns. I found clear packaging tape worked best (scotch tape broke...

As I’ve said before, I’m an excellent baker but not very good at cake decorating! I love to make my kids birthday cakes but am constantly looking for what I know I can pull off with my limited skill set. When planning a Trolls themed birthday party, I saw lots of beautiful Trolls cakes, but they all required more piping skills than I have, or a lot more fondant work than I was comfortable with. I found a set of Trolls Figurines that could be used a cake toppers, but didn’t like the idea of just throwing them on top of...

We were hosting a Grinchmas party at our house this year and I really wanted to deck the halls in proper Who fashion. We were spending a bunch on food and party supplies so I didn’t want to buy a bunch of new Christmas wall decor. I also didn’t want to have to store even more Christmas decorations after the holidays were over. I decided I would wrap all the artwork in our house and hang the wrapped artwork back on the walls. The presents hanging all over the house instantly gave our walls a Christmas makeover and it cost...

Our favorite Easter tradition is to dye deviled eggs! Dying eggs is fun, but it usually creates waste at our house since we don’t eat all the dyed hard boiled eggs after Easter. So instead of dying egg shells, we started dying the deviled eggs themselves, and deviled eggs always get eaten at my house!  These eggs are super easy to make and always leave our friends and family saying, “Wow, how did you do that?” To start you make a large batch of hard boiled eggs, my favorite way to make hard boiled eggs is to throw a bunch...