We bake a lot during the festive season. We always have. My mom starts baking a few weeks beforehand to make sure there is enough. It is a tradition I am carrying on with my children. Baking is a big part of our life, it makes sense we would carry it on through the festive season with these pinwheel cookies.…
I was lucky enough recently to spend the day with KOO cooking with some of their new products. Events like this are the best, we get to experience the products and have some fun. When they made this fudge using black beans I was...
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Do people still send out Christmas cards? Or is that old fashioned? I love receiving good old fashioned snail mail, particularly around the holidays. We still send cards and since becoming a mother I have enjoyed making and sending out...
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We went to the mall this week for the first time in a LONG time! Lexi (age 7) was absolutely flabbergasted that there are Christmas decorations up in the mall. Of course, her next question was, when can we start decorating for...
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With Halloween approaching, we’ve been thinking of all things pumpkin! It’s been hot here and we are wishing we were somewhere cooler, sipping on pumpkin lattes. Instead, we’re here sipping our cold milk and dunking...
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Last week I was popped in to Pick ‘n Pay and noticed they had proper Halloween pumpkins. They looked so awesome I knew we had to carve pumpkins this year. And so we did (post still coming). Obviously there was some excess pumpkin...
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This is another super easy craft we did to decorate for Halloween. We have hung our bat bunting all over the house adding to the spooky feeling of the celebration. Do you know what bats are associated with Halloween? There are a few (3...
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We don’t normally really celebrate Halloween. We have, over the years, gone to a few dress-up parties but we have never decorated or made too much effort. This year the older two kids asked if we could decorate, so we are. We are...
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It’s almost Halloween and Laura and I are going crazy decorating our homes. When I think Halloween one of the first things that come to mind is spiderwebs. This cute Halloween spiderweb is a quick and easy craft that makes...
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My kids might be a little old to be painting with finger paint bu we haven’t done a sensory activity in a while. I decided to make some finger paint for them to use in our Halloween crafts and decor. It is so easy to make, you...
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