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March 19, 2025 Simple Cookie Bars Are My New Favorite Desserts

Cookie Bars. I think that I may stop making regular cookies all together. These cookie bars were so easy to make, I don’t know why it has taken me this long to get on the train! I found this recipe for Frosted Confetti Cookie Bars on Instagram from Emily of My Messy Kitchen, and I […]

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March 18, 2025 Viral Valentine Lip Balm Key Chains

I saw people making the viral keychains all over Instagram and decided that I had to make some for my friends. I bought the decals for the keychain pre-made, and just added them to the clear, sparkle tags. It took no time at all. I then added some conversation heart gift cards to Starbucks – […]

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March 14, 2025 Everyone Gets Them While They’re Hot: Sheet Pan Pancakes

My big thing with making traditional pancakes for my family is that I would make them in batches, put them in the oven to keep them warm, but really no one would get hot pancakes. With sheet pan pancakes, everyone gets to eat them at the same time, and everyone gets to eat them while […]

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March 10, 2025 Sleep Under: Fun Personalized Party Kits

We were headed to our first sleep under, and decided to bring some fun party favors to keep the night exciting! We had these cute clear pencil cases that I used my Cricut to personalize with the girl’s names. They were having dinner and then watching a movie, so we decided to put in some […]

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March 5, 2025 Gotta Make the Cupcakes

Cupcakes are my go to baked good to make for any event – birthdays, holidays, bake sales, teacher treats, you name it. We recently had friends over who had never been to the house and she said, “I kind of expected that you would probably have a shelf full of sprinkles in your kitchen”. I […]

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January 24, 2025 Scandinavian Traditions: Good Luck For the New Year

Sometimes you have people come into your life, and they turn out to be very special people. We are fortunate to have so many of them. We have a neighbor, who told us about our house when the owner’s were thinking about selling it, and we bought it before they put it on the market. […]

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January 22, 2025 Camp Mom: Do You Want to Build a Snow Globe?

With the school vacation being 92,090,233,643 days long, we were looking for things to do. Lots of things to do. We had some extra supplies from a craft we brought to school, so we used the extra snow globes from the Dollar Store, some glitter, fake snow, beads, and some 50% off ornaments from Target […]

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January 20, 2025 Holiday Workshop: Decorating Gingerbread Houses at Eastern Standard Kitchen

For the holidays, we decided to try focus more on experiences this year, instead of things. The other kids went to The Langham Hotel to decorate a gingerbread house, so we went to Eastern Standard Kitchen to decorate one! At $185, this was a pricier event, but we had a whole banquette to ourselves, and […]

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January 17, 2025 Gingerbread Houses at The Langham Hotel: Paddington Edition

This year for the holidays, we decided to focus more on experiences over “things”. We decided to take our kids to the Langham Hotel again for their Gingerbread House event for the second year in a row. We paired up one big and one little, which we weren’t sure how it was going to go, […]

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December 20, 2024 Holiday Cheer is Here

How to gain ten pounds in a month 🙂 Give me all things peppermint! Trader Joe’s makes their Hold the Cone in a limited holiday peppermint flavor, Crescent Ridge offers their peppermint stick Holiday Cridgewich ice cream sandwiches, New City Micro Creamery offers holiday peppermint stick ice cream pies and Trombetta’s also offers a peppermint […]

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