What does Good Friday Mean?

resurrection cookies001

Teach kids about the resurrection by making these Empty Tomb Cookies. Click here. In the same way the Constatine influenced the celebration of Winter Solstice, Constatine also influenced the celebration of Good Friday. This day was invented by the Roman Catholic Church — after 325 BC when Constatine dictated that Easter would be celebrated on [...]

Full Story »

Funny egg story for Easter

easter11.gif

I’m sending you to a special blog, As Time Goes By, to read a story about an egg. You’ll like this. Scroll down. It’s at the end of the post. Senior Breakfast.

Full Story »

Time to Rewrite a Family Tradition

Do you remember those awful Easter Egg Hunts when you were a kid? I remember going out in the cold, and it was usually raining, and very dreary. I spotted an egg – and just before my hand touched it, someone else swiped it away. I was lucky to have one egg by the time [...]

Full Story »

How to preserve your child’s footprint in plaster

preservebabyfootprintDSC_0003

We may not be able to catch a breath, but we can catch a footprint. Here’s a beautiful, easy, inexpensive craft recipe to catch your child’s footprint — or handprint in a plaster keepsake. A great way to capture baby’s footprint. I love this method, more than any kit you can buy, because it creates [...]

Full Story »

Lions, Tigers and Bears, Oh My…

This is how it all turned out. I gave my boys the right to choose what they wanted to do. My 8-year-old, initially said, he wanted to stay at the sleep over. Once I told him that was fine, it was like a burden had been lifted from his shoulders. Miraculously, he came around, and [...]

Full Story »
Page 2 of 2«12