Like most people, we did celebrate Christmas two months ago. But I didn't blog over the holidays and hate the thought of letting them go...

I missed out on posting several of our holiday activities while our computer was down (for example, the cookie-a-week I intended to share), ...

It's almost Christmas and I figure most of you are probably finished with your holiday projects or out of town away from your computer a...

We've been making our own Christmas ornaments again since we're still in that stage where having store-bought ornaments proves a dan...

I am on my way, right now, to visit family for the week. It will be a fun and busy week, as we'll be celebrating Thanksgiving, early Ch...

But I have a couple Christmas projects I'd still like to post. These are a few of the very simple holiday aprons (mentioned previously ...

Well, I figured I should present the kids' finished products, since I showed off the little trees and snowmen that went into their work....

Well, not the best picture, but here are some of the faceless snowmen dressed up with arms. You never know which pieces will end up where o...

I've just been gathering and cutting supplies for our holiday place mat-making extravaganza and thought the collection of trees looked f...

I was thinking of posting some ideas for holiday gift wrapping, but haven't gotten my act together. Here's just one idea. A sample...

Some gifts to be made by kids: Framed art. Let your kids play with paint, markers, colored pencils, crayons, glue sticks, fabric and pape...

Some gifts to make for kids: Felt hand puppets . I found the pattern for this monster in this book (from our library) and then began cre...

We love this book. This is an Advent book with one uniquely illustrated door to open each day of December up to Christmas. Each door open...

We give the Zoolights at Lincoln Park Zoo a thumbs up! We took the kids the other night and they loved it. It was freezing outside, but t...

White Christmas is the first holiday movie I watch each year. (I'm a little behind on seasonal videos and music this year-it took me al...

After having so many of our Christmas ornaments broken last year, we decided against them completely this year. Everything on the tree will...