I’ve been sharing all sorts of Grinch themed ideas this year. Everything from Grinch brownies to a Grinch gift exchange game. I shared this Grinch punch a while ago on TikTok and kind of forgot about actually posting the recipe because it’s such a simple recipe, but I’m here now and ready to share! This fun Grinch drink has a great green flavor thanks to the addition of a small splash of blue curacao syrup (one of my favorites for getting a good green color) and kids will love it just for that reason!...

This recipe is sponsored by Perdue Farms and includes affiliate links. If you purchase via these links, I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. My family is a huge fan of tacos. Most nights we make this homemade taco meat and just do regular beef tacos but after being home for three months straight, our Tuesday taco night needed a little shakeup. These chicken tacos aren’t just a little shakeup, they’re a big one from our standard beef tacos but oh my goodness, they’re so good....

If you’ve read much on my site you’ll know that I love two things – colors and fun! And this swirled Easter cake is both of those things. My son’s birthday was last week, and I knew I wanted to make him a cake that was colorful, delicious, and easy. Plus it had to have vanilla frosting and sprinkles because he’s not a chocolate fan. I made this colorful Easter cake for him (and our neighborhood kids) and I wish I’d taken a picture of the cake pan when they were done....

I don’t love to admit it, but I have body acne. I’ve had it since the onset of puberty. It’s a combination of hormones, sensitive skin, and ever-persistent keratosis and rosacea. I do what I can, with some success, to topically soothe the breakouts, but they persist. But once I started using this eucalyptus sheet set, I realized that much of the rash-like irritation I woke up with regularly (especially on my sensitive chest) was probably because of the material of my old sheets....

One of the newest games I’ve been sharing this year has been outburst. Since I already did Christmas outburst cards and Thanksgiving outburst cards, I thought it only fitting to do New Year’s Eve outburst cards. If you’re not familiar with Outburst, it’s really simple. You break into teams and then compete to try and guess the ten items on each chosen category card. Read this entire post to get full instructions but that’s the basic idea....

Easter is one of those holidays that we almost always get together with family, whether it’s just my siblings or my entire extended family, it’s a family holiday! We typically do Easter egg hunts, play some Easter games, and of course eat glazed ham, crescent rolls, and strawberry fluff salad. Those are negotiable in our house. This year since we’re not hosting and not really planning much of it, I thought it’d be fun to take some take home treats for everyone as my contribution....

Some of the best board games that are just classics – Monopoly, Catch Phrase, Sorry, Trivial Pursuit. They’re the games you can play over and over again and they really never get old. Scattergories is one of those type games for me because the game changes every single time you play. This Christmas scattergories game is a simplified version of the actual board game, one with Christmas categories instead of just random ones!...

Grab these Earth Day printable worksheets to use with your children. They’re great for moms of young kids looking for Earth Day preschool worksheets, and wonderful for teachers with kids in kindergarten through late elementary school. Or even just moms looking for a great starting point to teach for their kids how to take care of our Earth on April 22nd! Using these Earth Day activities is a good way to supplement your other learning activities or lesson plans....

Our family typically has the exact same Easter plans. Wake up in the morning and the kids do an Easter scavenger hunt to find their Easter baskets (p.s., these Encanto Easter baskets I made this year are AMAZING!), church, then we do an Easter egg hunt, and then we finish it off with a little Easter dinner. Even our Easter menu is similar – glazed ham, homemade crescent rolls, strawberry fluff, and a little carrot cake or mini egg cheesecake for dessert!...

Easter Scavenger Hunt I’m planning to use this Easter scavenger hunt Easter morning to lead my boys to their Easter basket hidden somewhere in the house! Right before we try out one of these Easter egg hunts! This Easter scavenger hunt is one of the treasure hunt type scavenger hunts. If you’re looking for something where kids have to find certain type of Easter eggs, you’ll want to check out this Easter egg scavenger hunt instead!...

This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase via these links, I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Gratitude Game Skittles Edition One of the things I’ve found the most difficult with a 6-year-old is to help him understand more deep concepts like emotions and gratitude. In the past we tried this gratitude game (and it worked that year) for teaching gratitude, and we’ve also tried this card game for recognizing memories and emotions....

I’ve talked about how much I appreciate teachers before, but I’ll say it again – teachers are amazing. They do so much for our kids and have a job that I personally could never handle. I’ll be a room mom any day but being a teacher, especially right now, is a tough job. So I always like to send in some sort of back to school teacher gift or even just a gift card with one of these teacher appreciation gift tags with my kiddos at the beginning of the year....

We are always looking for fun Thanksgiving games and Thanksgiving activities for kids in our house! We’ve already done a Thanksgiving word search, Thanksgiving i spy, and even created some Thanksgiving coloring pages. So when I started trying to come up with some new games for this year, my mind immediately went to matching. And food. I mean food has to be part of any Thanksgiving activity right? So this Thanksgiving matching game is centered around food – popular Thanksgiving food like stuffing, brussels sprouts, and even cornbread....

I love a lot of things about camping but not necessarily the bugs. So instead of actually going camping these days, I really like to host camping themed parties and sharing camping party ideas! These campfire cupcakes are an adorable addition to any camp party dessert table or would make a great dessert for an actual campout (as long as it’s cooler so the frosting won’t melt!). They use my favorite chocolate cupcake recipe as a base but if you’re in a hurry store-bought chocolate cupcakes would work too!...

This Halloween is still going to look a little different than years in the past. People are having to come up with new fun Halloween games, doing neighborhood Halloween scavenger hunts, and swapping trick or treating with the candy bar game or Halloween egg hunts. This Halloween Quik Draw game is the perfect game for this Halloween because you can do it either in person or virtually via Zoom or another similar program....

Trick or Treat Game Idea Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and for good reason. Candy. Costumes. Chili (especially this white chicken chili). All things I love. It’s no wonder we host or at least attend a Halloween party every year! This Halloween trick or treat tree game idea is still one of my favorites because it’s SO simple to make and play! It’s also great because it’s really just about luck – not skill like these Halloween minute to win it games....

Skipping the bar has certainly saved me money considering I was accustomed to paying upwards of $15 for a cocktail not long ago. But the alcohol and sugar content of unlimited margaritas, lemon drops, and dirty martinis can quickly add up, leading to unfortunate hangovers made even more unfortunate by the fact that they originated from a quiet night in. So when I discovered Haus, a brand that makes low-ABV (alcohol by volume) apéritifs that promise to reduce hangovers, I was sold....

Sure, the right lineup is important—including making the proper skincare routine transition—but first, it’s important to understand what dry skin is in order to combat it. Since colder weather is rapidly approaching, we enlisted some top dermatologists to find out how best to prepare for the winter skin storm forecast ahead. What is the difference between dry and dehydrated skin? Dry skin is often misunderstood. To put things simply, dryness refers to a skin type, and dehydration refers to a skin condition....

What Is Board and Batten? Board and batten is a siding or paneling style that pairs vertical planks of wood (the boards) with smaller strips of wood (the batten), which cover the joints between each plank to prevent leaking. According to Jay Kallos, senior vice president of architecture at homebuilder Ashton Woods, the style probably originated with barns and other outhouses, where it was a practical, relatively easy exterior cladding solution for structures that didn’t need to be particularly elegant or ready to impress visitors....

What NOT to Compost While there are a few materials such as onion scraps, citrus peels, egg shells, and stale bread that are best added only in small amounts, the following items should never be put in your compost bin. 1. Meat and Fish Scraps That stench of old seafood or the fetid smell of rotting meat are foul, to be sure. But the same repulsive scents are magnets for skunks, raccoons, rats, flies, and a lot of other wild critters, including a few neighborhood pets....