A few recycled Christmas cards, a little creativity, these instructions and you have a FREE Christmas village to decorate your house for Christmas!  (Unless you want to add battery-operated tea lights which are very cheap at the dollar store or your favorite variety store … or you may have some laying around.)   Check out [...]

I know you’re probably not like me and have had your Christmas tree up for weeks and weeks…I just got mine up this weekend and that is EARLY for me!  I just have a hard time getting all of the paraphernalia out and organized and together, knowing I’m going to have to repeat the process [...]

My granddaughter is in Kindergarten and I volunteer on Tuesday mornings during center time.  On of the centers is computer and right now they are using Starfall there. “Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to motivate children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness [...]

  Tired of giving gifts that end up in a closet?   Give the White Envelop Project at try…   A Message from the Founders The touching story of the white envelope tradition reached our family over ten years ago and immediately became one of our favorite holiday traditions. Each Christmas, our parents would give [...]

Kids begging for a dog for Christmas? At $129, this one from Wisteria’s a deal!     No vet bills.  No dog food.  And best of all, no walking on cold and rainy nights!  You can’t lose…

Not sure what to do about all those plastic sandwich and snack bags you and your family are going through?   Try Reusies.  They’re not just for lunch either.  You can use them to replace plastic most of the time.       “Consumption The EPA estimates 500 billion – one trillion plastic bags are used [...]

Here’s something fun to do with the kids.  Email Santa and get an instant, detailed reply based on the answers he or she enters.  At emailsanta.com, you can also… Track Santa… Santa will be arriving at your house in: (gives the number of “sleeps”, hours, minutes, seconds) Check out the Rudolph Cam… “You are looking [...]