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This week is dedicated to ideas for Easter weekend. Today’s topic: tyke baskets. My boys have soft baskets similar to this one. I got them on super sale since it was thisclose to Easter when I ordered them for their first Easters – and yes, their names are on them too. I dutifully put them away for safe-keeping once Easter is over but when […]

“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” Hebrews 13:2 {image}

Yes. I have tykes. Two of the boy variety to be exact. To think they don’t influence me with endless creative sparks would be a mistake. They are my little muses who love to run literal and figurative circles around me, jump in puddles, and dig in the dirt – with cool kid gardening tools – looking for worms. There are days […]

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“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” – Charles Dickens {image}

If you’re around tykes at all you know a Curious George and Dinosaur Train mash-up would be the be-all-and-end-all of kiddie television. George’s antics with Buddy’s brains would be an unstoppable force to be dealt with on PBS. This is also the perfect analogy for what happened in February to me. Last month, realizing I was mashing two very different services at Sparrow […]

“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” – Rogers Hornsby{image}

Are you hosting an Oscar shin-dig? Looking for a way to keep your guests occupied during those red carpet interviews or while nominees are introduced? How about a little Red Carpet and Oscar Bingo? Give your winners their own bottle of bubbly to celebrate the hard work or a little gold statue to place on their own mantle. Links to […]

“To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt {image}

I’m in the camp of Valentine’s Day is made special by creating from the heart. Keep it simple and authentic. You can’t go wrong. I had a friend who spent every Valentine’s Day volunteering in an assisted home. I always thought – and still think – that was incredible gesture of love and compassion. To me, she embodied the meaning of […]