Apple season is here and for our family that means making our favorite apple crisp recipe, an easy recipe for homemade applesauce or apple cottage cheese pancakes. But we don’t just like making things with apples, we like doing things with apples too! And one of the easiest things to do with apples, besides eating [...]

I love autumn. The days are cooler . . . the leaves are changing, and . . . it’s apple season! And with that comes our annual trip to the local farm where we pick apples . . . tons of apples. While we always start out eating the apples right out of the bag, [...]

The other day we went letterboxing at a beautiful park, forest, cemetery. Yes . . . cemetery! Just because there are tombstones everywhere, doesn’t mean all cemeteries look like this!

In fact, I think cemeteries and tombstones can be beautiful . . . during the light of day of course.

So we trekked down to our local [...]

We went letterboxing yesterday and I couldn’t wait to come home and share this idea with all of you!
What is letterboxing you ask?
According to Letterboxing.org,
Letterboxing is an intriguing pastime combining navigational skills and rubber stamp artistry in a charming “treasure hunt” style outdoor quest. A wide variety of adventures can be found to [...]

My ten-year-old loves doing origami. She can make all sorts of things using this Japanese art of paper folding, including cranes, frogs and these origami balls. Since making origami balls (or any other origami shape) are not my strong suit, I asked my daughter to demonstrate how to make them. So I could learn later [...]

My kids love to play outside. They’re always running around looking for nature’s treasures to use in elaborate games they make up with the neighborhood kids. Everyday is one big outdoor scavenger hunt. So even on the days the weather is lousy, they plead to go outside. As tempting as it is to have the [...]