When you name your son Maverick – well, at some point, you need to throw him a “Top Gun” themed party. You just have to. So, for Mav’s 2nd birthday we did just that. No, he has never seen the movie, but he loves airplanes, and birthday cake, so I thought, why not? And us adults loved the fact that we could get our party jam on with the Top Gun Soundtrack!
October is here, the weather is getting crisp and Halloween is just around the corner. My family loves all things Halloween-related, and I think my kids ask me, “Is it Halloween yet?” for almost nine months out of the year. I thought I would take things up a notch with our candy container this year […]
My family recently celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and this year I decided to play on the honey theme by using bees, honey sticks, and a beehive for the kids table decor at dinner. […]
My littlest one (a twenty-two-month-old boy) is into touching and exploring everything these days. And what toddler isn’t? His favorite books are all of the Usborne “touchy-feely” books from the That’s Not My… series. I’ve seen many DIY sensory boards floating around Pinterest […]
Now that summer is here, my kids have been politely begging me to do a lemonade stand. I was totally on board with this idea, recalling my own childhood memories of setting up shop in our front yard. […]
Liesl absolutely LOVES animals, so we decided that a Wild African Safari would be the perfect theme for her 5th birthday. Her only request was “live animals”, and we found a great non-profit to give the party goers a fun and and education exotic animal show and Liesl was their special assistant.
