Category — Family Fun

 
Chatting with friends up and down the East Coast today I realize that it is numbingly cold. Sandi in New Jersey is at 16 but it will dip to -1 degree tonight. In Savannah, Ga. it was a balmy 19 degrees.  My morning started at -23 degrees ( – 40 wind-chill). and  will be -8 tonight. [...]

Well we did it! On Saturday evening, we hitched our gas-powered wagon and headed to a field of horrors – or more well-known – a haunted hay ride.
It was a cold, but clear night and we dressed in layers – well all of us except the few teenagers who don’t seem to realize that [...]

Each year I take Columbus Day off to spend time with my two children doing something fall/Halloween oriented. Yesterday we visited two local farms – one that specialized in pumpkins and the other apples.
Today many local farms turn their corn fields into mazes or haunted hay rides or pumpkin patches– it’s a great way for [...]

If you have kids, you might be familiar with the phrase “I’m bored!” And if you’re like most of us adults, we long for the days when we thought we were bored…when summer days seemed to last forever . . .
While boredom could lead to trouble, sometimes it’s OK to be bored. In today’s world [...]

. . . that really counts.
Over the holidays my mom had Christmas Eve at her house. It was crazy – 9 kids ranging from 2 to 13, 10 adults, and lots of food. While good times were had and memories made, a few days later when she was sweeping up the “garbage” left behind, she [...]

Winter is definitely here and in many areas the snow is piling up. But in others, where snow is a good possibility in the winter, there hasn’t been as much as say the Farmers’ Almanac’s home state of Maine (man do they have snow!). So at our house, we’ve been doing the SNOW DANCE.
My eight-year-old [...]

While you’re sitting around the Christmas table, or driving to Grandma’s house, these bits of trivia and lore may keep the conversation interesting! Test yourself and your family.
Holiday Lore, Traditions, and Trivia
Does your dog like his biscuits?
According to old wives’ tales, at midnight on every Christmas Eve animals are given the power of speech [...]