A few years ago, I saw the idea on social media of doing a scavenger hunt to find Christmas gifts on Christmas morning. I loved the idea and we adopted it! We already had a tradition of gifting the kids a combined gift that they opened last--we've given them things such as a guitar, a Get Out Pass for the year, a nugget couch. Now we hide their combined gift somewhere and they do the scavenger hunt to find it. I knew they enjoyed it, but I didn't realize how much until one of

My reading month in November was great! It wasn't my highest reading month of the year, but I did read a lot and I simply loved so many of the books I read. It was very difficult to narrow down five books for this month (and I may have cheated just a tad). I read 16 books in November and 5,341 pages , for an average of 334 pages per book. I read 12 books by female authors and 4 books by male authors . I borrowed 8 books and owned 8 of the books I read. I read 1 physical

We have a lot of Christmas traditions that I love to do with my kids and as they get older, I know things will get crazier and we'll probably need to adapt and maybe start changing some of our traditions (which means stopping some old ones as we start new ones). This year, I thought it would be fun to sit down and ask each of my kids what their top three favorite traditions of the season are. Here are their answers! Ashtyn Polar Express Party Each year, we do a party where we