Fact 1: Crafts are more fun when crafted with others. Fact 2: Crafts are WAY more fun when crafted with kids. So, after my balloon-and-trash bag ghost craft were such a Halloween hit with my friend’s adorable girls, I started working up a Christmas craft [Read more…]

In the bleak midwinter,  frosty wind made moan,  Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;  Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,  In the bleak midwinter, long ago. Yesterday, I sat in an arena filled with proud families to watch my [Read more…]

In my mind (just as it is in the mind of every author) my book will someday be made into a movie. I have a cast list (my favorites — Judge and Paula would be played by John Goodman and Dolly Parton…tell me you can’t [Read more…]

Few things in this world are more important to me than my Christmas village. I realize that’s not a statement that instills confidence in my sanity or connection to reality, but it’s the truth and I won’t deny it. Growing up in sunny Florida, Christmas [Read more…]