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A countdown to Valentine's Day! I got the idea for this countdown to Valentine's Day calendar from a craft store flyer. They were selling a make your own Valentine's Day 'advent calendar' for $16.00 each, I was sure I could make them for less. I bought these supplies at the Dollarstore and the kids had a blast decorating their countdow calendars. What you need: • 2 Packages of foam hearts  • 1 Bristol board                                                    • Valentine's treats                                                • Glue gun, markers & stickers                            What to do: 1. Cut the Bristol board in half(using one half for each countdown calendar.) Choose 13 hearts for each countdown calendar.  2. Write the numbers 1-13 on the hearts. Using the markers and stickers, decorate the hearts and the Bristol board.  3. Arrange the hearts on the Bristol boards. One by one, fold the hearts in half and p

Little Man asked if he could make pancake art this past weekend. He wanted to make the family a pancake art lunch. Not to be left out Little Miss wanted to stir the pancake batter, she is our resident mixer after all. We mixed up our favorite pancake recipe, any recipe or box mix will do.  Separate the batter into 4 bowls (to make red, yellow, green and blue) add about 4 drops of food coloring to each bowl stirring and adding more drops of food coloring until the colors are the shade you want. Since I don't have any bottles we used sandwich bags with a corner cut off to pipe the pancake batter into shapes. In order to reduce the mess we stood the bags in plastic cups. My pancake artist making his edible masterpiece, this one was an Among Us character.  Happy cooking!

This year has been off to a busy start, the kids have been e-learning and on the day that they were scheduled to go back to school there was a massive snow storm and the schools were closed. After all that we are finally back to our school routine. We're looking forward to everything that this year will bring. Happy crafting and all the best for the New Year!