Joy's Fun Stuff

In an effort to fulfill my life goal of unnecessarily complicating every possible situation, through the years I have spent hours and hours

My oldest 2 boys may not have a single patch sewed on their scout uniforms, but I do Halloween Gingerbread Houses with my kids. As a mom, I cannot do it all and I'm happy to fail at the scout patch thing as to make more room in my life for sugar glued to sugar using sugar. Because, well, priorities. This is one of those fun traditions that the kids get REALLY excited for. But can you blame them? They get to create/gorge themselves with treats and make a spooky project that th

One year we had some friends with the last name Baire and they had the greatest family costumes for Halloween- the baby was dressed in the most snuggly, adorable bear costume and the hubby and wife had teddy bears tied to their heads like hats. They were the best 3 Bears ever and it was hilarious. I knew right then that we had future Halloween plans. So every year we hash around trying to come up with a creative costume theme that is acceptable to all involved. This is gettin

After the big boys were out of school I cut a bunch of paper in half and asked them to decorate them with things they were grateful for. So

We had a church Trunk or Treat on Saturday, leaving us with very large bags of candy and a feeling of dread for the mountain of candy we knew was still coming. In an effort to put that sugar to work for us, we pulled out the chocolate graham crackers and leftover frosting and whipped up some Halloween Gingerbread Houses. This whole project took me about 10-15 minutes of prep to cut the crackers, cook the sugar, and form the houses, which was pretty good for such a fun activit

It took me FOREVER to figure out our theme this year. I just couldn't decide on something that we could all get behind. It has to be broad enough for everyone to be able to have options and also funny enough so I'm not embarrassed wearing a full Tigger suit or something. Although that IS kind of funny... Because these are the things that keep me up at night. For reals. My poor husband. Everyone picked their favorite holiday and it all came together pretty easily, thankyouamaz