Easy Breakfast Muffins with a Hash Brown Crust I’ll be honest, I hate making breakfast. I love eating breakfast, but I hate making it. It just seems like it gets in the way of starting your day. I’d much rather sleep in for a few more minutes and have a breakfast I can just pop in the microwave (like these bacon and egg breakfast rolls) and eat on my way to doing bigger and better things....

If you couldn’t tell already, I’m a bit of a sucker for anything pizza related. When you have a son who asks for pizza pretty much every day, you have to come up with different ways to serve said pizza so it doesn’t look and seem like the exact same thing every day. So far I’ve made pepperoni pizza roll ups, pizza loaf, mini calzones, English muffin pizzas, and of course pepperoni rolls....

Is there anything better than a cup of hot chocolate on a cold winter day? If you love hot chocolate, you’ll absolutely love this hot chocolate dip. And if you don’t like hot chocolate well don’t worry, you’ll probably like this dip too as long you like chocolate. It’s a creamy and delicious dessert dip that gets a rich chocolate flavor from the addition of hot chocolate mix. It would make a great addition to pretty much any of these Christmas party themes, tasted great served with these sugar cookie bites, and be a hit with both kids and adults....

When is the last time you’ve had a Little Debbie snack of any kind? They’re nostalgic, classic, and somehow find their way into my cart once a month or so. My personal favorites are peanut butter bars (they remind me of my great grandpa), star crunch, and of course swiss roll cakes. I thought it would be fun to build off that nostalgia and go with a lush cake (aka a rich and creamy cake kind of like striped delight) made up of Swiss roll cakes....

A weighted blanket: sure. A candle that I only ever light while I’m winding down. A tea chock full of l-theanine. While wading through each of these solutions, the most helpful for me has been switching out my bedside lamp for a little auto-dimming light with a warm, indirect glow. When Casper sent me its nightlight to try, I hadn’t realized how smart the gadget really was. I’d just chosen it for its automatic dimming feature and its small profile on my bedside table....

To buy: $180 (was $280); amazon.com. The smart robot vacuum delivers 200 pascals (a unit of pressure) of suction power to gather up dust, long hair, and crumbs effortlessly. The RoboVac loosens and pulls in debris with its two side brushes and a larger brush roll before funneling the gunk right into the dustbin. Even with all that power, shoppers confirm that the vacuum isn’t loud while running, so you can watch TV or take a Zoom call without anyone noticing....

Because the low-risk process promises skin as soft as a baby’s bottom while being completely painless and superficial (no blood!), it’s become a very popular in-office procedure for derms and estheticians. The concept of merging shaving and exfoliating has even been touted as an effective anti-aging technique. But since the pandemic has made office visits impossible, you may be wondering how to dermaplane at home. You don’t need to track down a surgical blade to do it yourself, thanks to facial razors and at-home dermaplaning systems like Dermaflash, the facial exfoliation technique is more accessible than ever....

Over the years, I’ve been sharing more and more word searches for different holidays and occasions. But somehow I hadn’t shared an Easter one yet. Since I’ve been on an Easter kick this year, it’s time. In the past, I’ve stuck to mostly easier word searches but I had a couple of readers ask me for a harder version, so I’ve incorporated that into this post as well! So whether you’re looking for an easy word search, a difficult one, or don’t really care as long as it’s a free printable – I’ve got you covered!...

I’m incredibly lucky to still have four sets of living grandparents – one set of great-grandparents and three sets of grandparents. My sons both have those four PLUS two sets of grandparents (our parents) that they’re very close to. Even though we’re all close, I wouldn’t necessarily say that my sons know that much about their grandparents. These fun family interview questions are a great way to get to know grandparents (or aunts and uncles) better....

This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase via these links, I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. If you’ve read my blog before, you probably know that I’m a big fan of dice games! From this viral dice gift exchange to this roll a rainbow game, I love coming up with creative ways to use dice! After putting together a whole bunch of fun math games last week, I thought it could be fun to combine dice and math in these fun printable math dice games!...

Seek & Find Scavenger Hunts If you’ve read my blog at all, you know I love me some good scavenger hunt ideas. In the past I’ve shared everything from an indoor scavenger hunt to a fall photo scavenger hunt and even an alphabet scavenger hunt! So it only makes sense that it’s time to finally share a Halloween scavenger hunt – two actually. These are both seek and find type scavenger hunts where you are looking for items on a list....

If there was ever a day for a big family gathering and celebration, it’s Thanksgiving. In fact, we polled a bunch of people for our Thanksgiving Family Feud game and the top word that people mentioned relating to Thanksgiving was family. Our typical Thanksgiving traditions include getting together with family, eating a lot of food (hello sausage stuffing and homemade apple pie), a little football watching and playing. And of course – some Thanksgiving games played around people’s naps....

Shopping tip: semolina flour is available at most supermarkets, often near all-purpose flour.

It can be inspirational, practical—or just plain funny. But no matter what book you pick, it’ll help them as they make the transition into the real world.

One of the most difficult aspects of feeding ourselves and our families at home has been navigating the grocery store aisles—following the CDC’s recommended safety guidelines, arriving at the crack of dawn in hopes of finding toilet paper or canned beans (who have we become?), hunting down (but not hoarding!) plenty of provisions to avoid multiple trips in a week. We’re pros by now, and as restaurants begin to open and takeout options expand, food shopping has gotten easier....

Start by decluttering and asking yourself some tough questions. “Do you really need a physical copy of your cable bill?” Rosenthal asks. Instead of keeping the hard copy, scan it! And don’t worry, you don’t need an ugly, bulky scanner anymore—a smartphone and an app will do the trick. “The Dropbox app has a scanning feature built right in, so you can scan and organize the digital file and then toss or shred the original,” she explains....

But even after the final COVID restrictions are removed, there may be some lasting effects of the pandemic on how we choose to celebrate. “I think how often and how people entertain will depend entirely on how their area was affected by COVID,” says Tamara Reynolds, author of How to Throw a Dinner Party Without Having a Nervous Breakdown. “People who didn’t feel affected will return sooner—people who were very affected are having a harder time coming back....