I thought putting together a waffle bar for kids would be a kind of a pain. But it wasn’t. Yes there was set up and clean up but let’s face it, even sandwiches don’t make themselves. For a fun lunch (and an amazing idea for a kid-friendly dinner party), I set up a waffle bar…
Simple White Bean Hummus with Lemon Juice
YOU KNOW HOW YOU’RE ALWAYS TRYING/BEGGING/PLEADING to get the kids eating more veggies? This easy white bean hummus is one new way to do it, no bribes needed. Get Kids Excited For most kids, homemade white bean hummus will be is a new food and ours were no different, so I used a couple of…
a sweet shop birthday party theme: happy 8th birthday, rian!
NOTHING COULD BE SWEETER than a candy store birthday party. “Rian’s birthday is the day before Halloween,” says mom Amber Schotemeyer from her Virginia home. “She wanted to do a sweet shop party so we tied it in with a sweet Halloween theme.” Here’s how they pulled off the best bash of the year.
a Halloween party menu plus healthier Halloween cupcakes
DESPERATE FOR A LITTLE TRICK-OR-TREATING, we hosted our own Halloween party for ex-pats this weekend. The result: 13 kids, 15 adults and countless cupcakes. Costumes for the Mathews crew included one garden gnome (and if you’ve never heard a 2-year old try to say “gnome” I highly recommend it) and one flower. Monster Mash played…
a garden birthday party with low sugar “dirt cups”: happy 2nd birthday phoebe!
THE DIRT CUPS WERE a process. For Phoebe’s second birthday I set out to create a garden party in Villa Ada, Rome’s largest park. And the star of the show, other than the birthday girl’s pretty fabulous tutu, was the “dirt cups”, aka, brownies and pudding mixed together in tiny terra cotta pots with worms,…