Holiday

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, try this very simple Thanksgiving turkey craft with your kids. Find your paper plates and sponges! It's going to get cheerful and colorful in your household this week. Hooray for this Thanksgiving Turkey Craft! It's...

Christmas is a season full of traditions. One tradition that I have carried from childhood is that every year, my family gets a real Christmas tree.  For me, the smell of Christmas is the rich scent of an evergreen tree....

Guess what we are hosting? A Halloween costume contest! UPDATE: The winner of the Halloween Costume Contest is: RUTH BADER GINSBURG! She has won a mini photo session with the talented Sarah Durrant of Studio 1527. Many congrats and thank you for...

The hot topic of the month: What are you doing for Halloween? Is Halloween canceled? Will you trick-or-treat? Should I buy candy or other treats?  I don’t think families have ever been so creative and crafty as we all have...

Halloween is the perfect kids’ holiday. It has: dress up, parent-sanctioned staying-up-late, candy, arts and crafts, and a chance to see parents joining in the creativity. So as the pandemic drags on and October 31st approaches, I’ve worried that...

Halloween will be here in the blink of an eye! While traditional Trick or Treating likely won't be happening this year, there is still fun to be had with Halloween crafts at home, visiting pumpkin patches, or enjoying the...

Halloween is a big deal in our house. We are constantly making Halloween crafts and are keeping our social distance at multiple pumpkin patches across the DMV this year. We are also big fans of lots of Halloween books....

We may not be able to go out for a nice brunch or host all of our extended family, but there are some advantages to Mother's Day during a shelter in place order. I present to you the Guilt-Free...

It's Mother's Day and we are all stuck in a situation where everyday feels the same as we stay home hunkered down and suffer from cabin fever. Mother’s Day is a challenge because it's a day when we want...

Last year I wrote about what a typical Ramadan in a Muslim household feels like. This year Ramadan comes and possibly will end during a worldwide pandemic. It will have a different flavor and different challenges. A big part of...

This post about Earth Day's 50th Anniversary is written by Guest Writers: Seema Thomas and Junu Shrestha The thoughts presented in the article are the writers' own and do not represent views of the organizations they are employed in. Please note...

Good news: the Easter Bunny is not under a stay-at-home order and will be delighting children with treats this weekend. Bad news: just about everything else about this Easter will be different, thanks to the global health crisis that...

With Easter plans officially scrapped, it is time to focus on decorating our house for the most festive, socially distant, self-isolated Easter possible. How are we going to do this? Easter bunny crafts. My nearly four-year-olds and I spent the...

"Why is tonight different from all other nights?" This is one of the most iconic questions asked during a Passover seder (ritual meal). In celebration of being led out of Egypt from slavery to freedom, Jewish people all over...