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I did manage to share this recipe last week for Christmas Crack. You could also have the kiddos make Christmas cards for neighbors and friends share the Christmas Crack with those your love. The new film was a fun way to kick off the Christmas season. So add a few candy canes to your grocery list and share the light this Christmas season.

In a medium sauce pan bring 1 cup of brown sugar and 1 cup of butter (two sticks…yes, TWO sticks) to a boil. While you are waiting for the butter and brown sugar to melt, cover a large baking sheet with with parchment and clip down the edges to keep the parchment in place. Once your sugar/butter mixture has boiled for 3 minutes and started to caramelize, pour it over the saltines and spread with a spatula. Set the oven to 375 degrees Bring the brown sugar and butter to a boil in a sauce pan.

It’s Thanksgiving week! If you haven’t started your Thankful Turkey (thanks to Busy Toddler) yet, it’s not too late! After cutting out all of our thankful feathers to have a stock pile for the month of November we had a lot of scraps. Then they sorted through the scraps to create a color pattern for the turkey’s feathers.

She is determined, kind hearted, level headed, smart, fun, inquisitive, fearless and a great big sister. The week of her birthday Chickadee requested a princess castle cake. I must admit I was a little worried about exactly how I would pull that off, but after grabbing some different sized & shaped cake pans and her clip on princess, we made it work! I bought most of our party supplies at the Dollar Tree…plates, napkins, banners, crepe paper, straws, pom poms, etc.