Holiday Rice Krispie Treats

Holiday Rice Krispie Treats

Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope everyone has a fantastic day, month, year full of LOVE. We’ve been talking about love a lot in our house, mostly how we others, especially those we love (brother/sister battles going on!). Love is kind folks. “And a new command 

Valentine Activity for Toddlers | Fine Motor Skill Practice

Valentine Activity for Toddlers | Fine Motor Skill Practice

Decorating for Valentines Day is usually brief, but I like to do it anyway. We have a few banners up around the house and this one might be my favorite. Some of the banners I use year after year like this Valentine bunting from forever 

Valentine Number Sense Activity

Valentine Number Sense Activity

Valentine’s is in full swing over here! We have decorated, crafted, played and eaten our fair share of Valentine themed everything, and we still have a week to go. I know people say it gets all “Hallmarky” but you won’t find me pouting on folks 

Fourth of July Round Up

Fourth of July Round Up

For as long as I can remember we’ve always celebrated the 4th of July at the beach. And then last year, we mixed things up and went the week before the 4th. The same was true for this year, and so last week my dad’s 

Happy Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” -Winnie the Pooh These two and their daddy….they have my heart. Happy Valentine’s Day to you too! I hope you are surrounded my those you love today. Speaking of LOVE, we began the 

Best Kept Secret in Christmas Cards!

Best Kept Secret in Christmas Cards!

Do you send out Christmas cards? This time of year I absolutely LOVE going to the mailbox each day and finding love sent from friends near and far. I love seeing how they have captured their family during the year. How far away friend’s children 

Spring Handprint & Footprint Art Roundup

Spring Handprint & Footprint Art Roundup

If you have been around A Step in the Journey long, you may have noticed my love for hand print and footprint art with my littles. I love capturing their size and ever changing features at every age and hand and footprint art is a 

Toddler Valentine Fingerprint Art

Toddler Valentine Fingerprint Art

***So I have noooo idea why the internet fairies decided to send out a comment response as a post yesterday, sorry about that. I you wanted to know the kind of sausage I used in this one pot recipe, it was Hillshire. I double checked 

DIY LOVE Mailboxes for Kids

DIY LOVE Mailboxes for Kids

Yall, can I be honest for two seconds. I really haven’t felt like blogging lately. I’m not sure why, maybe I just needed some inspiration. Okay…two seconds over because well, I got some inspiration. Chickadee loves going to the mailbox. She is so cute carrying 

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

From our family to yours, wishing you a Merry Christmas!! ~ Laura Beth, III, Chickadee, and Sprout And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you goods news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you 

White Chocolate Peppermint OREO Bites

White Chocolate Peppermint OREO Bites

Do yall make neighbor gifts at Christmas time? Honestly, I am hit or miss from year to year. It really depends how on top of it I am each Christmas season. I’m hoping to whip up a little something for our neighbors before we head 

EASY Christmas Cranberry Punch

EASY Christmas Cranberry Punch

I’m dropping in for only a few seconds today. The kids are napping and I have a feeling I only have a few minutes left before they are rejuvenated to finish out this beautiful day! Sunday night I had the pleasure to host some of 

Christmas Home Tour

Christmas Home Tour

How much fun it was to decorate a NEW house! I absolutely LOVE decorating for Christmas and honestly am thinking of starting a new trend where the house is decorated from November to February. Who is with me? This year I got to decorate the 

Fall Hand Print Craft Ideas

Fall Hand Print Craft Ideas

A few weeks ago we had our playgroup over for a little Fall craft fun! I absolutely LOVE creating with their little hand and foot prints. It creates fabulous art but also captures their little prints at this current time in life. They are a