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Saturday Christmas Tips: Wrapping Presents
Posts from the Past… Who couldn’t use a little less stress during the holidays. Hopefully these Saturday posts will ease your holiday chaos and please feel free to share your own ideas! Come back next Saturday for another great idea! In the past I had just wrapped my four kids’ presents and put the name…
12 Pearls of Christmas: Gifts of Purpose
Too Precious to Wear by Sarah Sundin One Christmas when my mother was a girl, she received a string of pearls from her father. Since her parents were divorced-an unusual situation in the 1950s-she treasured the pearls as a sign of her father’s love. When he passed away her senior year in high school, the…
New Christmas Tree Design Will Not be Mistaken for a "Holiday" Tree
What do you think of the Christ-mas tree??? (Nashville, TN) – Boss Creations, a new holiday décor company, has introduced the new “CHRIST-mas” Treeâ„¢, featuring the unique trait of a trunk in the shape of a wooden cross. Company owner Marsha Boggs says the tree was specifically designed to counter the “war on Christmas.” “When…
All I Want for Christmas is…
A Netbook A KitchenAide Which I got for my birthday!! A contract… What do you want?
Saturday Christmas Tips: Remembering St. Nick
Posts from the Past Who couldn’t use a little less stress during the holidays. Hopefully these Saturday posts will ease your holiday chaos and please feel free to share your own ideas! Come back next Saturday for another great idea! In my efforts to steer materialism away from December the 25th, and create new family…
My Little Reader
Grace has finally learned to love to read THIS WEEK. She’s seven years old and though her reading is still not great, that doesn’t stop her from grabbing a book from her bookshelf and reading it for herself. It doesn’t matter if she doesn’t understand all the words or read them all correctly, she loves…
Real or Fake?
I grew up having a real Christmas tree. I loved to go to the tree lots and spend almost an hour trying to pick out the perfect tree. Yet, I hated setting it up. Since I grew up without a father in the home and I was the oldest, many of the “manly” chores fell…
Turkeys and Flashing Lights…
What a Week! Twitter and Facebook has really killed my blogging! Does anyone write posts in their head, then send a tweet and forget about blogging? Well, I had an eventful week worth sharing… Last Friday, I was driving my kids home from school, singing show tunes, having a good time and actually going the…
Top 5 things I've learned about writing NaNo
They say copying is the greatest form of flattery, or something like that. And I’m copying Georgiana’s post. After you finish here and leave your comment/list, go check hers out! Top 5 things I’ve learned about writing NaNo… 5. That I still have to do some amount of research or I shut down, the story…
Thoughts on Thanksgiving and Community
I used to dread the holidays. Sometimes I still do. I grew up in a NY Italian family that celebrated every holiday together. Then I got married and moved away and holidays weren’t something I looked forward to anymore. At first it was me and hubby. I tried doing the festive thing for Thanksgiving and…