Weekly Photo Collage :: 12/14/2012 Nutcracker & Lights

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1.  On Sunday my mom and I took the girls to their first performance of the Nutcracker.  They had a great time, it got a bit long at the end, but they did well for their first time attending a performance. 2.  My Sister-in-Law made us these cute scrabble ornaments for Christmas this year.  My photo […]

Advent: Making Room in the Inn

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Advent Making Room in the Inn

Each year we try to pay more attention to Advent and not focus so much on Christmas, until it’s actually Christmas!  Making more time and more room in our hearts for Jesus. Each year I’m more convinced that less is more.  It works better for us to add a few simple things to our routine […]

Fitness Gift Ideas

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Have a fitness buff on your Christmas shopping list? Have a wanna be fitness buff on your list?  Here are 10 ideas to give the gift of fitness this Christmas and the whole year through.  1.  Jump Rope – doesn’t get any more basic or inexpensive than this!2.  Thigh Toner Band – many easy exercises […]

Weekly Photo Collage :: 12/7/2012 Poems & Latin

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Recently the girls have been obsessed with watching High School Musical on Netflix.  I have gotten lots of hand me downs from my sister’s girls and had remembered seeing High School Musical pajamas somewhere in the piles.  When I came across the night shirt and gave them to Leah, she acted like she won a […]

12 Days of Christmas

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Advent is over, Christmas Day has now passed us by.  I think, aside from the bug that is going from child to child, we had a good Christmas Eve/Day.  The kids were happy with their presents.  We’ve indulged in too much good food and drink, now we are enjoying a semi quiet week. We didn’t […]

December Blogging Schedule

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My December blogging will be sporadic.  Aside from my wrapping up the week post for tomorrow {which I might not even do!}, I don’t have any big plans to blog for the month.  You know our ideas for Advent, so there’s no use beating a dead horse, right? St. Lucy’s Feast Day 2010 Aside from […]

{un}Wrapping up Christmas!

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On Thursday, Bob was home and took the kids to see Tangled so I could wrap presents and finish doing some cleaning.  They were all pleasantly surprised with the movie, even Bob.  I was happy to finish wrapping gifts and doing laundry so things could be a bit more peaceful on Friday. On Friday afternoon […]

Homemade Gift Items

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I thought I would share some of the semi-homemade items that we included in our gift bags this year.  I purchased reusable bags from a dollar store, I like gifts to be practical and useful too. Homemade Christmas Gifts: Here is a list of what was inside: bath salts or sugar scrub granola trail mix […]

Merry Christmas!!

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Christ is born for us! Come, let us adore him, alleluia! “Let us adore him in silence, while he, still a mere infant, seems to comfort us by saying: Do not be afraid, “I am God, and there is no other” (Is 45:22). Come to me, men and women, peoples and nations, come to me. […]

Chocolatey Goodness

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Mrs. Claus’s Peppermint Wonders* Chocolate – Mint Brownies *recipe from Kids in the Holiday Kitchen Brownies 3/4 cup chopped walnuts (I omit these) 8 oz butter 5 oz semisweet chocolate, chopped 2 oz unsweetened chocolate, chopped 1 cup granulated sugar 1 1/2 t vanilla 1/2 t salt 2 large eggs 7 T all-purpose flour Frosting […]