Crazy Kids & Eggnog

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Well, my kids are ready for Christmas!  How about your house?! Thankfully we have had snow.  The kids have spent a great deal of time sledding off their excited energy. It’s been cold, too cold to be outside sledding without a hat, but I am just happy Jonah will wear his coat.  As he and […]

The Next Few Weeks…

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are busy ones! I am going to suspend my “Wrapping up the Week” posts until 2011, unless I have a chance to do a Wrapping up the Year post. This week we are doing lots of Advent reading and a few crafts, I am working on finishing up some Christmas gifts.  We have our first […]

St. Lucy & The Jesse Tree

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We received plenty of snow over the weekend, just in time for St. Lucy’s Feast Day and our annual “Christmas Lights Tour”.  On Monday night we piled in the car, got hot chocolate, and drove around looking at Christmas lights.  It’s so much more festive when there is snow on the ground! We also started […]

Last Minute Gift Ideas

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❧ St. Francis Honey ❧ Mystic Monk Coffee ~ great gift packs and I love the Christmas mug ❧ Flannel Boards from Etsy ~ I have had fun shopping at Etsy this year.  It’s nice to get away from the plastic electronics at the toy stores. ❧ Netflix subscription ~ did you know you can instantly watch movies through the Wii game […]

Little Star

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Since today is the first Sunday of Advent, I am taking a little break from adoption talk to chat about Christmas.  A few weeks ago I was contacted by an author to take a look at his newest book.  The book is called Little Star written by Anthony DeStefano and illustrated by Mark Elliott. I […]

Christmas Countdown ~ Two Months

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I reviewed the list in my Christmas notebook of things I would like to have completed by Thanksgiving, which is November 25th.    ❧ Christmas cards ready and waiting to be mailed    ❧ St. Nicholas gifts ready (we do our stockings on the Feast of St. Nicholas)    ❧ December birthday gifts purchased    […]

Christmas Notebook, Again

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The Christmas Notebook has been a popular post lately, I am glad to see I am not the only one thinking about Christmas!  I plan to pull out my notebook this weekend and get going on several things:          ❧ Christmas cards – I printed off address labels last night.  I had […]

Christmas Notebook

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Here is my Advent/Christmas notebook.  As I mentioned it is very simple and basic, but it works.  Each year I add or modify it a bit to better fit what we need.   First, I have a list of the gifts we gave last year as well as all the receipts.  I will move this […]

Christmas Shopping?

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I know it’s July, but I have been thinking about Christmas already.  I know I am not alone, last week a commenter mentioned that she had her Christmas list done, and we attended a Christmas in July family picnic last weekend.  Over the last few years we have made an effort to simplify our Christmas. […]