My kids and I traditionally decorate our Christmas tree together each December. This year, however, we took decorating the Christmas tree to a whole new level and created something that we will hopefully be keeping around as a Christmas decoration for years to come. We were sent a recycled cardboard Christmas tree from Cascades Boutique…
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This Photostory Friday is like the Holidays. Busy.
The hours and minutes seem to accelerate during the Holidays, and despite the fact that there’s so much to do and so much to keep track of, these holiday experiences are the moments I enjoy the most out of the entire year. For today’s Photostory Friday and Give Me Your Best Shot, I have a…
Tempur-Cloud Pillow from Tempur-pedic
I sleep with 3 pillows: a shaped memory foam pillow for my head and neck, a well-loved body pillow that I got for Mother’s Day 1999, and a squishy pillow for my back. If CandyMan happens to fall asleep before me and takes one of my pillows, I WILL wake him up to steal it…
Kindred Spirits
I’m recording my youth, one year per week. This week I’m talking about life in the 8th grade (age 13). I can’t think of eighth grade without thinking of Amy. As cheesy as Anne Shirley’s term “kindred spirits” might be, it really is the best description of the kind of relationship Amy and I had….
Party in a Box (a Mozaik Giveaway)
Over the weekend, while my dad was in town, my sister and two nieces gathered at my house for a big pre-holiday family dinner. When I’m feeding a crowd, I really don’t like to use regular dishes because the clean-up afterwards takes as long as the food preparation before the meal….Especially when the dishwasher is…
Smiles for Grandpa
Despite the fact that two of my children refused to smile for this group picture with Grandpa on Sunday and were sent to their rooms (darn kids ruined a perfectly good photo for posterity) this picture makes me smile. I smile because I can hear the kids playing and laughing with Grandpa. I can picture…
Big Girls Need Their Daddies, Too
When I was a little girl, small enough to still fit on my dad’s lap, I needed my daddy for many things. I needed daddy to help me with my math homework, to put a band-aid on a cut, to reach something high on the shelf. Daddy was big and he was strong and he…
Mourning my Microwave
When CandyMan and I got married in April 1995, one of our first purchases on that big wedding-money-shopping-spree was a microwave. I purposefully bought the largest microwave I could find, with all the bells and whistles, similar to this GE Profile, because I knew that we’d be using it a lot. And I wanted something…
Link Up Your Giveaways Here!
Winner Announcement: Jennifer from MommyB Knows Best won my Stella & Dot giveaway…Congratulations!! The My True Nature Bath set giveaway is still on, and needs more entries. It ends on Thursday, December 16. Plenty of time to get your entries in! This week will bring some pretty amazing giveaways, including a very special pillow and…
Favorite Holiday Recipes
I have been cooking for the holidays for 14 years now. Most of the dishes that I cook for the holidays (Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter) are the dishes that were my favorites when I was growing up, attending big holiday family gatherings. So, for your eating pleasure……the Better in Bulk favorite family recipes: Grandma Betty’s…
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