Thanksgiving Day is one of my favorite days of the year and it’s definitely worth a little extra notice, especially with Christmas sales and decorations popping up earlier and earlier every year. I was looking through my Thanksgiving recipes this morning and was reminded of a fun and simple Thanksgiving craft that is perfect…
The Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast Recipe Collection #Foodie
Thanksgiving dinner is officially my favorite meal of the entire year. I’ve collected some of my favorite recipes along with recipes from across the internet – from appetizers to side dishes to turkey to desserts – to create this Thanksgiving Feast Foodie recipe collection. This post is sponsored by Foodie but all thoughts are…
Grandma’s Pumpkin Pudding Cake
I love fall baking! One of my favorite recipes – one that I grew up eating – is pumpkin pudding cake. It was a regular at all of our fall and winter family gatherings when I was growing up (what I really mean is that someone had BETTER make the pumpkin pudding cake any…
Turkey-Cranberry Panini {Thanksgiving Leftovers Recipe} #15MinuteSuppers
I love Thanksgiving. I love spending all day in the kitchen cooking a dozen different dishes. After nearly two decades of cooking Thanksgiving dinners, I’ve got my system down pat….and as long as the rest of the family steps in to wash dishes every once in a while and preps the rest of the house…
Thankful {PSF – Give Me Your Best Shot}
Since I’m sure most of you are either eating Thanksgiving dinner, recovering from eating Thanksgiving dinner, preparing for Black Friday shopping….or recovering from Black Friday shopping, I will keep today’s post short and sweet. I am thankful for so many things. For a supportive, loving, flexible family. For friends that make me smile. For…
Caramel Apple Mini Cheesecakes #JelloHoliday
Brought to you by JELL-O. Anything can go wrong during the holidays. Except these recipes. When I was growing up, the holidays meant family gatherings, and I’ll never forget how my aunts and uncles and cousins, along with my parents and siblings and I, filled up my grandparents’ little house in California. We all drove…
My Kind of Thanksgiving #MyKindofHoliday
This post is brought to you by Target, but all thoughts, opinions and family stories are my own. When I was growing up in Northern California, Thanksgiving meant cousins and aunts and uncles and Grandma and Grandpa (but mostly cousins) and lots and lots of food. Thanksgiving meant that we could finally start playing…
Free Birds Movie – Kiwi Crate (Plus $25 VISA) Giveaway
Note: The following giveaway post is brought to you by Free Birds movie. I received the same giveaway prize pack but all thoughts are my own. The holidays are FAST approaching (do you feel it, too?!). One of our favorite holiday traditions is heading to the theater the day after Thanksgiving to see a…
A Week of Thanksgiving – Books
Thomas Jefferson once said, “I cannot live without books.” I don’t remember learning how to read, but I remember reading. My mom read to me daily. She read books like Where the Red Fern Grows and A Wrinkle in Time. We read them over and over. And then I found my own books and devoured…
A Week of Thanksgiving – A Job
I have a lot to be thankful for. I really do. The problem is….lately I tend to overlook my blessings and focus on the stresses that are so overbearing. When my friend Andrea from Lil-Kids-Things told me about A Week of Thanksgiving, I knew this was an exercise I needed for myself. Today, I am…