So I totally snagged this idea from my friend, Julie, over at Jam-n-Jilly.blogspot.com  . It's organic sugar infused with perhaps one o...

Who cares if the snow was man made. Who cares if it was blown over the kids via a snow machine. To my daughter it is SNOW---pure, simple, m...

Without purposely doing so, it has become a little tradition of ours to go to a Live Nativity every year as part of our Christmas outings. ...

One never knows where the Elf on the Shelf will be sitting each morning.......assuming a certain someone has a good memory the night before...

Guess what I did this evening?---yup, filled out Christmas cards to drop in the mail manana. I must say, self adhesive stamps are one of th...

It's that time of the year where we are bundled up, heated car seats on, heater cranked up full blast, and Christmas songs playing on t...

More than all the ornaments, more than all the pricey Christmas displays, I think the little handmade Christmas arts my daughter brings hom...

Why didn't any of the 3 pigs make their house out of Gingerbread? These houses are so gosh darn hard to eat. The gingerbread walls are ...

A winter's day walk on the beach in the coat that Grandma made. Merry 12 Day of Christmas to you! Sealed with a Kiss, Kirsten S.W.A.K.

Inside the women's restroom earlier today: My daughter, the Queen of Fairies and Mermaids, pondered out loud, "Mom, I don't get...

Cinderella's Castle at Walt Disney World here in Florida is sooooo beautiful at Christmas time. The Fairy Godmother "flies" d...

Christmas shopping ....which always has to include trying out a gabillion perfumes. Ah-ah-ah-CHOOOO! Merry 10th Day of Christmas to you! S...

Reading together is our favorite thing to do. On this cold December night we read, How the Grinch Stole Christmas  by the beloved Dr. Seuss...

I think my favorite part of everyday this month has been just before dinner time when we light the candles on our Advent wreath in preparat...

Last Year, we bought the super popular  Elf on the Shelf   . In case you are one of the very few who do not know about the Elf on the Sh...

"Brown paper packages tied up with strings. These are a few of my favorite things!" Receiving Christmas packages from family in D...

Is it December 6th already? Oh my! I had hoped that by stopping to capture a bit of Christmas everyday for my blog would slow it down a bit...

 "Here's an easy game to play. Here's an easy thing to say.... New socks. Two socks. Whose socks? Sue's socks." Dr. S...

I've got sunshine on a winter day. I woke up this morning to find Custard Kitty still asleep in a spot of sun by the window. It is cold...

Oh how I love Tiffany blue! Aren't these ornaments super beautiful displayed in cake stands? What a nice idea! ....and far less fatteni...