Just a little invitation for you to mossy on over to my other blog, Raphael's Bakery  , and check out the lavendery-purpley yummy cake...

This month, my daughter and I enjoyed the Jacksonville Historical Society Annual Gingerbread Extravaganza. We hadn't even opened the do...

Source I have a lovely true story to share with you about my other new blog...a food blog--- A story about Angels. And not just any angels,...

While shopping at a popular toy store this month, I noticed various signs along the aisles  advertising, "SAVE NOW" by texting a...

"Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!" Sealed with a Kiss, Kirsten S.W.A.K.

It's Christmas Eve! Time has flown and yet, stopping every day to blog a 25 day countdown has helped in making me stop to ponder the mo...

"He puzzled and puzzled till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! Maybe Christmas, he thou...

Warm winter boots. And Ed Hardy ones to boot! Merry 22nd Day of Christmas to You! Sealed with a Kiss, Kirsten S.W.A.K. 

Paper garland. I cannot think of one time in my childhood when I have made this. I've made tons of things and yet, I don't ever rec...

Is everyone as baffled as me that Pillow Pets are the most popular toy at the moment? My kid and the kids of my friends all have one on the...

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...