Christmas Recap

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Christmas is a wonderful, wonderful time.  I think we are in the “prime” years of Christmas and childhood.  The kids are filled with anticipation the whole month and find joy in all aspects of Christmas festivities - family parties, seeing the lights, Christmas decorations, cookies for Santa, letters to Santa, elf on the shelf – the whole nine yards.  Christmas [...]

And… We’re Back!

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Ever year I’m blown away with how quickly Christmas comes and goes. Christmas is a wonderful, magical time of year for me.  I wish it could last longer.  I intended on blogging throughout the Christmas season, but as life goes – I was busy!  Part of the reason I was especially busy this year was [...]

Books for Christmas

Christmas Books

Last year I saw an idea on someones blog for a Christmas book advent calendar.  They had 24 different Christmas books and wrapped them in cute wrapping paper.  Each night before bed, they would unwrap a Christmas story and read it as a family.  I loved the idea so I immediately went to Amazon.com and [...]