If you are like me, a cookie exchange sounds like a fabulous idea, until the day before, when you have 859 important tasks to accomplish and NO COOKIES made. If you’re a procrastinator like I am, this recipe using a Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix, is going to be a Read more…
If you followed my blog for awhile you’ll know that I always lament about NEVER sending out holiday cards. Mostly because I never get the photos done, or never take quite the right photo. You see I am a fairly decent photographer, but I am beginning to realize that I Read more…
This post is a day late and a dollar short … that’s me these days. I can’t seem to get anything done in advance! Who am I kidding? I never have … probably never will, especially with an attitude like this. Oh well … Most importantly though, I did manage Read more…
I love getting Christmas cards. Sadly, because I never send them out, the number of cards coming in is starting to dwindle. Have I ever mentioned before, that I am a lazy woman? A very lazy woman who finds the task of picking out the Christmas photo cards, matching it Read more…
(as my cousins put it) … PUKED Christmas. Obviously, these homeowners LOVE to decorate. I have a hard time getting the tree up, so I can’t imagine doing this annually. ‘Griswold’s on CRACK’ was my description. Georgia informed me later that they thought the presents in the tree were beautiful. Read more…
Lizzy and I spent the evening making this gingerbread house log cabin. They have a gingerbread display at school, and of course tomorrow is the deadline. I wouldn’t want to take my time, plan, that would be too easy. We started with a kit and embellished (and embellished and embellished). Read more…
If your kids are like mine, their holiday wish-lists and my wish-lists for them are never quite the same. I wanted to make Georgia a handmade waldorf style baby doll. I showed her many, many photos and tried to talk her into it, but she’s firmly convinced that she wants Read more…
Thanks for all the emails making sure that I am alive and well! With my memory the way it is, I’m pretty sure I would have forgotten I have a blog if you all hadn’t reminded me. We had a great holiday filled with grandmas, grandpas, great-grandmas, uncles, aunts, great-aunts, Read more…
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I haven’t started decorating the house for Christmas. Mostly because, I’d have to clean it first, and well honestly, I just don’t feel like it. Georgia is getting pretty excited about the whole Christmas thing this year. She is always asking me to draw her Santas and Rudolphs. I thought Read more…