New Year Fun - 2014 in Review

Hello friends, well, here we are, the last few hours of 2014.  As with every year, I always do a Year in Review. I can tell you that I am very much looking forward to seeing this year behind me, so much has happened, so many sad moments, deaths of loved ones and some struggles. I'm waiting for …

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Happy Homemaker Monday - 12/29/2014

Good morning everyone, here we are, the last week of 2014, or rather, the last few days.  I can't believe that we are finishing up one more year of Happy Homemaker Monday. It's been going strong for a long time, much longer than I thought it would and I'm so thrilled about it. I do want…

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Winding down!

Oh goodness, I feel like I haven't been on my blog in forever, and truth be told, it really has been almost a week. Life has been full, absolutely full, of laughter, of family and food. It's been a wonderful past week, we had one of the best Christmas Eve's in a very long time, a freak…

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Blogmas 2014 - Day 23 Favorite Christmas Story

From Luke 2: 1-20 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, everyone into his …

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Blogmas 2014 - Day 22 A day in the life as we prepare for Christmas

Well, it's 9:30pm and I'm starting to type up this post. Let me just say that I am a gal who goes to bed around this time every night, but for the past week I have been staying up way later than usual, and I think my body is getting a little used to it.  Problem is that even though I'm…

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Happy Homemaker Monday - 12/22/2014

Good morning.  Oh boy, are you ready for this week?  Christmas week is finally here and I think my kids are bursting at the seams, quite frankly, I look forward to it more for them than for me. Is there anything like watching their faces when they open their presents? So anyway, I have a busy week …

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Blogmas 2014 - Day 21 Share your favorite Christmas poem or picture

Good morning from a very wet, rainy, cold Idaho. It's been pouring down for the past two days and I couldn't be happier, I really do love rainy days.  It's 9am and it looks so dark in my house, so it's fairie lights and candles today.......oh and lots of laundry, blech. Anyway, tod…

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Blogmas 2014 - Day 20 Last minute gift ideas

Ok, so another long day, but I had the family over and just wanted to have a day devoted to them without the computer being in the mix. Sometimes you just need one of those days, right? So, moving on to today's prompt which is about last minute gift ideas.  I have been good this year, and I ha…

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Blogmas 2014 - Day 19 Preparing for Christmas

Hello my friends, how are your Christmas preparations coming? I am glad to say that we are well under way here and pretty much on the home stretch. Today I spent most of the morning in the kitchen with Jasmine, she loves baking and was just on a mission. Oh goodness, I'm tired BUT I'm ha…

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