3 Fun Places to Shop Online

Favorite Places to Shop Online

Today I want to share with y’all my new favorite online stores. These stores have cute stuff, perfect for your Christmas list. #1. Marley Lilly is the most fun place to shop online. I am not sponsored by Marley Lilly, nor am I an affiliate. This does not make me any money to say this. I just love this place. You can order anything monogrammed from Marley Lilly, and it does not come all the way from China! This stuff […]

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The New Perfect Christmas Gift Giveaway 2020

Personalized Locket Giveaway!!

I am so happy to announce our first giveaway in months, and it is an EXCITING one, just in time for Christmas! ***This post and giveaway are sponsored by Picturesongold.com. All opinions are my own.*** Let me tell you all about what you could win in this giveaway from PicturesonGold.com. This is a $140.00 value sterling silver locket with your chosen photos laser engraved into the locket. That is my favorite part about it. You do not have to go […]

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Our Favorite Red Velvet and Pound Cake Recipes

our favorite red velvet cake recipe

I don’t know about you, but at Christmas, I do a TON of baking….mostly because I don’t have enough money to buy people things they want, but by golly I can BAKE things people want. Right? We are so lucky in our family because we have all these delicious recipes handed down from generation to generation. Maybe it’s the French heritage in my mother’s side, or the fact that they were so gifted in the kitchen no one would ever […]

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The Christmas Giveaway: a Personalized Locket!

Personalized Locket Giveaway!!

I have a fun Christmas surprise! The nice folks at Picturesongold.com have supplied me with ANOTHER locket to give away! This giveaway doesn’t end until 11:59 PM Christmas day! Hooray!!! I’m including my original review of picturesongold.com’s lockets for you to see how awesome they are. The giveaway form is at the bottom of this post. Best of luck!! ***I was not paid to write this review. All opinions are my own.*** Living  in the South has ignited a passion […]

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REAL life starts again tomorrow. Oh, yes, the kids are going back to school!

We just finished the longest Christmas vacation ever. 3 weeks!!! Full weeks!! It was a blast.  It was genuinely fun because we didn’t spend the whole 3 weeks in any one place. We went south, then we went north, then we went home, then we went back south, then back home. We had a good time with it! And we were terrible. Truly terrible. We let the kids stay up as late as 10 some nights. I know. The shame! […]

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This Christmas: 1st Year at Home, 1st Non Disaster Story

This might have been the easiest Christmas in 14 years of April and Alan family Christmases. We only had to travel two hours, and we woke up on Christmas morning IN OUR OWN HOUSE. Have you ever??? I mean, we had almost never!! Do you do this? Do other people do this every year??  It was so nice! I mean have you read my other Christmas stories??? Our Nightmare Before Christmas The Funeral, Christmas Trip New Years in San Francisco […]

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Persistence: My Word for 2017

The Christmas presents have all been opened, the grandparents have all been visited, the cousins have been played with, and the tree…..well, the tree is still up. It’s pretty. I’m reluctant to take it down. And today is New Year’s Eve. Time to pick a goal, a resolution, a plan!!! Or as my adorable little boys say, “It’s time for our New Year’s revolution!” That makes me smile every time. So did you set goals? I have goals in mind, […]

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Our Top 10 Stories from 2016: The Drama Year

Christmas is over, and boy, was it a good one. In the photo above, all 4 boys were watching the clock intently. Christmas truly is magical for children. I’m so thankful for a Christmas when my kids were healthy, we didn’t have to fly, there were no funerals to attend, and all went smoothly. Now on to the new year! 2016 was all about drama. Yep. Drama. I’m hoping 2017 will be more about persistence and less about big things […]

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2016 Christmas Gift Guide for Tween Boys, Ages 8-12

Top Pre-Teen Boy Picks: Ages ~8-12 #1. Popular Video Games this Christmas: Our sons don’t have any of these yet, and all three are on my oldest’s list. His nonna has already claimed the basketball one, and I took care of the Skylanders, thanks to this incredible deal that Amazon is running right now on it. (That’s a link that’ll take you to it. So yes, this whole page is chock full of affiliate links.)             […]

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Fun Way to Teach the True Meaning of Christmas, with Giveaway!

John David is 3 years old, but he already knows that Christmas equals presents. He is also fully in love with Santa Clause, aka the King of Christmas. And in all fairness, who wouldn’t love a man who shows up once a year just to give you all the things you wanted???? Sign me up for that! So you might be wondering why I’m talking about Christmas in October, but the thing is that if you are planning a children’s […]

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