My friend Mary is stepping in today to weigh in on this hot trend: the Elf on the Shelf. We don’t have one at our house–mostly because we don’t want the extra work. Is that a good enough reason? 😉 No ill will meant towards the Elf per say, as Mary said, “For those of you who do the whole elf thing, you keep making elf magic. ” Some of us will happily sit this one out. Let’s hear from […]
» Read moreLet me tell you a story about the time we had our own real life nightmare before Christmas. There are times when things just don’t go the way that you had hoped. Embarking on a looong car trip with four children is a foolish brave thing to do. It all began around 10pm the night before we left. I walked into Dan’s room to get something, and I noticed he had a very wet sounding snore. “Oh no,” I thought. Around […]
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I love Christmas. Nothing makes me more happy than arranging Christmas decorations, baking cookies, taking road trips with the kids, and shopping in crowded malls! Wait. That’s not true. No, I don’t. No, I really really don’t. Not once this year have I said any of those things. Okay, so yeah, I’m a bit of a Scrooge. I hate the pressure of Christmas. –Crowded malls make me hot, like literally sweaty. I get overwhelmed and confused by […]
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