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Last weekend Maddie and I took a mother-daughter day trip to Crystal Bridges Museum. It’s in Bentonville, Arkansas, which is less than two hours from where we live in Missouri. The Norman Rockwell exhibit was there and Maddie, who is an art student, wanted to take a look. Our family has [...]
Do you ever give cash gifts to kids? I know that my kids love getting gift cards or cash. For some reason, I always feel like I’m cheating if I don’t think of the perfect thing for somebody, but when it comes down to it, if I don’t have a great idea I [...]
This is a fun DIY gift idea for etched mason jars. I don’t know about you, but I think that mason jars are one of the greatest inventions of all time. They are sooo useful. They make me think of canning with my mom, which is something I’d like to do a lot [...]
Yes, you read that right. It’s still Christmas here. The tree is still up and so is the nativity scene. I LOVE this part of Christmas. I don’t feel that deep joy of Christmas until Christmas Eve when we’ve made it to church. Up until that moment, I’m a stress ball. The planning [...]
I hope you all had a wonderful break with your families. I sure did. It’s back to normal life around here, with my husband back at work after his stay-cation and my high school student back in school. My college kids have a couple of weeks of break left – lucky kids! Today’s [...]
Earlier this week my daughter was in the middle of finals. She had one morning to sleep in amidst all the late night studying, projects, work and school. But she couldn’t do it because the sun peeks through her blinds in just the wrong way. When she mentioned it to me, I knew I could [...]
Hello sweet readers. This has been a very busy volunteer week for me, so I haven’t been crafting or writing posts this week. Since I had about five readers last year, I thought I’d share a few DIY Christmas gift pictures from back then that most of you haven’t seen. The idea is to make [...]
We have a new tennis ball snowman wreath on our door. It’s actually the wreath that I made earlier this year, just upcycled even more. Remember this?
A funny story about this wreath is that one of our trick-or-treaters saw it hanging on the door, pointed [...]
The weekend after Thanksgiving is our traditional gingerbread house making time. We normally use the pre-bought houses so we can spend our time decorating. We buy extra candy and construction supplies {pretzels, or whatever else we think might be good} because we always have ideas that go beyond what we could do with [...]
We believe. It has so many meanings. Miracle on 34th Street is one of my favorite movies. I love the We believe part of that movie where people from all walks of life show that they believe in Santa Claus. We believe at our house, too. Yes, our kids are in high school [...]
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