Christmas

Thank you so much to Crystal’s Craft Spot for introducing me to Tip Junkie’s binder of 25 Christmas stories to read with your family! I am going to print mine off tonight and set up the binder tomorrow. Oh, and there are instructions on how to make this beautiful book cover!

Santa Claus is coming to town. I don’t have decorations up (yet, although that’s the plan for today before the kiddos return from their grandparents’). I also don’t have our Christmas cards written and in the mail (but I do have the list updated). And I almost forgot about Santa Claus letters. Egad! Thankfully they are a little young that they wouldn’t have been devastated but still!!! There are 11 days to get my letter in to Santa and to get him to write back. I am going to make a template and get all the kiddies (daycare and my

I am getting into the Christmas spirit! I’m on my second Christmas book, I’ve been knitting and crocheting since June so I have a lot of gifts made. Currently I’m making a cardigan for one lucky recipient and I have the back 97% done. 🙂 The Christmas lights have been put up and turned on this past week, I painted the front and garage doors a nice red this week so they are ready for wreaths and the plan is to get out the Christmas decorations. I want to get the tree done but the hubby wants to wait as

I have been following the 100 day Countdown to Christmas and have received some wonderful ideas for preparing for Christmas 2009. Only 40 days left! Today’s post is about sibling gifts. My children are only 1 and 3 years old so it’s not going to be that much of an issue for a few years but it would be a fabulous tradition to start. A great idea is to “set up Mom’s Store every Christmas with objects she had been collecting throughout the year that she knew would interest her children. …Designate a place in [your] home as Mom’s Store,

I am feeling rather ambitious this holiday season. I joined a cookie exchange where we were to bake 30 DOZEN cookies. Yep, me the non-chef, non-baker to make 30 DOZEN cookies! I am so naive that I didn’t realise just how much it was. Let’s just say I am very grateful to my mother who pretty much baked a whole ten dozen on her own while I was visiting a few weekends ago. I then took an entire day to bake another ten dozen. And then I was done. I couldn’t look at dough any more to bake the last