As I enjoy this holiday season with my family, I’d like to share some of my favorite posts from 2010… You know the old saying. An apple a day…is just about impossible to get my kid to eat. Not the way you remembered it?  When my daughter was a toddler, I was sure nutrition would…

As I enjoy this holiday season with my family, I’d like to share some of my favorite posts from 2010… Summer is a great time of year to experiment with fun and healthy foods. With the kids home for the summer, meal time is more flexible and foods don’t need to be school approved or…

As I enjoy this holiday season with my family, I’d like to share some of my favorite posts from 2010… I have this theory.  Okay, so I have lots of theories, but this particular one involves you, me, and the women of Jane Austen’s novels.  Have you ever felt as though you were raised to…

As I enjoy this holiday season with my family, I’d like to share some of my favorite posts from 2010… I love this grainy old picture of me, and not because I was much thinner and had the long, flowing tresses that twenty-one year olds actually have the time and energy to maintain.  I love…

As I enjoy this holiday season with my family, I’d like to share some of my favorite posts from 2010… In Winter the World tells us Christmas is here, With holly and garland on each Mickey ear. Hot cocoa and brownies great each merry guest as the Magic Kingdom shows us its best. With parties,…

As I enjoy this holiday season with my family, I’d like to share some of my favorite posts from 2010… Last month my family went on a one week vacation to Walt Disney World. We had fabulous service at parks, restaurants, and our hotel, enjoyed countless rides and entertainment, and even found something exciting to…

As I enjoy this holiday season with my family, I’d like to share some of my favorite posts from 2010… As parents we are bombarded with products that will help us care for our children and the stockpile of plastic things that come along with raising a kid. But there are always those little things…

As I enjoy this holiday season with my family, I’d like to share some of my favorite posts from 2010… As parents, we need to have an ever-changing bag of tricks to deal with the challenges of parenthood.  My nemesis is space.  I am constantly looking for new places to store items that make sense,…

Pink Puppy knows that Christmas is only three days away as he peeks out from under our Christmas tree, waiting anxiously to meet my eight month old niece. Wordless/Wordful Wednesday Linky Did you post a Wordless or Wordful Wednesday today?  Link up here!

It happens every year.  I begin to get excited about the holiday season right after my birthday the beginning of November.  First comes the joy that my family will have a four day weekend for the Thanksgiving holiday.  This is quickly followed by the anticipation of Christmas: the making of the lists, the buying of…

Every year when I place this beautiful, hand made angel at the top of our Christmas tree, I can’t help but laugh a little bit thinking about how she came into my life. One Christmas during my college years, my mother handed identical boxes to my now sister-in-law and to me.  This wasn’t surprising.  She…

In past years I wrote a series of holiday gift guide posts, but this year I decided to focus just on one category.  I hope that you’ll enjoy these gift ideas, and please add some of your own in the comments section as we all begin our last minute shopping! Toys for Boys Adventure Heroes:…

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I went to school with a girl I will call Jilly from pre-school all the way through high school graduation.  We were close friends off and on, playing together in the afternoons, attending the same sleepovers, occasionally participating in the same activities.  But there was a side of Jilly that I never liked that drove…

My pastor has an incredible sense of humor.  There are times when the entire congregation is left in stitches because of his (often unintentional) jokes, but there are also those little moments where we just roll our eyes and smile as if to say, “Oh, that crazy Kevin.” The moment in the service that some…

I need a place where I can hide, Where no one sees my life inside, Where I can make my plans, and write them down So I can read them. – “The Girl I Mean to Be” from The Secret Garden During my junior year of college I studied in London for one semester.  While…

Last weekend we went on a super surprise getaway to Walt Disney World to recharge our batteries before the holiday season slipped away from us.  I was thrilled to get the last room available at the Wilderness Lodge thanks to a cancellation and my persistence on WaltDisneyWorld.com.  Because the Wilderness Lodge was where we stayed…

With holiday parties in full swing from Christmas open houses to New Year’s Eve bashes, many of us will be on the road this holiday season.  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Ad Council are reminding everyone that the best way to keep your family safe it to plan ahead and designate a…

You know the drill.  We’ve all been there.  You’ve saved for a couple of years to take your family on the dream vacation of a lifetime, and five minutes into the first day at least one of your children is in tears because you won’t let him have a six inch tall stuffed animal that…

I’m going to admit right now that I am not the world’s greatest housekeeper.  My idea of organization is neatly stacked piles.  My idea of clean is quickly swept heavily trafficked areas and sanitized bathrooms and kitchens. And yet, I know what I don’t like when it comes to cleaning my house.  I don’t like…