Wow, a whole year of has gone by! I have been encouraged by your sweet comments you have left and the emails sent sharing how you were blessed by an inspirational article, recipe or craft. Thank you, my readers rock! Our contributors rock! I shared with them last week how they truly inspire me with their recipes, crafts and reflective thoughts. They are so talented and I am so thankful that God crossed our paths. It's been a whirlwind year, of meeting wonderful bloggers, contributing on … [Read more...]
Christmas Shopping On a Budget Challenge and Tips
Christmas Shopping on a budget is definitely a challenge. For those of us who have done this before, I know you totally agree. Christmas time can be a stressful time for a lot of families, especially if you have more than one child to shop for. Stressed caused by sitting in holiday shopping traffic, spending stress, trying to find the right gift stress, just so busy stress..... Well, I recently found a way to relieve some of that stress, by doing some online shopping. Have you heard … [Read more...]
Cross Off Hunger – Making Life Better
I was parking my car in the high end part of town. I was on a date with my husband and we were heading to a restaurant in the area. I got out of the car to help my husband parallel park. As soon as I got out I saw a young pregnant girl walk toward us to help us park the car. On the side-walk, a little 2 year old boy runs in between my feet. Only God knows how long he had been out there helping his mother or if he had eaten. He was filthy, his face had streaks of dirt as if he had been crying … [Read more...]
Decluttering Toys for Charity
Decluttering toys for charity is the perfect Christmas tradition because not only do you get to simplify your life by decluttering and there is joy in giving it away to the less fortunate this holiday season. If you're a teacher, I think this would make a fabulous class project. Thanks to Mom it Forward for the Holiday Giving: 31 Days of Service challenge and to Stacy Teet for introducing us to this and organizing it. I don't know how many toys our boys have broken from stepping on them … [Read more...]
Christmas Baking: Salted Caramel Sweet Squares {Starbucks Inspired}
Salted Caramel Sweet Square Starbucks Wannabe bars is oh so very yummy. I love Starbucks little petite collection of goodies but let me tell you the price isn't so petite. So after love at first bite, of this yumminess I was determined to figure out how to make these at home. I think I have come close. This is part of my Christmas Baking with Kids series, as with all recipes and crafts figure out what your child is capable of helping with, can they crack eggs, take things out of the oven … [Read more...]
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