Mom! But I just want to add it to my collection! This is the pleading I hear from my 6 year old on an almost daily basis. Her collection. A collection of things the girl refuses to part with. And her collection is starting to concern me. Abbi has always been sentimental. She has an amazing memory [...]

Last year Abbi and I made this little Nativity scene, inspired by the clay pot Nativity craft from GRKids.com. This year, we are adding to our Nativity by creating some shepherds and sheep. Specifically we are creating 2 of each because Zoe is old enough to participate. Let’s get started!

Every year we take the kids to see Santa. We’ve fallen into a pattern of taking them to see Santa at Home & Company each year. He is such a great Santa! I wrote all about why we go there last year. So, this year I’m just going to share the pictures with you! The [...]

Merry Christmas, Katie! You just one an Interactive Story Buddy from Hallmark! My girls love books. And they love stories about Christmas! Matter of fact, our books about Christmas stay on their book shelf all year long and often times get read in the middle of the summer, as well this time of year. Their [...]

Yesterday I wrote about decorating our tree and I mentioned how the girls love adding their ornaments each year. That is another one of our Christmas Traditions — Selecting an Ornament! This isn’t something we did as kids. I remember my “baby’s first Christmas” ornament {a goldish plated metal ornament of a little baby with some [...]

I love Christmas trees! They are what seems to kick-off the Christmas season for me. I have a strict rule, though, that we do not put our tree up until after Thanksgiving. Because, once it is up, we’re focusing on all things Christmas! Our tree went up that first weekend of December and the girls [...]

When I got my first iPhone a few years ago, my oldest daughter was merely a toddler. And I remember sitting in the waiting room at some appointment and letting her play a game on my iPhone. The old lady next to me nosily chimed in, “That’s quite an expensive toy for a kid.” While [...]

Did you ever page through the Wish Book when you were a kid? Oh that thing was the best thing ever! I remember that my grandma would get the Wish Book a few weeks before Christmas and we would all take turns page through it, ear marking or circling the items we would just love [...]

La, la, la, la. La, la, la, la. Elmo’s World! If you’ve watched an episode of Sesame Street in the last 5 years or so, you totally have that song stuck in your head now! Sorry! But you’re going to thank me when I tell you that those lovable characters from the happiest street are [...]

We’ve spent a number of Halloweens with the Folletts since, well, before they were officially “the Folletts”! Before we all had kids, we used to spend our Halloweens going to haunted houses together. As a matter of fact, I’m pretty sure the first time Tara & Scott met was when we drug them both to [...]