Merry Christmas! Christmas 2012 is finally here! The kids are unwrapping packages and squealing with delight, coffee is brewing, carols are playing and families are enjoying time together. I have no plans to spend much time here blogging this morning, but I do want to take a few minutes and wish each of you a…
This past weekend we had the opportunity to enjoy a Smoky Mountain Christmas at Dollywood. We were excited to enjoy some great music, shows and make some memories with our family. When we got there, it was a gray, rainy day in Tennessee. But that didn’t make a difference to us. We had our umbrellas…
A few weeks ago, my daughter came home from school ‘over the moon’ excited about a book she had read at school. It was all about why the moon looks in your window at night. Have you ever wondered? It’s because the moon is listening to the nighttime stories that parents share with their kids…
Toy robots have come a long way since the days of tin robots with rotating arms. Today many can walk, talk and interact with their owner, remembering lessons that they’ve been taught or in some cases even work out how to play games with them. However, in a market full of toy robots – particularly…
Today, I watched Facebook come alive with status updates, news links and cries of Why? I found myself crying as more and more details emerged, till finally I had to stop working, walk away from my computer and phone and just process the tragic news coming from Connecticut. My 10 year old son wanted to…
I love reading special books together with the kids at night before bed. During the Christmas season, we pull out the special holiday books and enjoy them before storing them away till next year. Last week, I received another classic Lisa Tawn Bergren book in the “God Gave Us” series. We already love these books….
One year my Mom decided she had figured out a no-fail way to keep us from figuring out what the Christmas gifts were. Her idea was going to settle all the sneaking under the tree that naturally happens when you have 2 young teens and a elementary school boy excited about Christmas. Since the title…
How many of you have pinned multiple recipes to pinterest and then never tried them? Do you have hundreds of great ideas that you want to try but haven’t attempted? At Thanksgiving, my sister brought a great Cookie Dough No Bake Dessert and told me she had found the recipe on Pinterest. It was so…