Poem Tree
House is clean
Evergreen
Shopping’s done
Time for fun!
Christmas morn
Savior born
Santa came!
Yule-log flame
Gifts galore
Still there’s more!
Garbage bag
Save the tag!
Package bow
Mistletoe
Decoration
Celebration
Turkey again
…our Lord, Amen
Canes of candy
Drinks with brandy
Jingle-bells
Story tells
Play with toys
Christmas joys!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
9 View from bridge
Just like many others we were travelling on Christmas Eve. We had an open house to go to at my husband’s sister’s house but we were travelling for another reason too. My step daughter is having a baby. Continue reading
Caroler (felt-tip pen on marker paper)
I think it’s kind of funny when you start out strong singing a Christmas song then as you realize you only know the first couple lines, start mumbling to the tune and then follow it up with loud chorus singing. Even with many of the classics I really only know the first and maybe second stanzas.
Christmas music gets me into the holiday spirit! One of my favorite activities is to light a pine scented candle (a necessity with an artificial tree) and listen to Christmas music while arranging holiday decorations, wrapping gifts, or any other holiday prep activity. Continue reading
Printable gift-tags and bows in assorted colors
My 3 year old son has more than once said he loves Grandma, Mommy, & Daddy because we buy him things! I don’t think he is spoiled. I don’t think we BUY him too much. I was mildly disgusted until I thought about it for a while. Giving gifts has been around since the beginning of mankind. People give gifts to show appreciation, generosity, and caring. That is love isn’t it? Continue reading
Here is a holiday gift from me to you! Click on this link to download a color and black & white PDF paper-doll printable: Annabelle’s Holiday Party
Annabelle's Holiday Party
I love paper-dolls! Here are a few from Amazon that are hard to resist! Continue reading
Made in America: Gift Guide
American Flag Gift
ABC World News had a series recently called Made in America which brought to life just how little of what we buy is American made anymore. They took a typical family and removed everything from their home that was not made in America – basically the entire contents of their home! Then they began the near impossible task of replacing everything with American made goods. An example – it took them like 2 days to find an American made coffee-maker! A big point to this exercise was that if we buy more American made products we can create more American jobs!
“If each of us spent just $64 on American made goods during our holiday shopping, the result would be 200,000 new jobs.” Continue reading
Abstract with foam blocks (complete with bite-marks)
How to appease your impatient mid December children
If your children are like mine they are starting to get unbearably impatient for Christmas especially my 3 ½ year old son who keeps asking if it’s Christmas yet. When I tell him not yet he cries real tears!
My solution? I discovered this by accident and it’s brilliant! The kids came down to the basement with me to get the holiday decorations and they discovered a bunch of old toys. I know this will create more work later (when I have to pack them away again) but they are having a BLAST rediscovering those old things! Even toys that they have grown out of are full of nostalgic fun for them. You are probably thinking, that’s crazy I am trying to get RID of some toys to make room for all the new ones coming. Well, do that too! Pack up things they are not playing with (when they are not around of course) but by bringing toys from storage back into the mix you will help tide them over and maybe even (now this is lofty) be happy with a shorter list for Santa…
