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Easy to Make Gift Card Idea

Easy to Make Gift Card Idea

Here’s the situation: the teenager had a gift exchange at high school and she wanted to keep it simple with a Starby’s gift card and some Sour Patch Kids. (Yawn) But unfortunately for her, she’s my kid, and we can’t roll with straight up boring gifts. We did get the...
Christmas Advent Calendars for Everyone

Christmas Advent Calendars for Everyone

As a child, we didn’t have shelves at Michael’s or Hobby Lobby draped with green and red to signal that Christmas was around the corner. Our official countdown to Christmas began four Sunday’s prior when we lit the first candle in the Advent wreath at church. It had...
Elf on a Shelf Piano Concerto

Elf on a Shelf Piano Concerto

It was a big day around here: Christmas program day at school. Christmas party at school. Giving Christmas gifts at school. The operative word “school” means there’s an 8 a.m. deadline. “Big day” translates to Mommy is very, very tired...
Elf on a Shelf Stamping Project

Elf on a Shelf Stamping Project

Have Elf, will travel, Part 2 When we all went to visit the in-laws, Chintz, our Elf on a Shelf, hit the road. The Princess was really amazed yesterday when she woke to find that he was able to find her all the way in Louisiana, which is “really far, far, away”. You...

Elf on a Shelf Goes Visiting

Have Elf. Will travel. The Cupcake woke me up this morning, “Mom, hey mom. LOOK!” She’s pointing at the mirror at my in-laws house. 250 miles away from home. “Look, look at that paper on the wall!” “What? Paper on the wall?...