Peppermint Bark Here’s a recipe so ridiculously easy that it’s barely a recipe.  But, boy, is it yummy!  I love the way the vanilla bark mellows out the mints, and the mints add a breezy freshness to the vanilla bark. Preparation time: 10 minutes 2 cups mints 2  20-ounce packages of vanilla bark Melt...
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21 kids. 4 moms. 1 fellowship hall. 2 kinds of pretzels. 3 batches of royal icing. 8 boxes of graham crackers. several hundred pieces of candy. Christmas bliss. (Click on pictures to enlarge)
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You can also: See a video of my kids trying out Tom’s Toothpaste, and get a chance to win a $100 VISA gift card Win a copy of FAMILY FEASTS ————– Yesterday after spending most of the day running errands and visiting a friend, the kids and I got together for a short but...
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After bundling everyone out the door with my husband to go to Christmas program practice, I sit in an unusually quiet house.   I’m not even sure I want music, the quiet feels so welcome.  The Christmas tree gleams.  The fire flickers. Snow falls outside.  If I direct my eyes toward the Christmas decor and...
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…buying an article of clothing, getting it home, sitting down to wrap it, and then discovering the ink-filled anti-theft device is still firmly attached. Arg.
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Here’s a bit of our Christmas. You can click on any of the pictures to make them bigger. We had a wonderful two days. This is one Christmas we’ll never forget!
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–Scurrying around with John after the kids are in bed the night before Christmas Eve, getting ready for our Christmas Eve morning celebration –Hearing the kids starting to chatter in the morning. –Reading the Christmas story with everyone gathered around. (Yes, even when I know darned well the kids are staring at the gifts!)...
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Sometimes I think I am too hard on myself in the blogging department…thinking each post has to have MEANING– or, OK, at least a vague theme. But today I am in the mood for a ramble, so there. (And if you’re looking for meaningful, you can always count on Ann’s.) So, a few random...
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How Many Kings? Follow the star to a place unexpected Would you believe, after all we’ve projected, A child in a manger? Lowly and small, the weakest of all Unlikeliest hero, wrapped in his mother’s shawl - Just a child - Is this who we’ve waited for? ’cause… How many kings step down from...
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Due to a pending Christmas adventure (more on that later), we did a bit of early Christmas last evening, including the opening of four new games.  I am seriously thinking of letting kids open new games ahead of Christmas every year.   Many kids are happily playing with the new games right now– a great...
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