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Happy New Year Everyone!! Are you planning anything fun for this evening? We are planning to have a family slumber party with some friends and their kids this evening. Exciting day for my kids who typically don’t get to do slumber parties or sleep overs. Should be a fun filled evening of good food, fellowship and I’m sure some kid craziness! My kids helped me make some Muddy Buddies earlier (ya not really a sugar free / grain free but a family tradition ) to bring tonight and I am working on some fun count down activity bags for the kids. FUN times ahead!!

So on a different topic…Menu Plans. This coming week I am planning some simple tried and true budget friendly recipes. They are for the most part Sugar Free / Grain Free / Dairy Free aswell.

Sunday –

I LOVE Christmas! I also love this time after Christmas…it is calm, not a lot going on outside the house, there is time to just be home, time to clean the house, put away ornaments, organize new toys and items. I love this time! I also love that as I get the house ready to start back into the new year there is time to reflect on this past year…the good times, the rough times, the struggles and the victories. Times when I can see God working in our lives, times when I have drawn near to him and times when I should have drawn nearer but instead allowed the world to pull me away. The thing I find about reflecting and listening for God’s nudgings is it allows me to see places where I can grow or change and allows me to refocus myClick here to continue reading

As we draw close to CHRISTmas I felt the desire to spend time daily with my kids preparing our hearts for this day. In our house it seems we are easily caught up in the worldy excitement that is put on this day and I have felt a strong desire to focus in on the TRUE meaning. For the next 12 days (14th-25th) we are going to use different symbols and Christmas crafts to focus on Jesus .

We will also be continuing to read a portion of the Christmas story daily using The Story of Christmas Advent Calendar.

For today’s symbol we started with one of my kids FAVORITE Christmas candies…the Candy Cane. I love that you can take such a simple candy and use it to share the Love

It is that time of year again…time to send out my yearly newsletter and Christmas Cards . I LOVE LOVE LOVE getting Christmas Cards in the mail and also LOVE sending our cards out to friends and family. In the past I have done many different types of Christmas Cards but have found that as I get busier I value the ability to order pre-printed cards. This year I am excited to be ordering from Tiny Prints! Earlier this year I ordered some calendars from them and they turned out amazing so I am sure my Christmas Cards will be great as well! After playing with the card selections I have it down to a couple cards…and would love to have your input on which one to choose!

OK, I have officially caught the pinterest bug and LOVE some of the ideas that I have found over the past few months!! Today I decided to use one of them as a project with my kids…we made Turkeys out of footprints! I have great plans for these and am hoping to have them finished by the weekend and displayed proudly in my front hall! For now I thought I would show off my one that is almost finished (the babies as she is too little to paint herself) and give a short tutorial on how we did this If you want to see the one I got the idea from check it out here.

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