Holiday

The holidays are right around the corner, and time is flying by too fast. I am the mom of a toddler. While I should be super excited about Christmas and other big holidays, the questions continue to pour in as my daughter gets older. She hasn’t reached her Terrific Two’s yet, but I know that if I blink too long, she’ll been ten. Luckily shopping lists and recipes aren’t at the top of things I wonder about. As I see all the holiday invites and preparations, questions flood my brain. About what you ask? Santa Claus. No seriously. All the holiday traditions and fictional characters provoke conversations. I wonder about Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy. As a child, I...

I’m gonna let you in on a very well kept secret. Come in close, did you know we run Christmas traditions?!? Like us! You, me, and Cathy down the street! We are the ones that get to decide if our house is elf friendly, we buy the gifts, we run this thing! It took me longer than I care to admit to realize this. But now that I have, I’m jumping in head first! We’re shaking up Christmas in these parts! I’m putting my foot down, no more cookies! Alright, simmer down all you keyboard warriors! I’m not calling a freeze on Christmas altogether, just the cookies. You see, even though we make adorable & delicious sugar cookies as a business,...

2019 is finally coming to a close. For some of us, we are grateful it is over, and for others, we may be sad to see such a wonderful year-end. One thing we can all look forward to, is starting a new year with less baggage and worries. Let us clean out our closets, drop those drama-filled "friends" and wake up on January first with less burden filled hearts. January has always felt like the calmest month to me. The craziness of the holidays is over and most of us are all too tired to do much of anything in January, so my suggestion is to use January as your transition month. Transform into the new year with less stuff,...

I'm sure there are a few of you who think vision boards are just a fad. I promise you, they work (if you use them correctly). A vision board is a collage (digital or not) that is comprised of different images that will depict what you want in life for the following year. In December of 2018, I said I wanted to do a vision board. Now, I tried this before and failed miserably. I didn't take it seriously and didn't follow through with my goals. 2019 was MY YEAR. I claimed it. I knew it. I spoke it into existence. And that it was. I accomplished majority of what I put on my vision board and then some. My focus...

I keep seeing posts about not giving toys for holidays. Instead, gifting experiences. Can I please tell you... I AM HERE FOR IT! Our house feels like it is bursting at the seams with toys when my children have just as much fun playing in a cardboard box. As much as I love the thought of experiences, I wasn’t really sure how to implement it in our family. Until now... I decided to make gift cards for my daughters and niece. The gift cards would be for things for us to go do with my niece - not just for her parents to do with her. For example, going to get donuts one morning, at-home pedicures, going bowling, baking cookies, going...