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Happy Things Friday: 10 January

Well, the first Happy Thing on my list is a surprise visit from my sister who flew up from South Carolina yesterday with her oldest daughter (who is currently expecting my parents’ first great-grandchild)….

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Jan, 10, 2025
  • 29 Comments

Chapter Twelve: December + 2024 Book Title

I’m back! It’s a rare two-post day on the blog. For reasons that will soon be revealed, this space will be (mostly) silent on Monday and Tuesday next week. Also, we’re well into 2025…

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  • Creativity, Life
  • Jan, 09, 2025
  • 23 Comments

It’s Time To Talk 2024 Finances (Yes, There Is a Pie Chart)

Hot on the heels of discussing Christmas gifts, I figured I might as well do a budget roundup from 2024. I find posts of this ilk are either deeply fascinating or horrifically boring depending…

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  • Budget, Home, Money, Personality Insights, Thrifting
  • Jan, 09, 2025
  • 49 Comments

Christmas Treasure Hunt 2024

Today marks my final Christmas Gifts of 2024 post. (I promise!)

Years ago we came up with the idea to create a Christmas morning treasure hunt for the kiddos with a series of clues leading…

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  • Christmas, Parenting, Paris
  • Jan, 08, 2025
  • 50 Comments

Bible Verse Clues: A Christmas Tradition

We celebrated Belle’s first Christmas with dear friends. And that was the year they introduced us to one of their beloved family traditions. A few years later we had adopted it as our own!

On…

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  • Christmas, Faith, Parenting
  • Jan, 07, 2025
  • 32 Comments

Christmas Recap 2024: Gift Edition

The gifts are unwrapped and most are already in various states of use and play. As previously noted, we exchange a lot of gifts at Christmas (I explained more about that here) and there…

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  • Christmas, Holidays, Home, Thrifting
  • Jan, 06, 2025
  • 37 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 3 January

I am acutely aware of the fact I did not give myself a sufficient runway to finish out my blogging schedule for 2024.

I have so many more things to discuss about Christmas! And…

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  • Christmas, Happy Things Friday
  • Jan, 03, 2025
  • 46 Comments
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