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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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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 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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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 Recap 2024: Food, Traditions, What Worked and Other Notes

I think this was my favourite Christmas from adulthood.

The kids were healthy. The adults were (mostly) healthy. The food was amazing. We had a white Christmas. The kids were old enough to sleep in,…

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Christmas, Family, Food, Habits, Holidays, Planning
Jan, 02, 2025
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Ten Chores I Wouldn’t Be Sad To Never Do Again

Happy New Year! Is anyone else feeling dazed and confused by the fact it is already 2025? Just me?

Hot on the heels of setting mantras and fun ideas for the year to come, I…

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Home, Personality Insights, Pet Peeves, Random
Jan, 01, 2025
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Guest Post: Welcome Kelsey!!!

Friends, consider this post a belated Christmas gift. Kelsey is stopping by my corner of the internet for a visit and I am so. darn. excited!

I know many of you are already die-hard fans,…

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