Happy New Year! Thanks for stopping by! I hope you had a wonderful December filled with great memories and delicious food. I always feel like I have to eat all. the. sweets. around Christmas time because we really only make these special treats once a year. Truth be told, I always eat way too much…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! It truly is. But it is also the busiest time of the year!! I always look forward to the joy and happiness and other feelings that come around Christmastime, but I also feel incredibly tired just thinking about all the happens in the month of December. Didn’t…
October and Halloween were fun, but my favorite months of the year (by far!) are November and December. My favorite holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas, are right around the corner. I love the planning and the anticipation and all the great food! I also love hunkering down, wearing cozy sweaters, and sipping hot chocolate from a…
The weather has gone from really nice and still pretty warm to cold and windy seemingly overnight. The pumpkins are out at all the grocery stores and pumpkin patches, and the gorgeous colors of the leaves indicate to me that fall is definitely here to stay! My Pinterest pins all have something to do with…
When I was a little girl living in Canada our school started after Labor Day. This was always the holiday where we could spend the day in the kitchen helping my mom can peaches + getting everything ready that we needed for school. Since moving to the States I have not been able to carry…
It’s been a great summer so far, and I can’t believe that school is just around the corner! I’ve already been shopping my kids’ back to school supplies lists, stocking my pantry with lots of options for back-to-school lunches, and getting ready to homeschool a preschooler (I’m homeschooling just for the preschool year – wish…
I’m a few days late posting this – the weather has finally warmed up where we are and the rain has subsided…at least for now. So for now we are soaking up all the sunshine and hoping it doesn’t start to rain again! We are excited for the Fourth of July and getting together with…
Another month, another calendar! These days are just zooming on by. Summertime completely snuck up on me. I can’t believe my kids are already out of school and the lazy days of summer are already here – though can you consider them “lazy” when you’ve got five kids to entertain?! haha.I’ll be spending a little…
I love this time of year – when tulips show off their colors and the trees are covered in little pink and yellow flowers. Our peach trees have thousands of blossoms which means there are good things to come! We just had our 5th child a few weeks ago so I’m trying to get into…
Spring has finally arrived in our neck of the woods! I am so excited to have some sunny weather! I can’t wait to go for walks around the block, work in my garden, play outside with my kids, and just enjoy the warmer weather. April, especially, is going to be great – our church has it’s…
February seems to have just flown by! I know it’s shorter than all the other months, but only by 2 or 3 days – surely those few days can’t make that much of a difference, right? Apparently, they do because I can’t believe it’s March already. March is a relatively slow month for us – we’re…
I love “love month”! There is something so heart-warming about thinking of ways to make other people feel loved and special. At Christmastime a couple years ago we had a kind neighbor anonymously leave gifts at our door each night for the 12 days before Christmas. It was so amazing to see my children’s eyes…
Did you all have a fabulous Christmas break? I was so happy to have my kids home from school + my husband took some time off from work so that we could do some fun Christmas traditions and spend lots of time together. It was so much FUN! I loved every crazy, happy, relaxing second…