i love this season of giving! i get really excited to plan out what gifts will make my kids smile on christmas morning. i love when my kids' schools ask for donations for food banks or toy drives. i love that my kids think of something special they want to give their teachers. and i love that in our ...
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christmas playdough mats
christmas is my favorite time of year!! i love the lights, i love the music, i even sometimes tolerate the snow...if it's there on christmas eve or christmas day, but otherwise.... i love how people seem to be nicer to each other and overlook flaws and shortcomings. i love the christmas movies ...
white chocolate bark with cranberries and pistachios
this white chocolate + cranberry (craisin) + pistachio bark is perfect for christmas, not only because the flavors are so great together, but because the colors are perfect! red, green, and white. what could be more christmas-y than that?! it just looks pretty. it gets first prize for being ...
dark chocolate candy cane bark
i never used to like dark chocolate. my dad always has and he would sometimes give me some of his to try but most of the time i knew i wouldn't like it and was all "no thank you!" they say your taste buds change as you get older and that must really be true because i actually looove dark ...
milk and white chocolate candy cane bark
if there is one flavor that i will go to forever and always it is chocolate + mint. i love it in everything from junior mints or peppermint patties to ice cream to mint hot chocolate and beyond. it truly is my weakness and i could eat in any form, though chocolate bark is probably one of my ...
nutella and chocolate hazelnut bark
i really have a weakness for one thing...nutella. i think it all started with the ferrero rochers my parents used to get around the holidays when i was little. i looooved those things. i would savor them and eat them layer by layer (does anyone else do this?!). and my favorite part of the whole ...
how to make homemade chocolate turtles
ok, this one is my absolute favorite out of all the caramel recipes i've posted. did i say that about any of the others? the chocolate caramel pretzel rods? or maybe the chocolate covered caramels? well, i really mean it this time. when you bite into these little nuggets of deliciousness you get a ...
easy homemade chocolate covered caramels
here is part 2 of what i am unofficially calling the homemade caramel series. last year we posted this amazingly simple and delicious homemade caramel recipe, and this week we're going to show you just what you can make with it. it is fabulous for just eating on its own, of course, but you can ...
homemade chocolate caramel pretzel rods
ah, i love this time of year! we've gone from the warm, savory food of thanksgiving and are now transitioning to my absolute favorite: the sweet treats of christmas! good thing it's going to be cold and snowy outside because i may need to wear baggy sweaters until the healthy eating starts up again ...
free printable christmas gift tags and labels
did you know that you can do a google search for "how many days until christmas" and google will tell you the exact number? here i was sitting at my desk, looking at the monthly calendars that i'd printed out for the rest of the year, and i was taking the time to count the number of weeks, ...