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, ...
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chocolate peanut butter pretzel bark
if there is one thing i love it is the combination of salty + sweet. i'm thinking of this white chocolate m&m popcorn with its sweet chocolate coating alongside salty peanuts and pretzels...i actually just made some the other day because i had a hankering for some of the chocolate-covered ...
homemade chocolate turtles
one of my very favorite treats to make whether it's christmastime (i love to give these out as neighbor gifts) or any other time during the year, are these super simple yet incredibly delicious pretzel turtle bites. my parents used to buy boxes and boxes of turtles every year during the holidays and ...
cream cheese cookies with cream cheese frosting and candy cane
if there is anything that screams christmas to me it is candy canes. the look of them, the smell, the flavor.... we even hang them on our christmas tree because to me they just mean christmas is here. so i paired them up with my favorite cream cheese cookies + cream cheese icing to make these ...
homemade jingle bell wreath
one of the things i love most about the christmas season is the sounds :: the music, the movies, the excited voices of little kids, the ripping of christmas wrapping paper, and the bells. oh, the bells. you hear them in the background of almost every christmas song and there are even songs written ...
easy homemade caramel recipe
homemade caramel. there is nothing better to eat or to make during the holidays, especially since you can use this recipe in several ways: regular soft and chewy caramels like we're going to make today, chocolate-covered caramel squares, caramel chocolate-dipped pretzel rods, and homemade turtles. ...
homemade christmas tree star ornaments
every year we put a little 4' christmas tree in my kids' room so they can decorate it with all the christmas decorations they make at home or at school. it's "their" tree under which our elf likes to leave little gifts (check out these free printable christmas gift tags for those little gifts!) ...
free printable calendar :: december 2015
this december calendar almost got away from me! i can't believe it's already december and christmas is in full swing...thanksgiving just ended and i'm ready for a break! i was looking forward to taking a bit of time today away from planning and cleaning and shopping after all of the festivities of ...
how i organized my entire christmas :: holiday planner
most of the time when december rolls around, i often hear the "here we go again" phrase accompanied by a long sigh. the holiday season can be stressful - there are so many events such as kids' christmas concerts, work parties, get-togethers with family and friends, not to mention all the other ...
make it yourself :: christmas stockings
even though my husband and i have been married for several years, we never had our own stockings until last year. the reason being that we lived close to family and so was always at someone else's house for christmas day - and both my mother and mother-in-law had plenty of stockings to spare. so ...