Elves, Elves, Everywhere Elves

I have a new addiction! I think everyone has heard of the elfyourself.com from Office Max, and they offer a scroogeyourself.com also which is pretty funny, but I found the ultimate site if your into this kinda thing. The site is called jibjab and its hilarious! If you register you get “50 free credits” which [...]


The Fifth Blog Of Christmas Is About Ordering Gifts

Remember the days of getting in your cold car early in the morning on a weekend before Christmas to go hit the malls and ten other stores searching for the gifts you needed to get for your friends and family? And remember how after a very long day of walking from shop to shop and [...]


The Fourth Blog of Christmas Is All About The Songs

One of my favorite parts of the holiday season is the music, I absolutely saturate myself with Christmas music. I play it in the car where I have three stations on my Sirius satellite radio and two locals preset, I listen at home on my satellite TV, its on constantly after Thanksgiving if not a [...]


The Third Blog Of Christmas is About Financing

Not one of my favorite subjects but this time it’s all good. I have been receiving constant harassment from my son this holiday season because I took out a loan for Christmas. Yep thats right, I loaned a thousand dollars from my bank for gifts. Okay so as I have said before I am a [...]


The Second Blog Of Christmas Is About LED’s

As I mentioned in my last blog I am trying out some of those new LED Christmas lights. I really wanted blue, theres a shop down the road that has blue all over outside and it’s gorgeous. Really a deep pretty blue, but the only place that I could find them around here was out [...]


The First Blog of Christmas Is All About My Tree

This year is a real turning point for me, for the first time in at least seven years I purchased my own fake Christmas tree. To say I have been hesitant is putting it mildly, I have been fighting everyone in my family tooth and nail on this for years. Yes they come up with [...]


The Twelve Blogs of Christmas

I’ve decided to start my own little trend here. I’m going to do the twelve blogs of Christmas, each day will have something to do with Christmas with the last day being Christmas Eve and my last Christmas themed blog.


Twas The Night B’fore Christmas

Something new and strange entered my home lately, and it came from my daughters elementary school library. Its a version of Twas The Night Before Christmas I never knew existed. An African American Version is what it say’s and as I opened it and began to read it to my daughter I was blown away. [...]


Deck The Halls With Busy Busy, Busy Busy Busy

You get the point, I have had so much to do with work and my Girl scout Troop and Christmas and wow Black Friday was over a week ago already! Where is the time going? I know its being swallowed up by the never ending vast black hole of a constant full plate that is [...]