My friend, Ashleigh, passed away Sept. 28, 2009. She was only 28 and left behind a husband and four young children (Sarah-5, Lucas and Alex-3, and Audrey-2). She had only been diagnosed with colon cancer for a month, but it was an aggressive and wide-spread cancer. She chose to fight back aggressively with chemo treatments, […]
Big Hearted Holidays–The Blaser Family
November 18, 2009 by Leave a Comment
I had only recently gotten to know the Blaser family, when Clint passed away. Jackie is one of the moms on the MomTimeTV show, and the Blasers had generously offered their home for the filming of several episodes. Spending time in their home that day, I felt like I knew them. They seemed to have […]
Big Hearted Holidays–IMPORTANT
November 17, 2009 by 6 Comments
This fall, my heart was broken, not once, but twice in the same week as two of my friends were taken from their families. My heart broke as my friend, Ashleigh, a mother of 4 very young children lost a short battle with colon cancer. Later that week, I received word that Clint, the husband […]
Edible Placecard Holders for a Fun Thanksgiving
November 12, 2009 by 11 Comments
This idea has made it’s appearance in many Thanksgiving meals I’ve been involved in over the years. If you look closely, you can see my mini cornucopias in this post, and in this post. The cornucopias are made by “glueing” Runts candies into Bugles snacks, using Marshmallow creme as your glue. The trick is using […]
Gratitude Tree 2009
November 11, 2009 by 9 Comments
We’ve been a little slow getting our Gratitude Tree going this year. But it is never too late to remember to be grateful, right? So this is what we have this year. It is a little different than last year, as many of you will recall… I loved how our tree turned out last year, […]
Christmas Crafting–Gifts you can make
November 9, 2009 by 8 Comments
I did this last year, posted about Christmas, right after posting about Halloween. I haven’t forgotten about Thanksgiving, I promise! But we’ll blame this slight on Chris at Just a Girl. She is having her 2nd annual “I Can Make That Party” today. I participated last year, and got tons of great ideas for Christmas […]
Halloween 2009—the big reveal…
November 4, 2009 by 10 Comments
TOY STORY: Yes! You were all right about our Toy Story theme! Which either means that you read and pay attention to my blog, or else you are just really smart (both?). These photos were taken by Peter Thatcher at our church Halloween party. I’m so glad he does this! I can’t ever get the […]
The Loveseat–from plaid to rad!
November 3, 2009 by 30 Comments
I realize I owe you all a Halloween round-up with costume pics and all, but there are a couple of great blog parties going on right now, that I didn’t want to miss, so I am going to reveal the big loveseat reupholstery job my mom (I helped a bit) did when she was in […]
Halloween Food Fun & a Guessing Game
October 29, 2009 by 5 Comments
My husband is a good sport… I try to stay out of the kitchen as much as possible these days (yes, I’m still pretty pukey, but hopefully will feel better, soon!). So at my request, he made these cute “mummy dogs” for dinner last night. I have seen this kind of thing featured around the […]
Halloween Inspiration
October 27, 2009 by 3 Comments
Busy day! Story time and a costume parade for my baby at the library this morning. My Halloween episode of Mom Time TV airs in just a few minutes (you can catch the uncut version at momtimetv.com, later, if you miss it). And tonight I am teaching a class on Thanksgiving Tips and Tricks for […]
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