Courtesy SimpleMom.net This week marks 9 weeks until Christmas!!  Can you even believe it?  I am ready to put up my tree now!  Can I do that?  LOL  I truly feel like we have the one up on Christmas this year because most of our Christmas shopping is done (or ordered!), the pictures are taken, [...]

I am already starting to feel tightness in my chest as the holidays are creeping up WAY too quickly! I started Simple Mom’s series and did the first challenge, then got behind on the second, now its the third and I am playing catch up!  Sheesh! So last week was gethering your Christmas Card list [...]

Hosted by Simple Mom… check out her blog for the FULL story! This week’s project is GATHER YOUR ADDRESSES for your Christmas Cards.  NO!  It is NOT too early.  Doing these little things in ADVANCE saves you when you NEED to be doing things like baking etc. Some places to FIND your card addresses are: [...]

This week we are going to make our halloween pumpkins.  Some friends (uhh hmmm… Amber and Sean) are going to pick up our pumpkin carving tradition with us.  The first year they were in Kentucky we carved together and at the time I think we each only had ONE child ( I think… maybe I [...]

I found this series over at Simple Mom’s Blog and since I wasn’t reading her blog last year its all brand new (and VERY fascinating!) to me!  Maybe its new to you too!  Since the cooler weather has finally hit Kentucky and the leaves are starting to change I am ALREADY feeling the pressure of [...]

I truly TRULY enjoy the 4th of July.  The cookouts, the family time, the FIREWORKS!  Independence Day has always been my dad’s FAVORITE holiday!  I think he would rather have fireworks than Christmas honestly!  This year it RAINED … like a LOT of rain all day both days.  Ugh.  We managed to make the most [...]