When you decide that you want to start living more intentionally, and “gracefully”, things start to look and feel a bit different in your life. Material things and “me” things get pushed further and further down the list. Doing for others, having experiences and making memories bubble up to the top. During the Christmas season, most are generally more giving and charitable. Sometimes though, the hustle and bustle of the season push even our best intentions to the back burner. Don’t let that happen this season. If you want to make baking cookies with your kids a priority then...

To appease my mother this holiday we are trying to downplay all our Christmas décor. You are a scrooge Mama! Not really, she is just much more of a minimalist then I am. And since I’ve got my stinky old dog, snore-a-holic husband and two wild-thing children living here over Christmas, I thought the least I could do was respect her decorative wishes. I figured we could get away with MORE if we used natural elements. Like gingerbread, pinecones and dried oranges. We had a BLAST making the gingerbread ornaments and I totally thought the dried orange slices would...

Christmas is the ultimate time of giving.  Yet sometimes giving gets a little hard.  It seems like this day and time people either fall into two categories the “have-nothings” and “have-everythings”. The have-nothings The have-nothings are the children whose nameless profiles hang on the Angel Trees in the lobby at Church, at the exits of department stores and grocery stores. They are the boxes you fill up for deployed soldiers who are asking for toothpaste and disposable razors and other common items that we forget we are privileged to use each and every morning. They are the elderly in...

Christmas is my season! I adore Christmas décor. However, I am a bit particular about how I want things to look. While I want my whole house to look like Christmas threw up all over it, I also want it to look tasteful. I’m not really sure if those two things go together but in my mind they do. Basically, I want to have “themes” in certain areas of my house. Traditionally I like a red and green theme in the main living area, a blue and silver theme in our bedroom and fun kid colors and ornaments in...

                Christmas is my favorite.  I love the decor, I love the traditions, I love celebrating the birth of Christ.  I love the colors, I love the food, I love the movies and the books.  I love it all. I loved Christmas before I had kids, and now that I get to share it with these little people, my heart feels like it is exploding out of my chest the whole season.  To see the joy and experience the ultimate happiness of a child through the Christmas season is incredible. This post...

This post does contain affiliate links.  This means if you make a purchase through a link I provide I may be compensated.  This does not change the price for you and I only recommend products and services that I believe in and trust. Christmas Tradition Overwhelm I talk a lot about how social media can make us mothers feel like failures.  It paints unrealistic pictures of what we should be doing every day.  Christmas is coming up and we are about to get FLOODED with things to buy, events to do, new traditions to start, recipes to make….. Dont...