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Back to the Salt Mines

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Many of you probably returned to working in the salt mines yesterday after a holiday break. I have been working in the salt mines for several weeks now without a break in sight.My husband says I’m heading back to the salt mines almost every morning. I’m not sure if that is why JDaniel loved to pretend to work in the salt mines so much or it could Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- New Year’s Eve Meal

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Happy New Year! I hope that you and yours had wonderful New Year’s Eve and will have fantastic New Year. We had a Chinese carryout meal for > at my house. It was just the three of us so; I decided a fun meal that required no more than mom ordering food and taking it out of little takeout boxes would be wonderful. My guys both agreed a restaurant Continue Reading

Read.Explore.Learn.- Christmas All Year Long

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Welcome to Read. Explore. Learn! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing the ways you have learned with and explored books. Steps: Link your activity below. Continue Reading

Celebrating New Year’s Eve- Toddler Style

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  What is the toddler style? It means we will be celebrating at 12 noon on New Year’s Eve with JDaniel. What do you need for a toddler style celebration? Ingredients: Food   A meal that matches a place in the world that is actually celebrating New Year’s a twelve midnight. We are actually going to cheat and have Continue Reading

Wordless Wednesday- The Christmas Light House

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We visited this amazing house surrounded by lights and inflatibles right before Christmas. It is truly amazing. JDaniel's favorite part was the bag of popcorn they gave him as he entered the display area. He enjoyed the lights, but loved the popcorn.  Continue Reading

Grocery Store Made Santa Decision for JDaniel

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We had talked (JDaniel and me) about how Santa was based on a wonderful man that live long ago named St. Nick. I had mentioned that presents come on Christmas Day in remembrance of this wonderful man. We had also read books that had Santa in them. I tried not to make a big deal about him.All seemed to be going well until we need to stop at our Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Christmas Breakfast

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>I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! This is probably the first Christmas JDaniel will remember and was totally aware of. It was so much fun.The night before Christmas we did some prep work for the arrival of Jesus’ birthday and Santa’s arrival. Baby Jesus arrived in the crèche after having his manger bed empty for most of the month of December. Continue Reading

Snow for Christmas!

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> Yesterday was a Christmas Day for the record books. The newspaper this morning stated that Greenville, South Carolina hadn't had snow on Christmas for forty-seven years. My husband had never had a white Christmas in his life until it started to snow yesterday afternoon. Watching the snowfall outside our windows as we sat down for our Continue Reading

Musicians Making Merry Music

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There is just something wonderful about Christmas music. If songs are familiar, the words just dance about in your head like sugar plums. You may start to hum the words or eventually, they may just slip across the tongue and through your lips. Last Saturday I drove JDaniel and my mom to Atlanta to attend my nephew Jason’s orchestra concert. He Continue Reading

Christmas Time Game of Tag

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I have been tagged by Noelle from Jumpin Bean. She is a great blogging buddy and friend. I have answered the questions below and have tagged a few bloggers at the end of this post who will hopefully continue the game.When do you usually know and feel that it's finally the holidays? We wait a long time to put up our Christmas decorations. When Continue Reading

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