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Making Pizzelles

Making Pizzelles

One of our favorite Christmas season traditions is making pizzelles. My Grandma Connie, who died when I was 14, used to make these cookies & I have such fond memories of eating them with her. So, every December make pizzelles. We make them to eat 

Sending Christmas Cards

Sending Christmas Cards

We are busy working on Christmas Cards. 🙂 We have not always been the best at sending out regular Christmas cards &/or Family Letters. It is important to us, though & so we made a last minute decision this past week to go ahead & 

Child Training vs Dumbing Kids Down

Child Training vs Dumbing Kids Down

A few weeks ago, we were doing some shopping at Costco after a Doctor appointment & I saw a 2 or 3 year old little girl riding in the shopping cart. The little girl was mesmerized by something she was watching on Mom’s phone. It 

Weekly Gratitude Post 12/15/19

Weekly Gratitude Post 12/15/19

This week’s Gratitude Post is brought to you by Lizzy. I am thankful for yarn because you can do so many things with it. You can crochet, knit, make chocolate kiss holders & so many other things. I have been teaching myself to make chocolate 

Gratitude Post

Gratitude Post

Sundays are going to be our normal day for a Gratitude Post, but I just felt an overwhelming need to share an extra one this week. 🥰 I am so grateful for answers. To feel validated & understood is so HUGE. I really wonder how 

A Health Update – And ANSWERS!!!

A Health Update – And ANSWERS!!!

I had my follow up appt with the functional medicine Dr Tuesday. We spent a long time going over the test results that have come back (and thankfully we got through them all in one long appt instead of having to go back next week 

Our New Fridge & “Demo Mode”

Our New Fridge & “Demo Mode”

Did you know that if you buy a display model, you have to manually turn the “Demo Mode” off? And, this is actually not talked about in the manual? And that if you don’t, the compressor doesn’t actually kick on & cool the fridge? We 

Creative Christian Crochet Part 1

Creative Christian Crochet Part 1

Hi, this is Xanna. I recently got back into crocheting – I took a couple years off for moving and just cause I was soooooooo busy, but now I’m back and loving it more than ever! (Hey that’s cool you can do itializized!) These are