Married mother of 4 boys, avid reader of the Wall Street Journal, great at research -- such as finding the best way to making a $5 bottle of olive oil taste like a $100 bottle. I do yoga every day, and a lot of the things I say people think are funny -- and I didn't mean it to be funny.
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Yes… it is days before Christmas, and there is another party is scheduled at my house in just a few days, and no, we cannot squeeze yet another event into our busy days. My husband was good enough to mail the stack of Christmas cards for his family – mine was not. Yet, despite all the [...]
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This Monopoly Altoids Christmas gift is over the top — and there were several moments when I questioned the purpose of the whole entire project at this point. But to by honest, there really is nothing for me to gripe about. The son who came up with this one, I thought, was too young [...]
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We will not say a word about the “backwards R,” now will we? This gift is a “copy” of an entire set of Altoids Tin complete office supply set, that also included a couple of tin cans wrapped in cork. My little guy used cork to cover the top of an Altoids tin (cut by [...]
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Pipe cleaners, buttons, wine corks and felt are stuffed inside this Altoids tin…. to make this little Altoids elf. Source: flickr.com via SusieJ on Pinterest The Great Altoids Tin Challenge: Here are 1 and 2
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He made his own “origami” envelope for his Wish List, with special instructions for Santa.
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Each year, I save those little epiphany phrases that tumble out of my kid’s mouths (Mom, why is my hair blonde? It’s from the sun. Now, it’s like this even in the shade.) and save them for our Christmas Card. Our family Christmas card is all about the quotes; the photos take a backseat to [...]
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I’ve been banned from the kitchen. I hear the sounds of crinkling paper, tape being pulled…. the elves must be soooo busy.
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On a whim, we have created a new “think inside the box” way to exchange gifts this year, and it turns out that we like this so much that it will probably end up being a family tradition that will last long after the boys have cleaved to their new wives and set up families [...]
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