Have you gotten all the supplies you need for your New Year’s meal yet? If not, you better grab them quick before they are sold out!
Here are a few of our favorite recipes for our traditional New Year’s Meal:
Brown Sugar & Honey Glazed Ham
What are your family’s favorite recipes for the New Year? Do you have any special traditions?
Here is another post we found about the luck associated with the traditional New Year’s Meal.
Our Polar Express Party was a huge hit thanks to all the help from our amazing family and friends! I’m so glad that we decided to give it a go even though we don’t really have our house set up the way we want it yet… its better to work with what you have right now and not keep putting things off until everything is ‘ready’ or ‘just right’ because that day may never come!
The kids had a fun time and are already making plans for next year! I’ll share some photos of the setup.
Do you ever feel like you are running a day late and a dollar short? I know this past year or two have been like that for me. Our lives were completely turned upside down for a bit and it has taken me quite a while to figure out which way was up. I have found a lot of comfort in going back to some of our old routines and they are helping us to get better organized.
It’s almost a new year so I am trying my best to get our home running even smoother which will help alleviate a lot of the stress that we have around here.
One of my best organizational tools over the past several years has been our Cozi Calendar. I also like to keep a large calendar handy for everyone to access so there is less confusion about what is happening and who needs to be where and when they need to be there. I haven’t tried out some of the newer scheduling systems because the one I currently use seems to work pretty well for us and I don’t really want to try to implement a lot of new changes while we are still trying to find our way back to ‘NORMAL‘.
We do pretty well about keeping our doctor appointments and such straight but sometimes it’s the other things that get overlooked… I actually almost forgot one of the kid’s birthdays last month! Thankfully I had already bought the supplies I needed so I was able to pull it all together fairly quickly.
Continue reading “Getting your calendar organized!”
Are you tired of wasting your money on gifts that just aren’t appreciated? Or maybe you’ve noticed that your dollar just doesn’t stretch as far as it used to?
Well, here are a few gifts that are sure to be well-loved and appreciated!
These are always a hit around our home and everyone who gets any as gifts always ask for more!
Fudge — Always a Winner!
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