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Easy Valentine’s Day Dinner Ideas
Love is in the air ya’ll! And Valentine’s Day is around the corner bringing along with it all the expectations for romance and fancy dinners. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have time to cook a complicated three course meal, but I do still love to make my husband feel special. That is why I put together these Easy Valentine’s Day Dinner Ideas. So you can spend more time on the romance and less time in the kitchen. Ahhh do you remember Valentine’s Day when you were still young and in love? He would buy you flowers and jewelry and take you to a nice dinner at a…
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How to Make a Traditional New Year’s Day Dinner
Can you believe how quickly we are approaching the New Year!? With the coming of a new year peaking around the corner, I begin to plan out our traditional New Year’s Day dinner. This dinner helps usher in the new year with a bit of luck and good fortune while sending the old year out with style and grace. This year has been quieter than 2020 ever was, but still full of change. We have continued to navigate our way through home construction. Thankfully, we are getting closer and closer to beginning our new life in a new home. I have also learned about homesteading and blogging in a way…
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How to Make Melt In Your Mouth Christmas Sugar Cookies
Sugar cookies are a Christmas tradition at our home. We love to make and decorate these delicious melt in your mouth Christmas Sugar Cookies for Santa every year on Christmas Eve. These buttery delicious bites are sure to please your family and the big guy in red. I can remember being a little girl, sitting on the counter of my momma’s kitchen as she rolled out the silky buttery dough. She would always let me and my sister use the old metal Christmas Cookie Cutters to make stars, bells, snowmen, and boots. Then she would carefully move the dough to the cookie sheet and the real fun began. We always…
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The Best Easy Christmas Desserts
Christmas can be a busy time of year full of holiday parties and get togethers. Between holiday shopping, Christmas Parties, and everyday life, who has time to spend hours baking in the kitchen? That is why we put together this list of the best easy Christmas desserts! Christmas is my favorite time of year. There is so much joy and magic in the air. But it can also be a really busy time full of things to do and places to go. As much as I love to be in the kitchen baking, sometimes with all the other things, it isn’t feasible to spend the day in the kitchen baking.…
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10 Christmas Eve Traditions to Bring Magic to Your Home (2021)
Christmas Eve is almost as magical as Christmas Day itself. Kids, and adults like me, are full of excitement and anticipation as the big day gets closer and closer. Take a peek into our magical Christmas Eve Traditions, and find some to adopt with your family this year. Do you remember that feeling you had as a kid when you knew Santa was coming the next day? The raw anticipation and pure excitement that kept you from going to bed early and woke you up way before the sun was up? I am in my thirties now and still remember that feeling I had on the night before Christmas. …
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2021 Downloadable Fall Bucket List
Fall is here with its crisp mornings, warm days, and chilly nights. The leaves are starting to show up in grand colors here in Virginia, and the air smells like winter is just around the corner. While the temperatures are still lovely and we don’t have to hide inside for the winter, get outside and start knocking some items off of the traditional Fall Bucket List! It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (I’m talking Fall Ya’ll) Fall is hands down my favorite time of year. It is busy with harvesting the summers hard work for sure, but it is also a fun time of year with so many…
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Eleven At Home Summer Vacation Ideas with Kids
Summertime is a time for fun, sun, and vacations! But what do you do when money or time are tight? You get creative and create a fun in the sun summer that your kids will love! These eleven ideas for super cheap (mostly free!) close to home summer vacation ideas with kids will have your kiddos reminiscing about this summer for years to come. Since the boys were two years old, we have made the five hour drive from Virginia to the Outer Banks to enjoy a week of beach life. I love the Outer Banks. It was a destination vacation for us when we were kids and holds a very…
