Category Archives: holidays

Merry Christmas!

I hope you had a wonderful day today. We had a very relaxing day spending time together cooking and playing Wii games. I opened a present that I'd received by snail mail from one of my good blogging buddies, thank you my friend, you know who you are. I did some blog maintenance today. When my blog was moved over from Blogger the tags converted automatically to categories. I changed them to tags, and a few days ago I realized… Read the rest

Our Plans for Christmas Day

We are planning to have a nice relaxing day at home.  We might have a bonfire in the evening, after dinner. It looks like we will not be having a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, but I'm not exactly sure of the menu. I'm sure it will be delicious. We have agreed as a family to not exchange gifts, or buy gifts for one another.  Mr. A's mother is sending us some money, so we will all be able to get ourselves… Read the rest

Great Christmas Gift Idea – Barack Obama Collectible Plate

I subscribe to the Buy.com Deals list and today one of the deals that came through was for a Barack Obama Historic Victory Collectable Plate / Stand & Certificate of Authenticity for only $6.49 with free shipping (regular price $29.99).  I don't make anything by sharing these links with you, I just thought it was a super deal and would be an inexpensive gift recommendation. I have a coworker that will be very thrilled with this plate and I also… Read the rest

My Grandma’s Crocheted Easy Square Slippers

I decided for Christmas presents I'm going to make our food manager and her little girl matching slippers.  I decided to use my Grandma's pattern. It's very, very simple. You only need to know how to chain, single crochet, and all you need is a tracing of the foot for which the slipper is being made. This post can be downloaded as a PDF by clicking here. Once you know the pattern, you won't ever need to follow it again.… Read the rest