Tag: family
group name: holidaytips
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November 28, 2008 02:31 AM EST --
This is such a fun activity to make for Family Night. A great way to have fun. Making a simple board game is one of the easiest and fun things you can do on a rainy afternoon or for a family night activity. . . .
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December 16, 2008 07:48 AM EST --
Woodworking is like any other talent, it has degrees of talent used and required for projects. If you enjoy woodworking that is half the battle in itself. My husband has a wonderful talent for it but . . .
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November 18, 2008 11:59 AM EST --
Thanksgiving 2008 is just around the corner and holidays, as we all know, can be stressful. With each year I learn something new about creating a great Thanksgiving for my family and so I thought I would . . .
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November 15, 2008 04:27 PM EST --
Now is a time of year that many people dread as the pressure is on to buy those gifts for everyone. I thought this might be a good post to help all of us to put up ideas . . .
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December 01, 2008 09:48 AM EST --
Nature provides some of the most beautiful designs in the world. Just think of the perfect the design of a nautilus shell, or a milkweed pod, or a Ginkgo Biloba leaf.
You can easily make fold-over . . .
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November 13, 2008 04:05 PM EST --
Here is a link to a craft I did last year and posted here. I thought it might be fun to share it again. It has instructions and pictures.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977177192&memberId=&nav=MyGather . . .
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November 28, 2008 01:54 PM EST --
Things are bleak all around. It seems like every other day there’s news, either in the news or from someone I know, about more layoffs. The housing market, the stock market–it’s all going down, down, . . .
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November 20, 2008 10:07 PM EST --
Earlier, I posted a comment about giving the gift of time. This year, many people have lost their jobs. Many have had to take cut backs in income. Even those who haven't are feeling a pinch with . . .
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December 12, 2008 10:17 AM EST --
I have tons and tons of pinecones from my mothers farm and was trying to decide what to do with them. After going thru my craft supplies it came to me, I could make mini Christmas trees!! . . .
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November 25, 2008 04:14 AM EST --
Our family has a big gathering each year a few days before Christmas. When I was right out of high school is when we started doing this. It was always at my mother's until the mid 80's . . .
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November 21, 2008 12:13 PM EST --
How I love this time of year…
cinnamon apple potpourri
roasted turkey, cranberries,
squash, apple pie a la mode;
Wind kicks up,
lifts leaves on the ground,
cold sun blows apples to your . . .
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November 23, 2008 04:32 AM EST --
A childless, single woman writes:
Why do people only write stuff about their kids? I actually don't give a rip how their kids are doing. Are their lives THAT humdrum? "Hi, Happy . . .
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November 15, 2008 12:17 AM EST --
Have you ever seen beautifully cut and decorated sugar Christmas cookies, then found that they taste like cardboard? You can avoid this in your own cookie dough by doing two things:
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November 30, 2008 09:57 PM EST --
This year, my parents, sister and her boyfriend and our daughter, Sarah, joined us for a long Thanksgiving weekend. I cooked and baked for several days ahead of time. It was wonderful . . .
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November 23, 2008 09:38 PM EST --
Laughter really is the best medicine. When we laugh, we inhale deeply, and our hearts and breathing rates increase. As these levels return to normal, blood pressure falls, muscles relax, . . .
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December 08, 2008 04:16 PM EST --
Every year we get our tree from the local Farmer's Market. This year I took my new camera along.
They have a new pointsettia called
Pink Ice - with white striations in the pink . . .
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December 19, 2008 01:57 AM EST --
For as long as I can remember we have always opened gifts on Christmas Eve. When I was a child, we would go to Christmas Eve Mass and Santa would always magically come to our home while we were at church. . . .
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November 13, 2008 12:22 AM EST --
When I was young, my mother always used place cards for holiday dinners. Her place cards were small mirrors with a gritty, re-writable strip on which we wrote the names. They added a colorful touch to . . .
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November 14, 2008 06:54 PM EST --
These make a delicious holiday treat and are great for gifts, alone or in gift baskets. They're wonderful stocking stuffers, too!
INGREDIENTS:
3 bags large pretzels - . . .
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December 22, 2008 05:51 AM EST --
No Father for Christmas Eve. part 1.
No Father for Christmas Eve, a coming of age story. Part 2.
A small town in the Colorado Rockies
December 1944.
A . . .
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