Spreading Christmas Cheer

Tweet All week the kids and I have been baking up a storm. Cookies, cupcakes and candy have been tempting us with their yummy goodness. Today we’ve delivered some of these sweet treats, but tomorrow morning will find us playing a bit of ding dong ditch on unsuspecting (and often grumpy) neighbors! Spreading Christmas cheer [...]

The Perfect Stocking(s) for Under $25!

Tweet Walmart is dedicated to helping families save money so we can bring home more for less this Christmas. To prove this, they sent me out with another challenge this week. My mission was to put together the perfect stocking with just $25. So, off I went with a gift card in hand to see [...]

Toy Haul For Our Adopted Family

Tweet Being a Walmart Mom has it’s perks, but I have to say that I am most excited by opportunities that help us give to those in need. This month, each of the Walmart Moms were given a $100 gift card to purchase some of this year’s top toys from Walmart for a charity of [...]

Walmart’s Top Toys :: Our Favorites

Tweet Are you looking for the perfect gift for some of those kiddos in your life? Well, I have some great ideas! Whether you need to find that one item for your nieces, nephews or your own little one still left on your shopping list, check out some of our favorites. Paper Jamz have been [...]

Decorating for the Holidays

Tweet Preparing to decorate for Christmas always brings me such mixed feelings. It is so much work to pull out the boxes of decorations we have collected over the years, but I do love going through them year after year. Sifting through each box of homemade ornaments, white lights and colored lights, little nativity scenes, [...]

Build-a-Box with Operation Christmas Child

Tweet Did you and your kiddos pack shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child? Well, Collection Week was last week and if you’re as distracted as I am these days, you probably missed the deadline, even though you knew it was coming. (Don’t judge!) There is good news for you and me! We can virtually pack boxes through [...]

Fill Those Shoeboxes! {BIG Giveaway}

Tweet I’d like to say that only the little ones struggle with the “gi’mees” and “I wants” at this time of the year, but it’s so easy to be distracted by material things, isn’t it? Don’t get me wrong. I love to bless others with little gifts, any time of the year. Seeing the joy [...]

Merry Christmas!

Tweet Many blessings to your family on this holy day!

“No, we don’t believe in Santa…”

Tweet Some people think we’re depriving our children of “the magic of Christmas.” Some people think we’re crazy for not encouraging our children to believe in miracles. But, what can be more “magical” than an immaculate conception and a Savior born for us? Sounds like a miracle to me! Okay, so my kids know about [...]