Did you know that Christmas is less than five months away?  Whenever I think about that, I get really stressed out.  This is the first time ...

I can not believe there are only four days until Christmas day.  This is the first year, in many, many years that we have not had to borrow ...

Did you follow that?  Since Brandi is my only kid who still wants to give her teacher a gift, I decided to make it special.  As some of you ...

Christmas wouldn't be complete without the kids yearly ornaments.  This year, Ryan ended up with a cute little tree, complete with snowf...

Cute, right?

This year, I put the girls in charge of making their own cookies. I bought some bagged sugar cookie mix, handed it to them with a big bowl ...

The day after Christmas, I took down the tree and packed up all my Christmas decorations. I will admit that I was glad to have the space ba...

Can you tell I was in charge of dessert on Christmas? lol! Here are the cupcakes that I made. I was piping the frosting on them about 12:3...

I finally found a use for my new gingerbread pan...I made brownies in it! They came out great, and as I was about to mix up the frosting to ...

I made a batch of my flourless peanut butter cookies with chocolate, and added some holiday sprinkles to make them a little more festive. I...

I love chocolate chips cookies. I love them warm, right out of the oven when they are all gooey and delicious. These are not necessarily a...

Junior bought me the cutest cookie pan. It has gingerbread houses and gingerbread men shapes where you can put cookie dough. I am thinking...

I am throwing away the ornament I made. I wish there was a way to save them, but I am coming up blank. I wish there was a way to remove th...

Remember the post I did last week about these ornaments I made for my nieces and nephews? Well, I am a little ticked off right now, because ...

It's taking forever, but the kids are still doing it. We'll see how long this lasts...

It took me days to get all the ornaments onto my Christmas tree this year. I just couldn't get into the holiday spirit. But, we got it...

These are the gifts for my nieces and nephews. I took regular glass craft ornaments, and painted the insides. Then I wrote each kids name ...

Here's a look at some of the decorations Brandi put up over the weekend. I helped with hanging the garland, but she put all the figures...

This one is just a simple blue and silver snowflake. I wish I had bought more of these, because I love the way it came out. Maybe I'll ...

Have you guys started panicking about Christmas shopping yet? I know I have. The thought of spending money I don't have is enough to r...