how did I miss it

Maybe I didn’t watch enough network television during the holiday season, but somehow, I managed to miss my all-time favorite holiday comercial…the Hershey Kiss handbells!
Enjoy!

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my child rocks!

Look what she left for Santa on Christmas Eve:

She even made the popcorn herself and chose which beer Santa would like.

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merry christmas 2008

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charity: day 23: charitable organizations

I’m kind of in a hurry this morning, and may have reached the end of the groups to which I normally donate.  I’ll do a double check of that later.
For now:
Have I not covered your favorite charitable organization?  Check out this link for 200 of the most popular American charities!

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it’s monday, it’s december…you know what that means

Cookie baking madness 2008 is finally winding down to a close.  We made the dough last weekend, but I ended up not taking my usual work-from-home-day this week, and the sugar cookie making/decorating was to be Freya’s art project that day.  So, after she arrived home (and watched Polar Express for the thousandth time) from her weekend [...]

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i need an occassion

To make and decorate a gingerbread house.  I’ve never made one…from a box kit or from scratch….never.  I’m a little surprised I haven’t.  I want to, I just don’t see the need for having a big $10 cookie lying around, open to the air, and basically inedible, especially since we are not hosting anything this [...]

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wanna take a survey?

Freya’s daycare class likes to do little surveys in class, typically centered around a theme or holiday.  They post everyone’s answer to the question on a large sheet of paper in the hallway outside the classroom.  They also typically make their own personal version of the survey question.
I can usually tell what has recently happened [...]

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charity: day 11: support pink

I recently found myself in need of a new sports water bottle for my daily gym workouts.  Each of the ones I purchased between 1999 and 2003 are plastic and managed to become my own personal, nasty little science experiment at the bottom, where I simply could not clean because it was impossible to reach [...]

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charity: day 10: boxtops 4 education

The General Mills Company has a campaign that includes clipping a portion of the boxtop from all of their products called Boxtops 4 Education.  The boxtops campaign is very easy to understand: each boxtop clipping is worth 10 cents to your eligible educational facility and occassionally, they run double programs where each is worth 20 [...]

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a sweet gift

Once upon a time in a land far, far away called Michigan, I taught Sunday School to a little six year old.  She was sweet as can be and I made sure to have a craft project to go with each and every lesson.  For Christmas, she made me a very useful gift that I [...]

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charity: day 9: dollar more

Our local electric company has a program called the Dollar More campaign, organized in 1982.  Each month you pay your bill, plus $1 extra, which is used throughout the year to help those in need with their heating bills.  They also provide cooling stations in the summer when the heat soars into the extreme danger [...]

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blast from the past part deux: aka cookie day

Sunday was cookie-making day at my house.  I thought it would be a nice touch for Dave and I to take holiday cookies to the office and I figured that Freya would enjoy making food art, which of course, she did.  She is a great sifter of confectioners sugar and flour, which is a job that [...]

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