The crowing jewel to our Christmas Eve dinner – brownie bite strawberry santa hats! These things taste as sweet as they look, you’ll find it hard not to pop one, two, three… We couldn’t believe how easy these treats were to make – and a big shortcut was to pick up a container of round … Read more
2013 has been a year that I really put so many ideas that I have had or seen into action. This one is no exception. I have probably seen half a million pins for this appetizer idea, in all different forms and sizes. Here is my version: I used three bars of chunk cheese (pepperjack, … Read more
On Christmas Eve this year we served a spread of food, desserts and drinks. We usually leave the Keurig on with a bowl of KCups and if we remember, we’ll stick some hot chocolate packets on the counter as well. This year, I decided that we just HAD to set up a HOT COCOA BAR. … Read more
How on Earth are we already at the end of another holiday season? The month of December absolutely flew by this year, despite my desperate attempts to slow it down. Our Elf on the Shelf journey ended, as it always does, on Christmas Eve. That morning, Lily located Oboe sitting in her brother’s crib. As … Read more
I had high hopes of posting this one yesterday for Throwback Thursday. But as is all too often the case, the day got way ahead of me and the post never happened. Until now. So here is my Throwback Thursday post, on Friday. The year was 1984. Big hair, larger-than-life video cameras and He-Man were … Read more