Wordless Wednesday is live on thehealthymoms.net and talbertzoo.com. Link up to your Wordless Wednesday post. After a whirlwind weekend of all seven of us getting sick I finally had the chance to make my Christmas cut outs and let the kids decorate them on Monday. I used Pillsbury sugar cookie dough found in refrigerator rolls. The directions stated that you have to cut them out into 1/2 inch height. I followed the directions, and used Christmas cookie cutters but ended up with giant blobs instead of beautiful Christmas shapes. Now…
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Happy the Elf
I love celebrating Christmas. We have many Christmas traditions including driving around to look at the lights, listening to Christmas music, saying special prayers after lighting our advent wreath and displaying our nativity scene. This year we started a new tradition. On the morning of December 1 the kids woke up and found a visitor from the North Pole. Meet Happy the Elf. Happy is a friendly scout elf sent by Santa to watch the Talbert kids and report back how they have been behaving. Each night he leaves our…
Read MoreCount Your Blessings This Christmas
As I write this I know that there is a mother sitting at her child’s hospital bedside. I know most of you have read the story in Our Ordinary Life blog. If you haven’t I will sum it up for you. A young mother and fellow blogger was out Christmas shopping with her baby boy on Friday. When she was walking down the sidewalk with her young son in his umbrella stroller a semi truck turned the corner and ran over the stroller. The baby was thrown out of the…
Read MoreWeekend Reflection
Well here it is Saturday again. We had a very crazy but rewarding week. Santa came and went and the kids were good for the most part. The Terror got her baby with a Nuk and stroller. The big girl got a game for her Nintendo and the baby got some diapers. We went to our usual parties…you know the big one at the aunt and uncles house on Christmas Eve. All the kids were running around downstairs while the adults sipped rum and cider and mixed drinks upstairs. The…
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Christmas is almost hear and the kids are getting excited about Santa. The terror wants a baby with a nuk. The baby just wants Mommy. And the big girl wants some new games for her Nintendo. Dad wants a new job and Mommy just wants some more sleep.If everyone has been good Santa will provide. This Christmas has been full of surprises for my family. We have all had our share of colds and lack of sleep. At age 10 my oldest still believes in the magic of Christmas. But…
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