Our Family Christmas
We spent the weekend before Christmas out in the countryside south of Chicago with my husband’s family. A few days of cookie baking, laughter and family. We attended their church on Sunday morning and Mikey was allowed to be a…
Paper Snowflakes Tutorial
Every Winter I love to sit down with some paper and sharp scissors to make paper snowflakes. Usually in front of the TV in the evening or while listening to some music. I’m not the most crafty of people, but…
Zoo Lights
Last Friday evening we took Mikey to see the Zoo Lights at Lincoln Park Zoo and to meet Santa. I walked a little faster that afternoon to pick him up from Preschool, he ran to me from inside the classroom…
Olivia’s Rolled Sugar Cookies
I’m no baker, but I can still appreciate the baking of others! One my my favourite things to do around Christmas is to bake and decorate Sugar Cookies with Mikey. He, of course, loves to cut out the cookies and…
Christmas Tree
Last night was a long one. Mikey went to bed later than usual because we were so busy playing that we lost track of time, then as I was getting him to sleep he heard his daddy come home from…
Lights
I was going to wait until Friday to post these photographs. Fully intending on hitting the publish button on my way out the door, as we left for a small family get-together with my husband’s family. And I hadn’t known…
Pinecones & Glitter
Over the weekend we decorated pinecones, painting the edges white and coating them with glitter. Mikey had fun with all of the glitter of course, and I don’t think I’ve entirely managed to get all of it out of the…
Let it Snow
I woke up on Saturday morning to see beautiful fat flakes of snow through the window, falling lazily to an already white-covered ground below. Mikey and my husband were both still snuggled up and cozy in bed. I pulled my…
Christmas Tree
The fetching of our lovely Christmas Tree. This is the biggest tree we’ve had the entire time we’ve been married, and we still had to ask the nice man to cut it down for us so that it would fit…
Winter Berries
I can’t help it, there’s something so irresistible about red winter berries. I love them. I took these photos while taking quick breaks from the cookie baking festivities last weekend. I think that this week is going to be a…
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