In the last year or so, we as a family have made a conscious effort to involve the kids in gift purchasing. The girls get to choose what they each want to give Craig or me, plus each other, for Christmas and birthdays. Friday was my birthday, so the biggest Jostes family shopping event in…
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American Girl What?
I totally admit that I had a heck of a time coming up with gift ideas this Christmas. My mom – thank goodness – told me she wanted to buy both Kate and Maddie their own My American Girl Doll this year. I thought it was a great idea, and was even more relieved pleased…
My kids are 5 & 3, and I’m out of gift ideas
I feel like I’ve nearly reached a point of desperation as far as gift ideas go. Christmas is coming, and I’ve only come up with a few reasonable, logical present possibilities. As the mom, everyone asks me what the girls want for Christmas. I admit that I’ve been coming up completely short with this task….
The Gift: Hooters-Style
This is a husband story like no other. Courtesy of Jessica of Four Plus An Angel. Her guest post is truly divine, will make you laugh, and will make you want to ring her husband’s neck. Without further adieu… – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –…
Gifts From My Honey
I’m not sure if my confession-of-sorts will be something you can relate to, or something that will make you say, “My goodness, you guys are seriously pathetic!” Oh well; here it goes… *Since having kids, we really haven’t gotten each other Christmas gifts.* {Gasp!} How bad are we? We’ve had years where we’ve said, “We…
I Was Happy to Help
To read about the best gift I ever gave, please click here… Related Posts:Pink, because no one wants black.American Girl What?My kids are 5 & 3, and I’m out of gift ideasThe Gift: Hooters-StyleGifts From My Honey
Why I’m Stupid-Excited
We have had our United Mileage Plus credit card for probably 10 years. We first opened it when we were wedding planning, figuring we should *get* something for our outgo of cash. Because we lived in Chicago and loved to travel, we figured a United Airlines mileage program made the most sense. Which it did…
Handmade Love
A couple of my blog friends have some amazing talent that I’ve been able to enjoy, and I wanted to share a little about each of them today. The first is Julie from DUTCH Being ME. Julie sells these sets of handmade, stamped cards from her Julie Mae Designs site! The set I received contained…
True One-of-a-Kinds
My cousin, Craig, spent about 7 months living in Zambia on a work assignment. He returned with these amazing gifts for Craig, the girls, and me, all handcrafted by women from the Malambo Women’s co-operative. A symbol of “family” Bottle opener Stuffed animals Children’s book {This post is part of Wordless Wednesdays} Wordless Wednesdays Live…
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My 2nd Look Saturday post is really more like 50% a 2nd look and 50% a brand new update. Back in late 2008 and before I was blogging publicly, I wrote a post on how I did a crappy job at hiding some of Kate’s Christmas presents. *********************************************** I did some Christmas shopping a few…
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