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Christmas Card 2017

Today is reason #99759 that I’m thankful my sister is a photographer because she took or gorgeous Christmas card pictures one Sunday after church.  

Rachel, you did a great job with the photos as usual.  Alabama people, check her out here!

I was intentional in the message on the back of our card.  I wanted to share the Gospel in a concise way, and hopefully, I did 🙂

It’s my mom’s 58th birthday today!!!  Mom, I hope you don’t mind me sharing your age because you look AMAZING and I hope when I’m 58 I look just like you!  I love you and Happy Birthday!



Now it’s your turn to share your Christmas card!  Link up with Victoria and I and our special cohost, Kristin.  Come back tomorrow for a Christmas Home Tour–my FAVORITE!!

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Friday Favorites!

Only a few more Fridays until Christmas!!!  Part of my really wants to rush next week to get to Christmas break but the other part of me wants to cherish every moment–even if it involves exam reviews with seventh graders ha!

Before I talk about my favorite things from this week, I wanted to mention yesterday’s blog post.  If you tried to comment or think you did, it didn’t work because I messed up something  with coding??  I know nothing about computers, so I have no idea what I did.  BUT it’s fixed now, so just know that if you did comment, I didn’t get it so I can’t reply back like I always do!

And while we’re on the topic of blog comments, I always reply back to the people who comment to me with an email.  If you are a no-reply blogger (aka your email isn’t connected to your account) then I can’t email you back!  If you comment and never get a reply, that’s why!

Now, onto today’s FAVORITES!

 My sister came and ate lunch with me so duh, that’s a huge favorite!!!  



 Wrapping presents isn’t a favorite, but a wrapped present is…if that makes sense!  I had to wrap presents for my small group Christmas party so while I technically didn’t really enjoy doing it, the final product was so satisfying!



And speaking of my small group Christmas party, we had it at my house and it was a “Favorite Things” themed.  Each girl brought 5 of the same gifts that were her favorite thing or related to her favorite thing that was only $5–that was the hard part!  I found my gift on MAJOR sale on Black Friday so I gifted each girl with a Jesus Storybook Bible!  We had a great time and I’m so glad to be in a small group with these girls.



Victoria and I just wrapped up our first week of The Most Wonderful Time of the Year link up and it’s been so fun reading everyone’s posts and getting new ideas!  My posts for this week are…


Join us next week with these topics…

  • December 11th Christmas Card cohosted by Taz + Belly
  • December 12th Holiday Home Tour cohosted by Michaela Noelle Designs
  • December 13th Favorite Holiday Party Recipe cohosted by The Queen in Between
  • December 14th Favorite Meaningful Holiday Memories



Linking up with Erika, Heather, and Amanda

A Christmas Gift Guide FOR TEACHERS!!

Victoria and I are wrapping up our first week of The Most Wonderful Time of the Year link up with a post on gift guides!  Erica from Whimsical September is cohosting today, so be sure to swing by her blog because she has made some really great gift guides the last couple of weeks!

Today’s post won’t be full of pictures and links because I had my small group Christmas party last night and didn’t have time to make a really great post.  Today’s post will be full of ideas!



A couple of disclaimers:

  • Teachers DO NOT expect any gifts ever, so we are always so surprised and appreciative of anything we receive!
  • Gifts for elementary teachers won’t work for secondary teachers because your child most likely has one teacher in elementary and multiple in secondary, so gift prices obviously go down.
Gift Ideas for Elementary Teachers:
  • A gift card to get a basic manicure–these are $15 or less and will be much appreciated!!
  • Luxury lotion
  • A themed gift basket set–nails, coffee, teas, movie night, etc.
  • Gift cards to anywhere!!

Gift Ideas for Secondary Teachers:
  • $5 gift card to Starbucks
  • Redbox gift card with a box of movie theater popcorn
  • monogrammed tumbler
  • coffee cup with box of hot chocolate
  • Bath and Body Works soap or lotion
  • Cookies from a local bakery
You don’t have to spend a ton of money to make a teacher feel loved and appreciated!  Hopefully some of these ideas work well for you!  I typically shy away from making homemade goodies for the teacher unless that teacher knows you personally.  I hate to say this, but a lot of teachers don’t eat food given to them by students if we don’t know the parents and how clean they are.  It’s hard to want to eat food from a kid that we’ve seen pick his/her nose in our class.



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