I'm so crafty

Actually, I am terrible at crafts.  But today I made my FAVORITE CRAFT EVER!  I think I love it so much because I know I will use it year after year.  It's an advent calendar with cute little boxes that we modge podged with christmas paper.  Each day the kids get to open a box and inside will be an idea of something Christmas-y to do.     Like a recipe for snowman soup (see below), read a Christmas story or go to the Nativity.  I know they will love this new tradition.  It was so easy to make, and it was really fun hanging out with the girls at the same time!  We are still looking for things to put in our boxes....  does anyone have any ideas? 

1 individual pack hot chocolate mix

5 Hershey's chocolate kisses

12-17 mini-marshmallows

1 small candy cane

My Very Own

I am so excited to be doing my own blog!!!  I love reading other people's blogs so I thought it was time to start my own.  Well, actually, I thought that a long time ago, but I just can't take it anymore...I need to be a blogger!  I am so thankful to Stephanie who is teaching me and helping to make it cute...which it will be soon.  I am also thankful to everyone who's blogs I have been reading (or snooping, depending on how you look at it :) for inspiring me.  It has been so much fun reading about your lives. What a fun way to journal and to share my life with others.  

So here's a toast to me and my new blog.