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Six Holiday Gift Buying Tips to Save You a Bundle

November 19, 2015 By Lauren

6 gift buying tips to save you a ton of cash this Holiday season

This post contains an affiliate link. At no cost to you, I will receive referral credit if you sign up for ebates through this link. Thanks for your support! Philosophies on how to raise children may abound, but if there’s one thing all parents can agree on, it’s this: Having kids is expensive. From food […]

Filed Under: Holidays Tagged With: Christmas, gift buying, gift buying tips, gifts, holidays, money, saving money

Week 49: Did Christmas Meet Your Expectations?

December 29, 2014 By Lauren

Keeping It Real Christmas Expectations

Does anyone else feel like Christmas day is always a little anticlimactic? I love love love the season leading up to it, but then the actual day arrives and it’s kinda like, eh. It doesn’t usually live up to the hype. Or maybe I should say, it doesn’t usually live up to my ridiculous expectations. […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: Christmas, christmas expectations, expectations, family, family time, fun, keeping it real, lower expectations

What Would It Be Like to Raise a Perfect Son?

December 20, 2014 By Lauren

Perfect Son

This time of year always gets me thinking about Mary. Not just about the pictures of her we see in the nativity scenes that pop up everywhere in December, but about what it must have been like to be her. What Would It Be Like to Raise a Perfect Son? Before I go any further, […]

Filed Under: Holidays Tagged With: Christmas, jesus, love, mary, mother, motherhood, nativity, parenting, perfect, son

You’re Thinking of Buying Her WHAT for Christmas?!

December 11, 2014 By Lauren

You're Buying Her WHAT for Christmas?!

Disclosure: Guys, this post if full of ideas about what NOT to get your wife for Christmas. However, in case you decide to ignore my advice, I’m including affiliate links to some of my anti-suggestions. You won’t pay a penny more than normal and I’ll get a small commission. The way I see it, you […]

Filed Under: Holidays Tagged With: Christmas, gift giving, gifts, men, presents, what not to do, women

Santa: Benevolent Do-Gooder or Creepy Old Man?

December 5, 2014 By Lauren

Santa: Do-Gooder or Creepy

A version of this post first appeared on my Bangor Daily News blog in December 2012. I was sitting in the living room watching Eric and Samuel hang ornaments on the Christmas tree. White lights twinkled, the pellet stove blazed, Bing Crosby crooned in my head (we didn’t actually have music on… I’m trying to […]

Filed Under: Holidays Tagged With: Christmas, creepy old man, do-gooder, humor, Santa

My Five Favorite Christmas Books

December 3, 2014 By Lauren

My-Five-Favorite-Christmas-Books

If you’d like to spread some holiday cheer, use my affiliate links and please have no fear. You won’t pay more, but I’ll get a few cents, to keep my blog running by paying the rents. (Okay that last line needs some work, but my point is: This post has some affiliate links. If you […]

Filed Under: Holidays Tagged With: books, Christmas, Christmas books, favorite, kids, kids books, read, reading, winter, winter books

Week 43: Oh What Fun!

November 18, 2014 By Lauren

Keeping It Real Challenge Oh What Fun

I’ve already braced myself for the shunning I’m going to receive for this one; I’m mentally prepared for the mass exodus as people ‘unlike’ my Facebook page and ‘unfollow’ me on Twitter. Maybe I’m being overly dramatic, but I’ve found that people harbor very strongly held opinions when it comes to this subject and tempers […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: Christmas, christmas decorations, contest, early, tacky, Thanksgiving, ugly christmas decorations, weird

Sharing Our Blessings: An Adventure in Gratitude and Giving

October 28, 2014 By Lauren

Sharing Our Blessings

Don’t you love getting hit with inspiration? This morning I came upon a post from the blogger behind the Imagination Tree. She’s not in love with the Elf on the Shelf (can I get an amen?) and has come up with an alternative: The Kindness Elves. You should go read what her plan is because […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Holidays, I Tried It! Tagged With: adventure, blessing, Christmas, giving, gratitude, sharing our blessings, thankful, Thanksgiving

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