Christmas

Link Up Your Christmas Post — Here Is Ours

December 26, 2011

This year, Santa’s reindeer even got Reindeer Food — my friend Heather shared hers with us. Santa delivered — Lego, Playmobil, a big boy cup, and easy-reading books. In the afternoon, we headed to Don’s sister’s house, where the whole Bleasdale Clan always comes together for Christmas. After shooting 200+ pictures two Christmases ago and [...]

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Braving the Mall a Day Before Christmas

December 24, 2011

Don hates shopping. Even more than me. But he has the curious habit of wanting to brave the mall once a year — a day before Christmas. We only needed one gift for his nephew — psst, Don is his secret Santa — and we could have bought it in Mount Kisco, but after breakfast [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Video of a Silly Boy

December 15, 2010

Remember the video about how much fun Landon had with baby Jesus last week? Here is a video I shot in the same store when we spent half the day in the mall, and he’s being his silly self with a huge pine cone. The boy just can’t sit still when he hears music. Still [...]

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Remembering Christmas and Winter in Germany

December 12, 2010

{source} I just came across some pictures of German winter scenes, Christmas markets, and Christmas ornaments I grew up with. Made me all nostalgic about my childhood in Germany. I didn’t like the cold weather, but loved Christmas time — my mom would decorate the house, we always had a huge, real Christmas tree in [...]

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Fun at the Mall: Santa, Baby Jesus, and Holiday Cheer

December 7, 2010

Landon and I spent five hours at the mall today. That’s why you didn’t get a blog post from me earlier. I didn’t intend it to take that long, but we just had too much fun exploring. It’s getting pretty cold here in Westchester, and I thought spending some quality mother-son time in the mall [...]

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9 Ways to De-Stress and Spend Less Over the Holidays

December 4, 2010

I guest-blogged for Amy, the lovely Frugal Mama, while she was on a break after having her fourth child and now I get the honor of hosting one of her always well-written posts. Takes her suggestions to heart and have fun this holiday season! Making the holidays special for the kids doesn’t have to cost [...]

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Not Me! Monday — 200 Pictures and Not One With the Christmas Tree

December 28, 2009

I did not take over 200 pictures at the Bleasdale Clan Christmas party, so many that my family members begged me to PUT THAT CAMERA DOWN! and forgot the most important one — the one of Don and Landon and me in front of Lisa’s huge, beautiful tree. We have a picture of that every [...]

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Getting Ready for Santa . . .

December 25, 2009

In the last two days we got ready for Christmas and Santa’s appearance. We started with the little Christmas party they had at Landon’s preschool. Yummy, cupcakes for breakfast! After nothing but sugary treats, those 10 kids went bananas! Landon got to dance and play a little bit and then we left, because he usually [...]

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Our Fake Christmas Tree 2009

December 20, 2009

As always, I was going to buy a real Christmas tree this year, but I ended up with a fake one. Why? Because frugal me saw the price on the kind of tree I wanted — medium height, thick branches, preferably in a pot so I don’t have to buy a stand and can plant [...]

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Lots of Kisses and a Wig

March 25, 2009

It is very late, again, I just returned from another great Role Mommy event at the White Plains Library, so all you get tonight/this morning is three pictures of L from Christmas… Those kisses and the wig, you ask? The Bleasdale clan performs a show every Christmas, we all perform little skits or sing or play an [...]