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Celebrate Everyday

Tracy — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:57:42 +0000

Pick a fun new holiday to celebrate. Take pictures, laugh and enjoy the day.

September 5th Cheese Pizza Day

Who doesn’t love cheese pizza? It’s my daughter’s favorite food. Make a pizza with your children. Find a new recipe. Learn how to make your own pizza crust. And don’t forget to add lots of cheese! Can’t wait to try this pizza crust. And I love trying new sauce recipes like this one or this one.

September 6th Read a Book Day

Pick up that book you haven’t had time to read. Share the joy of reading with your children. Have them read to you or find a new book to read to them. Right now I’m reading The Time Traveler’s Wife and my daughter is really into The Magic Treehouse Series, Junie B Jones Series and can’t wait for us to start Little House in the Big Woods.

Christmas Memories

Tracy — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:32:07 +0000

This was such a fun project. I used a 4×6 photo album. On the left side I designed a journaling block and used some cute, aged Christmas paper. I left the right side blank, easy to slip in a 4×6 photo. What a great place to keep those treasured Christmas moments from one year or many years, of your children’s lives or from your own special memories growing up.

This method of scrapbooking is called Photo Album Scrapbooking. You can learn more about it here and here and here.

Today is National Doughnut Day

Tracy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:00:55 +0000

What a great holiday! Celebrating doughnuts, yum!

Wikipedia tells us that the first Friday of June is National Doughnut Day. In 1938, National Doughnut Day was started as a Salvation Army fundraiser to honor the women of World War I who served doughnuts to the soldiers in France.

Today, some of the doughnut locations here in the US are giving away free doughnuts.

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is giving away a free doughnut to every customer that visits a participating Krispy Kreme store.

I’ve heard Dunkin’ Donuts is giving away a free doughnut with the purchase of a beverage.

Enjoy!

Hug Your Cat Day – June 4th

Tracy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:00:30 +0000

Today is “Hug Your Cat Day”. If your cat is anything like our cat, that may be tough to do. He’s not much of a hugger, especially hugs from our 5-year-old.

When was the last time you took pictures of your cat (or dog or bird or fish or whatever)? They are part of the family, too. Don’t forget to include them in your photo albums, scrapbooks and stories.

June is National Iced Tea Month

Tracy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:26:15 +0000

Since moving to North Carolina two years ago, my favorite beverage has been sweet tea. Whenever we would go out I would order sweet tea. Who knew every restaurant in the South had sweet tea? Then I learned how to make it! Yum! But I had to stop, my daily dose of sugar was getting out of control . So now I only drink it when we go out, and, I’ve discovered, each restaurant makes it a little different. My favorite? Chick-Fil-A.

What is your favorite iced tea? Sweet? Unsweetened? Flavored?

Here are some recipe links to get you started making your own iced tea.