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Leftovers

Our FAVORITE Christmas Story

No, it’s not A Christmas Carol, though that IS a classic. And it isn’t Saint Nicholas: The Real Story of the Christmas Legend or The Legend of the Candy Cane, though those are great stories, too. No, our favorite Christmas Story is one that most people probably haven’t heard of: The Christmas Lizard by Corey Edwards. The Christmas Lizard is a story about a pet lizard, Oscar, who was given …

Making Home

Tackling the Kids’ Books

We like books around here, and with my kids’ penchants for picking up books at the thrift store or the Dollar General, we started having a little bit of a book overflow issue. Since we no longer do school in the corner of Little Prince’s room, there really wasn’t a reason the tall bookcase had to be in there, so I decided to switch it with the short one in …

Making Home

Tackling the Shelves

Our big tackle for this week was de-cluttering and weeding the bookshelves, which had once again attained “quite horrendous!” status. We needed to rearrange a little to make room for the Christmas tree – and you need to clear big heavy bookcases before moving them anyway – so I finally reached a point where I didn’t have a choice but to do anything about it. Oh, I suppose I COULD …