janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
Welcome to my world in 2010. To my readers, old and new, I wish you a very Happy New Year. How did you see in the New Year? As usual we stayed in as a family, but this year our 2 daughters man…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
Last December (2008) I came across this idea to Post the first sentence of your first blog post of each month. You can also add a favorite picture from each month I cheated slightly, as it is m…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
I decided to use a sort-of Christmas meme to recap this month of daily blogging, and have interspersed it with some of my fave photos from this month too. Favorite ornament? Too many to choose from…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
I asked my bloggy friend Mrs Miles, in Canada, for some inspiration on what to blog about today. She was as helpful as ever and came up with lots of suggestions, but I chose to share the followi…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
As this month (and year) comes to an end, my ambitions to blog daily are waning, but I am perservering! This morning, with below freezing temperatures, I headed out to the sales at The Outlet, Ban…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
I was thrilled to have over 20 participants from around the world participating in my first Christmas Nativity Blog Carnival. If you have not yet had a chance to visit all the blogs taking part…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
Before sharing Boxing Day, I first want to share some photos from our Christmas Eve family traditions. New PJ's, lighting the Advent candles and singing carols. Leaving Santa's snack and the…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
A short a sweet post is in order. Christmas Day is almost over, so I just want to share a few images from the last 24 hours. Normal (rambling) blogging will resume shortly. …
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
After much excitement and preparation, Christmas Day is nearly here. We are having a major cleaning/purging/chopping of vegetables this morning - involving as much of the family as possible. As I am…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
Today was another "at home" day with the kids. I put a few more finishing touches to the dining table, which I forgot to share with you yesterday, despite including it in the title. My middle dau…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
Today has been a day for "getting things done" - I love those sorts of days. Definitely feeling a bit festive around here, still some snow lying around the garden, and even the occasional flurry of f…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
This is a very quick post, sharing one of the younger members of our congregation at our Candlelit Carol Service last night. I will be back tomorrow with more Christmas blogging. If you have not…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
I am posting this on the evening of the 20th, although the blog carnival will start at midnight. As a christian, Christmas is about so much more than presents, christmas lights and roast turkey, a…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
The party for my 12 year old is over, and we survived - the chocolate fountain (a HUGE success!) (served with marshmallows, mini doughnuts, jelly babies, grapes, strawberries and fresh pineapples)…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
Can you believe that this time next week will be Christmas Day? This morning we had our first sprinkling of snow - and more is forecast. Here in N Ireland we rarely have a white christmas, but maybe t…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
My mum's florentines are infamous, and I frequently am asked for the recipe. Before sharing it, I have to confess I have never made them myself. As my Mum delivers boxes of them from time to tim…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
As I have just finished making some teacher gifts this morning, I thought I would share a few Christmas craft ideas Chocolate -Chip and Pecan Cookies in a Jar Using digi-scrapped the gift tags (a…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
Like many mums when I stopped work (or should that be paid employment outside the home! I still work but without pay) I miss out on a staff Christmas party. Not that these were particular highlights o…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
It is always a sense of relief when Santa letters are composed and dispatched in this house, as it means there can be no last minute pressure on Santa to deliver a certain toy when he is certain all h…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
One of the highlights since starting to blog was discovering the annual Home Tour hosted by the delightful BooMama. This will be my 3rd Christmas inviting blog friends, old and new, to take a p…
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janmary has posted a new entry on: Welcome to my world JanMary
We have the joy of two kids birthdays in December, both this side of Christmas. So admist the present buying and card writing we have 2 birthday parties to organise. This year our middle d…
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