Were you to go to any store during the week after Christmas, you would see huge lines. Not at the checkouts, but at the service desk as people are busy returning gifts they didn’t want. Today I want to ask: Will you be returning Jesus? The greatest gift ever given was Jesus. An innocent baby, God in disguise. We welcome him with praises and singing, we rejoice as we learn that this baby will be our redeemer. We read stories […]
Simple Lessons for Toddlers at Christmas
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #JoinTheSearch #CollectiveBias Teaching children through play games, singing songs, and reading books is something I’ve always enjoyed. While we’ve read bible stories to Kolton since he was tiny, I wanted to do something with him that taught more about the birth of Christ. I’ve drawn up 3 simple lessons for toddlers at Christmas and thought I would share them here too. I was inspired […]
Husband Gives Me Horrible Gifts
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.In a Dear Abby type column last year I read a letter written by a sad and frustrated woman. “My husband gives me horrible gifts” she wrote and pleaded for the answer in helping her husband give her the gifts that truly made the season magical. 1 year he bought her a vacuum and another year it was a Kitchen Aid mixer. Other horrible gifts from him included winter gloves and snow scraper for her car, a padded mat to […]
Easiest Online Christmas List – How to Keep it all Together
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.Disclaimer: Easiest online Christmas list organization is a collaboration between A Proverbs 31 wife and Clipix. I have a true love/hate relationship with Christmas lists. Every year I hear “I need your Christmas list”, and every year my mind goes blank. I know I just saw something that I need/want but I cannot remember what it was. I agree that lists are nice, and it’s fun if the person you are buying for has a large list, but most of the time […]
Last Minute Food Gifts ~ A Baker’s Dozen
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.Who doesn’t love giving (and receiving!) food gifts? They are fun, practical, and really just a simple way to tell someone you thought of them. I’ve looked around the web and found some great ideas. Here are 13 different last minute food gifts that you can make for friends and neighbors. Food gifts are truly my favorite kind of gifts to both give and receive. The only thing I ask, is that if you want to pin this post for […]
Punny Christmas Gifts for Friends and Neighbors
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.This year we we will be giving a lot of Punny Christmas Gifts. Not only are these Christmas gifts humorous, most of them are very practical and useful. A side benefit is the fact that they don’t cost a whole lot either. In fact, the best fun usually is the cheapest. 🙂 You can create a punny gift basket to give neighbors, or a grab bag of funny punny gifts to hand out to co-workers. I made two gift baskets, […]
Merry Christmas, +Living Proverbs 31 Linkup
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.Merry Christmas my friends!!!! I hope you are all doing well and eagerly awaiting the arrival of Christmas. The day when we celebrate the birth of our Lord. I also hope you manage to find services to attend that day as well. What better place to celebrate His birth than at his house? Before I get to the features and linkup, I want to make a brief announcement. I will be taking a bit of time away from now until […]
No More Drama. Avoid the Scheduling Drama at Christmas time +Linkup!
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.How about a year with no more drama? Or a Holiday season without the normal scheduling drama? When I was growing up, it seemed that each year, the holidays brought drama, of the scheduling kind. My two grandparents traded off having the big family Christmas on Christmas eve and day. Whomever didn’t have their Christmas on the day would often try and schedule theirs as closely as possible. Of course this is what would happen; Mother’s parents would have the […]
Save Money at Christmas by Getting Creative with Your Gift Wrap
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.Okay, all those pretty gifts, you know, the ones that are perfectly wrapped and sporting beautiful bows? Yeah those gifts, well, they sure aren’t the gifts I wrapped! So maybe I’m a bit tired or maybe it’s laziness due to the little one zapping away all of my energy, but my gifts look anything but picture perfect this year. However, they do have a certain charm all of their own. After all, how many times does a person receive their […]
“Jolly Old Elf” Why he Doesn’t Visit Our House
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.The “Jolly Old Elf” or the fat man with a fake beard better known as Santa Claus doesn’t visit our house. Of course he doesn’t visit anyone’s house and we all know it. But we just keep lying to the kids. WARNING: I may step on some toes here, however I don’t require my readers to always agree with me. Every year I find myself cringing. Kids that I watch tell me “Santa Claus is coming”. I overhear parents telling […]
Thoughts on Advent.
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.Depending on how your family does your advent calendar. That last day, is either today or tomorrow. But does that really mean advent is over? source Here are my thoughts on advent. Advent is a time of waiting and preparation. A time of looking forward to a time and place. Commonly it’s looking forward to Christmas. A time when we celebrate the first coming of Christ. Christmas is now here. Tonight and tomorrow we celebrate the first coming of Christ. And […]
Holiday Food ~ Cheese Ball Recipe
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.Holiday food: one thing that comes to mind would be a cheese ball. After all, would it really be a family gathering with out a cheese ball? I don’t think so! 🙂 So, when I held my Christmas Open house, the cheese ball certainly made the menu! I promised I would share the recipe, but, I only got one good photo. The cheese ball got dug into before I remembered to take a picture. Oops! Recipe for Cheese Ball: 1 […]
Shopping Saturday with My Favorite Shops
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.Because of everything else going on right now, this will be the last Shopping Saturday for awhile. I’m pretty busy, and time is running out to order Christmas gifts. So today I am just going to share a few of my favorite shops. That is, shops that I’ve found something awesome at! LOL, Since I know some of the friends and families I shop for read this blog, I’m going to be rather vague. But here are the shops I […]
What Happens to My Shoe Box?
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.So, maybe you are like me, you packed a shoe box for Operation Christmas Child and now you wonder; “what happens to my shoe box?” After I shared my post last week where I packed my shoe box, I got a comment from a friend who told me that the little mirror would be removed (insert really sad face here). I started emailing back and forth with her, and found out she has helped with getting those thousands of shoe […]
Packing a Christmas Shoe Box
Disclaimer: A Proverbs 31 Wife uses Affiliate links and ads to support this site. Read full disclosure here.What’s in your shoe box? I remember helping pack a Christmas Shoe box for operation Christmas Child when I was a kid, as we got older we would each help pack a shoe box. November is the month, to get these Christmas shoe boxes packed up and dropped off, at one of the many drop off locations. If you have never packed a Christmas shoe box before, it’s really easy. We decided to pack two this year. One for a […]