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December 12, 2013

Christmas Chocolate Dipped Pretzels

This morning I spent a lovely couple of hours visiting my Mom! We continued a tradition that her, my sister, and I have done for the last few years: making chocolate dipped pretzels! Unfortunately my sister is away (in Africa!) so she was unable to join us, but the tradition continues :) It's super easy and I probably

December 06, 2013

Last Day

Today is my last day at my current job! It's kind of weird, but good at the same time. I've had many different jobs that I've come and gone from, but this is the first one that when I was hired it was an indefinite thing, knowing I'd try and stay as long as I could. Well sadly

November 27, 2013

Not how I thought I'd spend my weekend...

Have you ever been to the hospital? Visiting other's sure, but hospitilized yourself? Hopefully not! Up until now I'd have been able to answer that with a negative, but as of last Saturday I cannot! There's so many different reasons why people are hospitalized, many of them not good ones. Mine is not a good one I suppose

November 20, 2013

Simon's Cat

Once upon a time there was a cat, he was Simon's cat, and he was hilarious! If you are a cat person, or even if you're not a cat person you will enjoy the hilarity of Simon's cat! There are over 40 short clips that are just so fun! If you don't believe me watch these: *But be

November 15, 2013

Meet Sherlock

Last April we had some friends over for dinner. At one point our conversation turned to cats because they had a kitten of their own. A few days later I was sent a link to a Kijiji ad for kittens and I was hooked! We looked around for Siamese specifically because that is what Deniss wanted and not

November 14, 2013

A Framed Ring Holder

I wear my wedding bands 24/7...except when I take them off to sleep and apply lotion (I can hear Deniss in the background saying "the lotion industry thanks you!"). I used to keep my wedding and and engagement ring in the ring box they came in, until one day I'd opened and closed it one to many times

Lady Antebellum is one of my favorite musical groups! They are country (which I know is a turn off for some), but not the twangy kind that non-country fans might imagine when you hear the word 'country'! They have both male and females vocals with lovely harmonies that are music to my ears (pun intended) when I hear their songs :)

Last Christmas they released an album called: "On This Winter's Night" with many traditional Christmas songs, but an original by them as well, which is the namesake of the album.

I heard it again for the first time this season as I made my trek to work and was reminded of this lovely song. What caught my attention this time however, was the last verse. So many times I can listen to a song and even sing along, but never really 'hear' what it's saying. This time I did :)
The last verse says:

The wise men heard the angels sing

Hymn-like soft and low

The king became a child a long long time ago

And the child became a king

So the whole wide world will know

What Christmas really is

I can just hear the tune in my head and my co-workers around me are lucky I don't start singing out loud! (don't worry, I'm on lunch as I write this).

The words are stated so simply and yet so full of meaning and truth. I hope that others that hear this song hear the lyrics as clearly as I did this morning and are able to stop and think about what they really mean!

I don't think we can remind ourselves often enough that Jesus is what Christmas is all about. In such a fast paced culture and a materialistic society it's easy to get caught up in the 'holidays', shopping in a frenzy, attending innumerable festive events, going to church on Christmas Eve, then rushing home to open presents (guilty!). Sometimes it really takes an effort to slow down and be conscious or our reason for celebration everyday, and not just on the day. Feels redundant? Possibly. Necessary? Absolutely! :)

And that's my plug for Lady A and Baby Jesus...

Happy (early) Christmas!

p.s. still reading and have an extra 4 minutes? Take a listen to the song!

November 12, 2013

A 'Scrap' Book

I have a tendency to accumulate things throughout the year. Things like wedding invites, Christmas picture cards, and post cards I collect when we travel etc. And I have a hard time parting with them. I found this idea on Pinterest (where else!?) to create a 'Scrap' Book for each year. It's so simple and so wonderful for

November 07, 2013

Marriage Tips!

I was on the Focus on the Family website yesterday and on the home page there was a link that said: 'this week's marriage tip' with a little tip underneath. It seemed interesting enough so I clicked it to see more. *I hope you didn't think I was actually going to give marriage advice haha! That would be

November 05, 2013

An Organization Station

While I was perusing Pinterest one day I came across this organizational board that someone had created. I love lists and charts and calendars and anything that is a visual that makes life (seem) easier :) so I was drawn to it right away. See the original Organization Board Tutorial by Girl Loves Glam here. I didn't mimic it

October 25, 2013

Why is Knitting the new Nintendo?

Where in the world did I come up with this as my blog name? I tried so many other options, all of them taken (clearly the better choices haha!) and then this one just popped into my head. I try so hard to be witty and clever sometimes, I feel so pressured to 'get it right' so that

October 25, 2013

I have a blog!

Well this is interesting! I started a blog...who's going to read it? I have no idea. But I'm doing it anyways! The idea came to me a few days ago that perhaps it would be fun. My husband Deniss had a blog when he first moved to Canada, I read through all his posts a while back and it

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Knitting is the new Nintendo

Christmas Chocolate Dipped Pretzels

Christmas Chocolate Dipped Pretzels

Last Day

Last Day

Not how I thought I'd spend my weekend...

Not how I thought I'd spend my weekend...

Simon's Cat

Simon's Cat

Meet Sherlock

Meet Sherlock

A Framed Ring Holder

A Framed Ring Holder

"On This Winter's Night"

A 'Scrap' Book

A 'Scrap' Book

Marriage Tips!

Marriage Tips!

An Organization Station

An Organization Station

Why is Knitting the new Nintendo?

Why is Knitting the new Nintendo?

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