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Healthy gingerbread cookies made with whole grains and honey are a favorite Christmas cookie at our house! We’ve been making these cookies for so many years. They’re perfect for the holiday season. One of our favorite Christmas traditions is making these classic healthy gingerbread cookies. They’re sweetened with honey and molasses, and I usually use spelt flour to make them even healthier. Healthy Gingerbread Cookies
Family Christmas Traditions to start with your family this year. Do you have family Christmas traditions that your family looks forward to each year? Family traditions are surprisingly easy to start. All that’s required is to repeat the same activity year after year. In a relatively short few years, your family will come to expect the same activities to be repeated, which creates memorable Christmas
With Christmas just around the corner, now is the perfect time for some fun and easy Christmas crafts for kids! Best of all, many of these crafts are budget-friendly and cost just a few dollars to make! Kids love Christmas. The colorful lights, the festive music, the tasty cookies and treats. Many children look forward to Christmas as their favorite time of the year. But
When you’re broke at Christmas, it can feel like a hard thing. Especially when you have kids. How are you going to give your kids a special Christmas when you don’t have any money? But even if you don’t have kids, being broke at Christmas can still be discouraging. So often, when we want to show love to friends and family, we turn to gift-giving.
99 Best Christmas Cookie recipes to help you with your holiday baking plans this year! 99 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes Do you love to bake Christmas cookies? Have a Christmas cookie swap to attend? Here’s an amazing assortment of Christmas cookie recipes to choose from! Chocolate Christmas Cookie Recipes 1. Chocolate Star Cookies from Artful Homemaking 2. Chocolate Crinkle Cookies from Or Whatever You Do 3. Double
Christmas Pretzel Hugs are a classic Christmas treat around our house. Here’s our M&M pretzel hugs recipe. This week our girls had a Christmas party to attend, and we were asked to bring a treat to share. It wasn’t even a question in my mind what we would make—Christmas Pretzel Hugs, of course! I didn’t have much time to spend on holiday baking, and I
Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year. I love the food, the traditions, and just everything about it! Already this year, we’ve made our traditional gingerbread houses, made candy and baked goods (we made cut-out cookies, chocolate star cookies, fudge, and divinity) to share with the neighbors , and went on our traditional trip to the city to go ice skating. Tomorrow is our
Ideas for cultivating a peaceful heart this Christmas. This year I did something I always said I would never do. I went Black Friday shopping. 🙂 Our Crazy Shopping Experience We had driven to the city to see family for Thanksgiving, and they live just about two minutes from the mall. As we left their house to head home (around 9:30 pm), we had to
Traditions are important. I never realized how important they were until my older children neared their teen years, and they began making sure all of our traditions were carried out even when I might have been too tired or overwhelmed to make them happen myself! I remember one year thinking that maybe we didn’t really need to do our annual gingerbread houses. It seemed like
