12 Days of Christmas alcoholic beverages, cocktails, dessert liqueur recipes
As holiday merry-makers head into #Christmas, here are cocktail and dessert liqueur recipes to count down the 12 Days of Christmas. Use these holiday-themed alcoholic drinks, aperitifs, cordials, liqueurs, and cocktails for parties and intimate gatherings. And of course, imbibe in moderation. Unless otherwise noted, drinks should be made with equal portions of each beverage but adjust ingredients to your own taste. Brands are suggested but use your preferred liquors. Serve in Santa Claus-shaped coffee mugs or holiday tumblers. To garnish, skewer listed items on silver, red, or green sword toothpicks. 12 Days of Christmas alcoholic beverages, cocktails, dessert liqueur recipes
Holiday parenting: Jobs for older kids to help at Thanksgiving and Christmas
As the Holidays near, children ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas vacation. A house full of kids is hardly a break for Parents, however, especially when kids are getting Black Friday toy blitzed. Advertisers know just how to target the Christmas gimmes. If you're not concerned about greedy kids, you should be. Research says many develop holiday related behavior issues coveting toys and Christmas gifts. Don't let your season of joy turn into the nightmare before Christmas. Start kids early helping and giving back instead of just taking. Here are ways to engage older children in holiday preparation. Holiday parenting: Jobs for older kids to help at Thanksgiving and Christmas
Beyonce boasts Christmas trees and breasts: guess which get most attention
Beyonce boasted Christmas trees and breasts in a selfie holiday video and which do you think got the most notice? Queen Bey bared all her evergreen decorations and most all of her front side to show off her holiday spirit. Hello Giggles raved over #Beyonce's barely-there dress but it irked many fans that the R&B goddess would flaunt boobs in front of the Yule tree collection. Beyonce boasts Christmas trees and breasts: guess which get most attention
Kim Kardashian, Kanye West show off Christmas tree
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West came out of their social media hiatus to flaunt her assets, his mental wellness, and their Christmas decorations. The couple's endured a series of unfortunate events lately, including Kardashian-West's Paris attack and Kanye's subsequent (and possibly related) emotional meltdown, and rehab stint. After rumors of a Kimye split, they made a valiant effort to appear a happy, normal couple in a holiday video. What's really up with the reality TV family? Kim Kardashian, Kanye West come out to flaunt assets, wedded bliss, and big Christmas tree
Cheap Christmas stocking stuffers, candy alternatives: 100+ party prizes, cheap gifts for kids
Raise your hand if you overspend on kids at Christmas. Well, you're not alone. A lot of folks are in debt but still over-indulge at the holidays. It's time to rein in that spending and here are ideas to do that. Use this list of super-cheap but nice stocking stuffers. Fill the stocking for about $5 bucks with cute nice toys and Christmas gifts and WITHOUT candy! lol Halloween alternatives: 100+ non-food, non-candy Trick-or-Treat prizes, giveways
Halloween candy for Christmas? Why Not? Halloween candy leftovers use-up recipes, holiday gift-giving ideas
Looking for ways to use up Trick-or-treat candy leftovers? Try one of these healthy ways to use up leftover Halloween goodies in Christmas gifts, holiday recipes and donations. With the holiday season fast approaching there will be lots more candy to deal with. Use these ideas there too. Halloween candy leftovers use-up recipes, ways to reuse stale candy from Trick-or-Treat
DIY crafts: Homemade polar fleece no-sew blanket and pillow sets, gift crafts
Christmas in June? Well, no not really, but it's good to start DIY crafts and gift crafts for Christmas during the summer. Does the holiday season find you making DIY crafts? Here are budget gift crafts and DIY crafts for kids holiday gifts. A good way to organize and save money on gift crafts is with themed giving. Each holiday season, choose a theme and create gift crafts for each person on your list from that theme. You can do gift baskets, books, hobbies or games. This year, how about a polar fleece no-sew blanket and pillow theme? DIY crafts: Homemade polar fleece no-sew blanket and pillow sets, gift crafts | Examiner.comHealthy brunch recipes to use up leftover stale bread, holiday leftovers
Hosting a New Year's Day brunch? The last thing you need, after the spending extravaganza that was Christmas, is something more to spend money on. New Year's Day is the time for resolutions to cut back. So how about recipes to use up holiday leftovers, particularly stale bread, rolls, muffins and baked goods. Don't pitch stale bread. Put leftover stale bread in a bag in the fridge (separate sweet bread from savory). Gather up holiday leftovers of meat, sausage, cheese, dried fruit, nuts and eggs (don't forget the separated egg yolks and whites leftover from recipes). Use up leftover vegetables from veggies trays and holiday cooking (bits of onion, green pepper, mushrooms, etc.). When you have enough. repurpose holiday leftovers in yummy recipes that use up leftover stale bread so it doesn't go to waste. Remember these use up recipes won't have exact measurements and maybe not even specific ingredients. It all depends on what leftovers you have and how much you have leftover. Healthy brunch recipes to use up leftover stale bread, holiday leftovers | Examiner.com
Low salt diet holiday recipes to use up leftover ham, smoked meat leftovers
It's Dec. 28 and everyone is more than a little tired of ham. Small problem, however--you bought a 15 pound and there is quite a bit left. With the New Year sneaking up, you're resolving to lose weight from Christmas indulgence. Here are dual purpose diet holiday recipes and low salt foods to use up leftover ham and Christmas smoked meat leftovers in light, delicious ways. These diet holiday recipes are great for sweeter honey baked ham leftovers use up (that kind of ham is harder to repurpose). Low salt diet holiday recipes to use up leftover ham, smoked meat leftovers | Examiner.com
Christmas presents: Personalized, reusable containers for holiday gift baskets
Why is it that gift baskets always come in a basket? Baskets make pretty, useful containers, but how about personalized reusable gift baskets in which the container is part of the present. part of a personalized gift? Below is a list of reusable gift containers. Christmas presents: Personalized, reusable containers for holiday gift baskets | Examiner.com
Maine urinating Santa po'd locals: ISIS Christmas holiday display 'wet' interest
The nineties are alive in Portland, Oregon, but the naughties thrive Portland, Maine (or in nearby Limerick, at least). Limerick, Maine residents are po'd by a urinating Santa holiday display, reported the Associated Press on Dec. 14. But it's not that St Nick is relieving himself, but upon what he's piddling--a lit up ISIS sign--that's causing the stink. A Limerick, Maine homeowner used Christmas lights to spell out ISIS (evidently referring to the Islamic State terrorist group). Then he situated a Santa Claus decoration with a string of white lights connecting the jolly old elf's crotch to the ISIS sign. But the urinating Santa depiction didn't come across clearly. It almost looked like Father Christmas was showering blessings, not bodily fluids on ISIS. You could say the Maine ISIS Christmas shower show "wet" curiosity, (That's right, keep groaning, the jokes will only get soggier!) Maine urinating Santa po'd locals: ISIS Christmas holiday display 'wet' interest | Examiner.com
Holiday parenting: At-home family fun for sick kids on Christmas vacation | Examiner.com
Wouldn't you know it--Christmas vacation is finally here and your child gets ill. Holidays can be miserable for sick kids (and parents who must care for them). Missed parties, curtailed activities, everyone stuck at home, more work, extra worries, two weeks of caring for crabby children who can't enjoy the fun--it kinda takes the "merry" out of "Christmas." But it doesn't have to--here are at-home family fun activities that sick kids can enjoy, too. Here are ways sick kids can be involved in holiday preparation from their sick bed. These ideas are so much fun your sick kids might not want to get well! Holiday parenting: At-home family fun for sick kids on Christmas vacation | Examiner.com
Holiday gift exchanges: Christmas gift exchange planning, gift swap party games | Examiner.com
Do you hate holiday gift exchanges among people you don't know? The Christmas work party and extended relatives ones are the worst. What do you get someone you don't know? So some of these holiday parties are pretty lame, but you can plan festive holiday gift exchanges with these easy tips and fun Christmas gift swap party games.Holiday gift exchanges: Christmas gift exchange planning, gift swap party games | Examiner.comChristmas presents for toy drive, Giving Tree, Toys for Tots, OCC shoebox gifts
Looking for great places to donate Christmas presents? Many organizations host a toy drive to collect presents for children. Churches put up a Christmas Giving Tree and collect gift donations. Most grocery stores and restaurants have a box for gifts to the Marines' Toys for Tots program. Samaritans Purse hosts Operation Christmas Child, a charitable giving event that ships shoebox gifts to domestic and foreign missions. So now you know where to give. But how about what to give? If you're wondering about Christmas presents for a toy drive, Giving Tree, Toys for Tots or Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts, here's a list to help. Christmas presents for toy drive, Giving Tree, Toys for Tots, OCC shoebox gifts | Examiner.comFree printable Advent calendars for Christmas countdown
Advent is the Catholic Christian season leading up to Christmas. For four weeks, prior to Christmas, Catholics practice Advent values prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Each week focuses on hope, expectation and joy. Here are free printable advent calendars for kids to make, to guide advent to Christmas devotions.Free printable Advent calendars for Christmas countdown | Examiner.comFree printable Christmas nativity scenes, Advent manger sets for Bible holiday | Examiner.com
Are you looking for religious Christmas crafts for little ones? You'll want these free printable nativity scenes. Children can color Bible characters and assemble manger sets. Here's a free printable manger scene with cut and paste coloring pages to put on paper towel tubes. Catholic Icing has eight coloring pages that you can click and print directly from her blog. Each page features Mary and Joseph, donkey, angel, wisemen, shepherds, Baby Jesus, camels. Download the set from the website.Free printable Christmas nativity scenes, Advent manger sets for Bible holiday | Examiner.comFree printable Christmas nativity scenes, Advent manger sets for Bible holiday
Are you looking for religious Christmas crafts for little ones? You'll want these free printable nativity scenes. Children can color Bible characters and assemble manger sets. Here's a free printable manger scene with cut and paste coloring pages to put on paper towel tubes. Catholic Icing has eight coloring pages that you can click and print directly from her blog. Each page features Mary and Joseph, donkey, angel, wisemen, shepherds, Baby Jesus, camels. Download the set from the website.Free printable Christmas nativity scenes, Advent manger sets for Bible holidayFree printable gingerbread house patterns, Christmas craft stencils
Making holiday gingerbread houses is a favorite family traditions. Not being very artistic, I'd cheat and get the gingerbread house kit. But I've found a better way: free printable gingerbread house patterns, recipes and templates. People approach gingerbread house making in two ways. The first is to painstakingly design a work of art--not to be eaten, let alone touched. Then there's our youngest son's method: slap together a ramshackle gingerbread shed, lather in two inches of frosting, cover every inch in candy and devour immediately. Whichever school you subscribe to, you'll want these free printable gingerbread recipes, templates and patterns. Free printable gingerbread house patterns, Christmas craft stencils Free printable Catholic Advent calendars for a Christian Bible Christmas
The Catholic Christian season of Advent begins November 30, 2014 and goes for four weeks till Christmas. Many families follow Advent calendars. If they're getting all season long, where's the magic of Christmas morning? Advent is about preparing for the coming of Christ with acts of charity. Here are Free printable Catholic Advent calendars for a Christian Bible ChristmasTop Christmas toys for 2014 Black Friday shopping and best U.S. prices
Toy Retailers Association announced its 2014 Dream Toys List on November 5. Each holiday, the UK/Ireland toy vendor group rates the 12 best children's toys. Just in time for your Black Friday Christmas shopping, here's what toys will top every kid's wishlist to Santa. The list includes best U.S. pricing so parents can shop smart and put those toys under the tree! Top Christmas toys for 2014 Black Friday shopping and best U.S. prices
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