Keeping sanity during Christmas break..

What do you do while life is different between Christmas and New Years?
This year we started making bread... My 11 year old loves to cook and bake,
so I decided to get out the bread recipe that I use to make years ago.  The kids
were saying yuck, who puts cottage cheese and eggs in bread...  I told them that

there older siblings use to fight over this bread... It never lasted long.  Well,
sure enough... I put the bread in the oven... took it out of the oven ... and then
I had somewhere to go.  When I got home a quarter of a loaf was left out of 2 loaves.

We made it today and again the same thing happened.  If I don't get up early tomorrow,
I won't get any of this bread either.

Next time I think we will make cinnamon raisin bread.

What did you do this week to have fun with the kids?

                                                             True a 10 starter set today

Favorite thing to do in winter.

In winter our family loves to have tea parties... We make a treat and have it with tea mid afternoon.

When the weather is above zero we like to play outside... sledding and making tunnels and snowmen.

I like to bring out my knitting... the knitting is fun and it, also, keeps me warm...

What is your favorite thing to do in the winter... by yourself and with family.

Blessed Christmas to you all.

Yummy Christmas Favorites

Mo'Betta has a wonderful old fudge recipe

Mother of Pearl has peanut butter fudge

Taste of Home has nutty carmel clusters.

Allrecipes. com had the oatmeal date bars that my mom use to make.

Share links to your favorites in the comment section.

Last years virtual cookie exchange... go here for wonderful recipes

Hope you are having fun with your young ones...

5 Questions, if you care to answer them send me your link.

1.  What will your Christmas dinner consist of? We will have ham and turkey, white potatoes and sweet,
green bean casserole and Christmas cookies.


2.  Do you watch commercials or flip through the channels? We don't watch tv, but we do watch movies on dvd or video. 

3.  How long will you leave your Christmas decorations up? We put up the tree the week before Christmas and take it down after the feast of the 3 kings.

4.  What movie makes you cry every time you watch it?  Where the Red Fern Grows

5.  Do you have a Facebook? Yes,  Debbie's Aloe based skincare

8 Money Myths that Mess Up Your Life

Mary Hunt has many wonderful ideas on saving money... Today she has some ways to debunk your Money myths..

Jess, has a cute cartoon on her blog  Joy just because.

Now off to cleaning .... Cobwebs everywhere...

Enjoying life with friends..

Quotes

“Well done is better than well said.” 
–Benjamin Franklin

"When you are grateful
fear disappears and
abundance appears."
- Jim Rohn

Cookie Exchange

Happy Last week of Advent

What are you going to do this last week before Christmas?
I am going to put up my tree, and bake cookies.

We are going to have fun as a family.

Do you send out cards...?

I have found a wonderful way to send out cards and not leave my house. If you are interested,
let me know. You will love the fact that you can fix up the card to send it exactly the way you want.

You can put in pictures, your own text... 

5 tips to Improve your Dry Skin

What is the first thing people notice when  they look at you? Your skin of course.
IF you want you skin to improve you need to wash it daily.

1.  The first thing you want to do is to ex foliate your skin... Why you say... you wash
our face everyday.  Sometimes twice a day... Well, ex foliating your skin takes off the
dead skin cells, leaving your  vibrant glowing skin for all to see.  Your body sloughs  off
 dead skin cells ever 2 days to a week, depending on how old you are.  These skin cells
are what makes your skin drab.

2. Make sure that you use lots of aloe based skin care and lotions  do to the damage the do
to the damage the sun does to your skin.  Aloe keeps the skins moisture alive,  and  healing
 your skin in the process. While the sun is good for you, you do not want your skin to burn.

3. Take care of  your lips during the winter.  Aloe and vitamin E are good for lips in healing
with the dry heat in the house and the cold dry air outside.

4.  A paradigm shift that many people should make is not showering everyday.  Showering
everyday for many people that are not  physically dirty or sweaty will be drying out your skin.
For many people, that leads to eczema and and other skin problems.  If you have dry skin,
use body lotions that are aloe based.  The aloe will pull moisture down into your skin to help
heal and moisturize your skin.

5.  Using products with perfumes  and dyes in them, irritate many peoples skin. Sticking
to aloe based products will heal the skin..

So in review.
1. Exfoliate
2. Moisturize  with aloe when you are going to be in the sun
3. Use aloe and vitamin E on your lips
4. Do not shower daily unless physically dirty or sweaty.
5. Stay away from perfumes and dyes.

Hope this help revive and liven up your skin for the winter.  Happy winter.

7 day starter set

Boy, It is cold outside.. What to do?

What do you do when it is cold outside?  I am not talking about 40F or 20F  I am talking 0F
and wind blowing...   Well here today  the public school doesn 't have school so my high schooler
is at home with the homeschooled kids.

I told them that they have to play games that use math, religion and history skills in them.
This morning they are playing the card game Nickels, which is basically a sequencing game.
They also, came up with the point is that they are not to cheat or fight for Religion.  So far,
it is working.  Later, they will be making homemade pizza for home ec and then 2 of the kids
will be cleaning a house with me.  I told them, if I have to do anything over or they fight, they
will not get the pay we agreed upon. My other child will stay home with the 7 year old and
play games and read books.  It is to cold for them to be outside when I am not home.
They could be frozen before is get home if something should happen.

Thank goodness we have L'Bri  hand and body cream and body butter to keep our skin from
drying out and the aloe as the first ingredients is so healing.

So what do you do when it is to cold to step outside unless you have to?  Let me know and I
will send you a sample hand and body lotion.  Take care, keep warm.

For your purse and counter in the kitchen or bathroom

Prayers for your Christmas season.

This morning was enjoyed with L'Bri skincare and body care products. They feel wonderful with the healing first ingredient of aloe in every product.

Worked on Christmas cards and my youngest made Christmas presents for everyone.

He made Christmas ornaments out of clay.  This year he seems to like working with clay.

They turned out very nice. Send out cards is making other peoples lives happier. I really like them.

This afternoon we made cookies and brownies. When I made the brownies, I put Reese's Peanut

butter cups in them. They are yummy..! The butterscotch oatmeal cookies are the first cookies my son

made almost my himself.  He (7 years old) liked the fact that he had strong muscles to stir the batter.

He made very uniform cookies.  I still cannot to this day because I am to impatient to get finished.

Tonight we watched it snow and watched a civil war movie.  It seems we need to watch

war movies when only the boys are at home. We are  suppose to have ice and blowing snow

tomorrow. I hope the rest of you don't have to be part of that.  If you can, please pray for

my husband, as he has to get my daughters from camp tomorrow...

Hope that you holiday trimmings are coming together the way you like them.  Have a good

Sunday.

What happened to you today or yesterday?

Something great is going to happen today...
I can't wait to see what it is!

Let me know what wonderful thing happened to you today.

Try this experiment.

Aloe brings moisture to the skin.

Drop water droplets on to the back of your hand.  Do you see the water just siting there.

Now put aloe on the back of your hand.  Notice how the water seeps into your skin.

L'Bri skincare products with aloe help to moisturize skin in this way.  Aloe draws water into your skin and 

moisturizes your skin.  Looking for for moisture 

ALOE is the way to go.

L'Bri Intense Body Butter w/ aloe

Blessed 2nd week of Advent to you all.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. — Thomas Aquinas


My 7 year old and I made and Advent wreath yesterday.  We made it with the
traced hands of the people that were home.. and then taped it to the wall.

He was so happy when we were finished.

Some very pretty Christmas tree crafts

Blessing Over Flowing Blog  has Links to some very pretty Christmas tree crafts.

Tell her that Debbie's Aloe Based Skincare sent you.
Hope you have fun making some of these trees.

Here is one of the items on her page.

We will be having some fun tonight. Hope you will too.

What is Aloe for?

Aloe Barbadensis Miller is a species of Aloe, native to northern Africa.Aloe is a member of the lily family.  It is a succulent plant growing 8- to 10 cm tall.  The leaves are thick and fleshy, green with serrated edges.

 Aloe can be used for  treating skin rashes, insect bites, herpes simplex, burns, acne, bedsores, ringworm and painful shingles.  It is also good for keeping the functioning of bowels smooth.


 Aloe works to take down swelling in the eyes and for hemorrhoids.


 Aloe works for swelling of muscles and body aches.  You can use aloe after a long day of hard work.  


Aloe also works for you are working in harsh chemicals and cold weather.  Aloe heals every part of your 
body.

As you can see,  Aloe is good for every part of your body.  Give it a try. You will be happy you did.

Christmas sale...

Take care of your body with aloe...