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New Year’s Eve/ NYE Traditions Around the World

I absolutely LOVE New Year’s Eve! It’s the perfect time to round out the year & celebrate everything that has happened throughout the year! Celebrate triumphs and say goodbye to the misfortunes. New Year’s Eve is all about having fun and celebrating! Do you ever wonder how people from around the world celebrate for the New Year?! I know I certainly do! Today I will share with you a few traditions for New Year’s Eve from around the world. Some you may not have ever heard of and may find pretty interesting!

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Star Wars Ultimate Gift Guide and Free Printable Gift Tags

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Calling all Star Wars fans!

Take a look at our Star Wars Ultimate Gift Guide and Free Printable Gift Tags. It is packed full of great gift ideas for all those Star Wars fanatics in your life. If you have a hard time choosing just one, make a Star Wars gift basket and pack it full of goodies. You can even use this Star Wars Storage Bin as the basket. After you have crammed it full, wrap it with clear cellophane so all of the gifts are visible even before they unwrap the gift.

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Eat Drink Celebrate Repeat This Holiday Season with Babble Boxx #EDCRepeatBboxx

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Eat Drink Celebrate Repeat This Holiday Season with Babble Boxx #EDCRepeatBboxx

Every Holiday season I say that I will be fully prepared for the next, no more last minute loss of ideas. Every year I am running around last minute looking for last minute Hostess gifts. Let’s not forget that one thing we are missing but don’t know what it is yet. That’s me in a nutshell. This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx.com and as a result I received the cutest package for review. I hope you enjoy reading Eat Drink Celebrate Repeat This Holiday Season with Babble Boxx #EDCRepeatBboxx

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The Perfect Holiday Gift Ideas for Every Disney Princess

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The Perfect Holiday Gift Ideas for Every Disney Princess

I’m happy this year our annual Holiday Gift Guide will be a little different. These changes came because we wanted to do some good. We were very selective with the items we added to our gift guide. The toys we accepted will be going to some very special and well deserving children. Children from our local Military Family support group. These children, as well as my own, have spent Christmases without a Parent due to being Deployed during the Holidays. Needless to say, we set the bar extremely high with what we wanted to recommend and gift to these children. I was besides myself when Jakks Pacific toys offered to send us items for The Perfect Holiday Gift Ideas for Every Disney Princess.

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Visiting Santa- It’s Never Too Late for a Great Tradition!

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Visiting Santa- It’s Never Too Late for a Great Tradition!

There weren’t many traditions around Christmas time while I was growing up, we had Christmas Eve tamales and woke up on Christmas morning with excitement. I always dreamed of having so many traditions and celebrations once I had children of my own, then reality hit. My Husband was deployed more often than not. If he wasn’t on a deployment far away, he was on a work-up trip preparing for deployments and that meant he was gone for weeks at a time. His Military career never gave us an opportunity to settle down and have some set traditions, so we did things as we could. Having premature babies with heart monitors also made for selective outings around people. These were all reasons why we were never able to see Santa every year. It took many years but we finally have one: Visiting Santa- It’s Never Too Late for a Great Tradition!

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Recipe: How to Make Cute Penguin Cupcakes

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Recipe: How to Make Cute Penguin Cupcakes

I love baking with the kids, it’s a perfect time to spend some time together and chat, laugh, and make a collective mess. There are 8 humans in our home, collective messes are our specialty! This Recipe: How to Make Cute Penguin Cupcakes requires almost no mess at all though, you can easily buy store bought cupcakes and only worry about making the penguins. No baking mess!

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Ultimate List of Holiday Cocktail & Mocktail Recipes

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Ultimate List of Holiday Cocktail & Mocktail Recipes

During the Holidays we host a lot of get-togethers for both Adults and teenagers alike. I love to make the kids fun drinks while the adults have some as well. I had a lot of fun putting this Ultimate List of Holiday Cocktail & Mocktail Recipes because it gave me so many ideas to choose from! I hope you can find one, two, ten recipes that you will love!

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Recipe: How to Make Pomegranate Agave Martini

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Recipe: How to Make Pomegranate Agave Martini

This Recipe: How to Make Pomegranate Agave Martini is one of the tastiest Martini recipes I have made. The rich taste of the Pomegranate and the agave together make it really stand out from the rest. Give it a try, it’s a perfect drink during any time of the year!

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The Spookiest Halloween Drink Recipes Ever!

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The Spookiest Halloween Drink Recipes Ever!

When I get a chance to make a “Blood & Brains Cranberry Martini” I take it and enjoy my drink with a smile! I love this season because it brings out all the creepy and spooky things that I love. The bonus is that people won’t stare too much, at least not for the wrong reasons lol! I asked high and low for links to find my favorite spooky themed drinks and the internet did not disappoint! Here are The Spookiest Halloween Drink Recipes Ever!

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How to Make Delicious Chocolate Creepy Trees

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How to Make Delicious Chocolate Creepy Trees

Here is another fun and super easy recipe I have made with the kids this week. I can not tell you enough how much I love to create EASY things! It gives me so much time to be able to enjoy the treats and watch a Halloween movie. We bake a lot during the cold months because not only does it seem that there is more time to spend indoors, but it also warms up the house! I hope you enjoy our recipe for learning How to Make Delicious Chocolate Creepy Trees.

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