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I love family traditions. Because my kids are still young and the first years of their lives were spent with me in a a whirlwind of emotions, hormones, babies, and moves, we are still establishing many of our traditions.


I love the holidays. I love Thanksgiving and Christmas and all of the wonderful family traditions they bring with them.

November brings a month of thankfulness which we celebrate with a Thanksgiving Tree.





Every November we work on memorizing (or reviewing depending on which child you are!) Psalm 100. Yes, complete with motions and a song.

Another favorite November tradition is the shoebox packing party for Operation Christmas Child at our church.

We also love the shopping and packing of our own boxes for OCC, and participating in our church school's Shoebox Chapel.







Time with family,  turkey celebrations, Thanksgiving treats like turkey Oreo lollipops, and turkey cupcakes, a time of giving, and a time to focus on how very blessed we are and how we can serve God and others. And I think we even got into the 70's this week! I love November!

And of course, November means December traditions are just around the corner!

November Traditions

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I hope and pray everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had a great week spending time as a family, resting, cooking, baking, and a lot of playing! We did very little school, only doing math and reading on Monday and Tuesday. We needed the break!

We cooked and baked a ton! The girls were much more willing helpers. C was much more interested in the Wii.

I am not sure what made me so adventurous in the kitchen this holiday season, turkey cupcakes last week and this week we made turkey chocolate dipped Oreo lollipops. I think after these I am ready to go back to store bought treats! ;)


R helped C ride a 2 wheeler for the first time!

Did a good bit of Black Friday shopping that may have involved preteens and cheerleading stunts at Toys R us to get hidden items on the top shelf!

Bought and decorated a new Christmas tree. We finally upgraded from our seminary apartment tree we have had forever! 

It was so great to be a regular family without school for a few days. I enjoyed my kids, and am so grateful for the blessing they are!

Now we are ready to gear up for Christmas with our Christmas bucket list! Love being intentional about spending time enjoying these precious treasures!

Thanksgiving Week 2012

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For Thanksgiving day the kids and I made chocolate dipped Oreo Lollipop turkeys.

Ingredients:
(pictures shown are a double batch)

  • 1 bag of Double Stuff Oreos
  • 1 bag of chocolate chips (we used Andes mint chocolate chips)
  • 1 bag of candy corn
  • white chocolate chips
  • licorice cut into small pieces (for the wattle)
  • lollipop sticks


Step 1: Open the Oreos, dip the sticks in melted chocolate, place the stick in the cream of one side of the Oreo, close up the Oreo, and chill in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes.



Step 2: dip the Oreo lollipops in the melted chocolate (I used Andes mint chocolate chips), set out 4 candy corns point side down on wax paper and lay the dipped lollipop on the candy corn (I did lose a few oreos in the chocolate, I just used a spoon to scoop it out. The kids enjoyed eating the bowl of casualties!) 

Step 3: dip a candy corn in the melted chocolate and set it on the dipped Oreo. 

Step 4: While holding the candy corn beak in place, place the cut licorice wattle next to the candy corn using it to help the candy corn stay upright. 

Step 5: dip the bottom of the white chocolate chip in the melted chocolate and place the eyes. (I actually did this step later and used chocolate frosting to stick the eyes, but only because I couldn't find my white chocolate chips while I had melted chocolate!) 

Step 6: chill in the refrigerator until you are ready to eat them! 
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I am one of those people that see fun turkey cupcakes on Pinterest and think how fun! but never actually make them. I am an ideas person, not the see to completion person! However, I am trying to be the mom I want to be ;) and these looked so fun, I sucked it up embraced the day and made them for our homeschool Thanksgiving Party. Trust me, if it is easy enough for me to do it, anyone can! Also, you can see mine are far from perfect (remember I have no artistic ability whatsoever) but even not perfect they looked fun!



We made some adjustments to the original blog. Here is what we did:

  • We made yellow cake cupcakes according to the package.


  • After they cooled, I frosted them with chocolate frosting.


  • I put chocolate frosting in a Ziplock bag, cut a hole in the corner and made the head and base for tail.


  • Candy Corn for the nose and feathers, white chocolate chips with a dot of chocolate frosting for the eyes.


  • Voila! Fun Turkey cupcakes!

Thanksgiving Turkey Cupcakes

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