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FREE Holiday eBooks for Kindle

November 13, 2013 By: amyswanderingcomment

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It’s time for our weekly holiday ebook roundup!

These ebooks were free at the time of posting but that could change at any moment.
As always, check before you click!

Thanksgiving On a Dime

Thanksgiving recipes: Sharing Blessing of the Harvest

Homemade Christmas

Homemade Christmas Gifts: 14 Gift Ideas & DIY Home Decor

Gingerbread Houses

The Best Diabetic Holiday Cookbook

Gluten-Free Christmas & Thanksgiving Menu Ideas

Thanksgiving Turkey: 25 Stories for Children (& Coloring Book)

Thanksgiving Dinner: Being Thankful – Happy Children’s Series

Jingle All the Way

A Christmas Carol

In the Yule-log Glow 3: Christmas Poems from ’round the World

Christmas Stories and Legends

Don’t own a Kindle? You can read Kindle ebooks on your PC.

My affiliate links were used in this post. There is no cost to you to download the free ebooks. I appreciate any shopping you might do while visiting Amazon!

Simple Christmas Countdown Giveaway

November 1, 2013 By: amyswanderingcomment

{This post contains my affiliate link.}

My good friend Jill of The Sassy Slow Cooker and Blessed Beyond a Doubt has a brand new Simple Christmas Countdown Planner!

She created her planner years ago as a tool to avoid the craziness of an over-planned, stressed-out Christmas season. I’ve seen glimpses of it over the years and am thrilled that she has now made it available to everyone.

One of the things I love about Jill is that she is super organized but keeps it uncomplicated, so organizationally-challenged people like me can easily follow along. Simple Christmas Countdown comes with all of the pages, dividers, and covers that you will need for TWO years! This means you can navigate a peaceful Christmas season and then immediately start on next year’s plans. Don’t we all love a fresh start in January?

The pages you will find in this 2-year Christmas Countdown Planner:

2013-2014 Calendar Pages for the months of November and December
Notebook Cover, Dividers, and Spine Covers
Budget Planner
Inventory List
Homemade Gift List
Stocking Stuffer List
Advent and Tradition Ideas
Christmas Card List
Master Gift List
Individual Gift List
Cleaning List
Menu Plan
Recipe Section

Jill also adds in her tips for using each of the pages, and shows you how to keep the planning going all year long instead of waiting until the last minute.

The Simple Christmas Countdown Planner is only $3.99. Such a small price to pay to be able to focus on what really matters this Christmas!

I get to give away TWO planners – ONE for you and ONE for a friend!!

Giveaway ends Thursday, November 7th

I received a free planner to review for this post. All opinions are my own – I really do like it! My affiliate link is included. Thank you for purchasing through my site!

Celebrating Christmas in July

July 23, 2013 By: amyswanderingcomment

celebrating christmas in july

My mom’s birthday is on July 25th, so last year we threw her a Christmas in July party. It was so much fun!! My gears started turning as I cooked up a plan for this year…

We could use July 25th to try out some of the fun projects & recipes that we never find time for during December!!

I don’t know about yours, but my family likes to stick very closely to traditions. And since no one likes a stressed-out mommy, I try to limit how many new activities I add each year.

KISS – Keep it Sweet & Simple, that’s my motto.

Christmas in July is the perfect time to try out some new ideas.

We are going to start our day with this yummy Cinnamon Baked French Toast that has been calling to me from my Pinterest Christmas Board.

{Note to self: set Pandora to a Christmas station!}

I am going to give each kid a Christmas Wish List so they can get a head start.

My kiddos like to toss in their 2 cents, so I created a Christmas to Remember survey for them to fill out so we can plan our holiday season.

–>Download a Christmas to Remember<–

After an appetizer dinner of sausage balls and fried mozzerella sticks, we will watch a movie and have a snowflake cutting party. The snowflakes will be carefully bagged up and put away to make a gorgeous blizzard garland. I have had it bookmarked for YEARS, and we have a snowflake party every December, but never manage to find time to put it all together. I’m thinking this might be the year we finally get it up. 😉

There are so many things you could do for Christmas in July:

get started on some handmade gifts
put together a Christmas Planning Binder
make Christmas cards
plan you Christmas card picture
get an early start on some crafts
play silly games

You can also take some time to think about getting off the Crazy Christmas wagon. Christmas is a season of joy and peace. A time to celebrate a Savior.

Need some inspiration?

Do you do any kind of Christmas in July activities?

Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus

December 18, 2012 By: amyswandering1 Comment

sg baby

Come, Thou long expected Jesus
Born to set Thy people free;
From our fears and sins release us,
Let us find our rest in Thee.
Israel’s Strength and Consolation,
Hope of all the earth Thou art;
Dear Desire of every nation,
Joy of every longing heart.

Born Thy people to deliver,
Born a child and yet a King,
Born to reign in us forever,
Now Thy gracious kingdom bring.
By Thine own eternal Spirit
Rule in all our hearts alone;
By Thine all sufficient merit,
Raise us to Thy glorious throne.
~ Charles Wesley