product review

Our Generation Doll

It’s Christmas time and I am so excited.  I am excited because this year I am giving my granddaughter  the

OUR GENERATION dolls

 

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Our Generation doll, Sadie, will be waiting,all wrapped up under the tree.

Sadie will be waiting for  little Sophie to  open up her box so Our Generation doll, Sadie, can be a part of Sophie’s very own doll collection.

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No matter who dress up like whom, my granddaughter  is going to love Sadie

What a match!

Our Generation dolls is a little girls dream come true.

Every Our Generation doll or accessory you buy gives 10 cents to Free The Children’s Power of a Girl initiative to help girls all over the world get the education they need.

This season get an Our Generation Doll for your little girl and know that you will be giving to all girls.

http://www.ogdolls.com/dolls

product review

ECO SWIM Cover-Up

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One thing I know for sure is that I over packed for the Disney Dream Cruise I went on with my niece Sandra ,my daughter Vera and her family.  Honestly, I spent most days by the pool with my grandchildren. When I got a chance I would go visit Sandra on the peaceful upper deck.

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All I needed was my bathing suit and my ECO SWIM Cover-up.   Not only did I wear it on the ship, but I wore it when we visited Disneys’ Castaway Cay Island for the day.

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Comfortable, variety of style and colors with plenty  of cover and it dries in no time.  My grandchildren love to splash me, they think it’s funny 🙂

For great swimwear and cover-ups visit: http://www.ecoswim.com/

recipe

Snowball Cookies

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I bought a children cookbook from my daughter Veras’ school one year and found this wonderful Christmas Cookie recipe “Snowball Cookies”.  Easy enough for a child to help make (with adult supervision).  Here is a photo of Vera rolling the cooled, baked cookies in the powdered sugar.   You can see she also liked a big snowball. This might happen after you make a few batches on the same day.  🙂  This easy recipe  became a every Christmastime  cookie we made  together, shared and enjoy.   She now makes these with her children. Hope you make these with the children in your life.  Make a mess and keep, share and give  a batch  of happiness.

Heat oven to 325°F.

2 Cups all purpose flour
2 Cups finely chopped walnuts or pecans
1/2 Cup sugar
1 Cup Butter  (room temp)
1 tp vanilla
Box of powdered sugar (to decorate)
Red/Green crystals (optional)
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Cream 1/2 cup sugar and butter in a large bowl.
Add flour  and vanilla.
Beat at low speed, scraping bowl occasionally, until well mixed.
Stir in walnuts
Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
Place 1 inch apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 10-15 minutes or until very lightly browned  (don’t over bake)
Cool 5-10 minutes; roll in powdered sugar while still warm and again when cool.
Sprinkle with colored crystals

 

 

Family

A Rose is a Rosie

  Birthdays are always a reason to celebrate.  A time for families  and friends to come together and wish the birthday person all good wishes and give thanks that they entered your life by being born to this world.

So when it came to celebrating Rosie’s’ 89th birthday, with my dearest and closets friends (cousins), it became apparent to me that my generation was not the only generation that was wearing the face of time.

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  Ok, I know what you are thinking, she is not really 89.

Oh, Yeah!

 Every Thanksgiving weekend Rosie turns a year older and this year she clocked 89.

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These are Rosie’s closets friends, Mary, Manny’s mom, and Nina, my mom.

All three crossed over the ocean blue to start a new life in America. They left their small island, with their husbands, and children in hand, to make a life in the wide open spaces of America.

 All three gave their children the opportunity to grew up in a land they knew little about, yet they  knew their children would do better.

 My generation, tend to forget what they gave up and what formed out of their tenacity.  Alone with just each other they created a life, full of laughter, sometimes tears, complete with the one two  punches that life can give you.

I tell you these three ladies could wrap the Golden Girls around their tiny fingers about 10 times over.

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Now we three, the second generation here, do owe a lot to Rosie and her  traveling companions.  I hope that we will have that get up a go attitude and look so good at the age of 89.

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So Happy Birthday Rosie!!

From the second generation!!!