I love holiday lights! One of my favorite things to do is jump in the car with the hubby on any random night and drive around town admiring neighborhood displays. I look out my living room window and see a herd of glowing vintage Santas, which always brings a smile to my face. Travel outside […]
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POINSETTIA CHAMPAGNE COCKTAIL RECIPE Ingredients cranberry juice cocktail orange liquor champagne (or sparkling wine) cranberries for garnish Instructions Fill a champagne flute with an inch of cranberry juice cocktail, a splash of orange liquor and fill with champagne or a brut sparkling wine. Stir and then add a few cranberries or a thin half orange
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YULE LOG RECIPE Ingredients 1 cup good hot chocolate 1 shot peppermint schnapps Whipped cream,if desired 1 candy cane Instructions Add schnapps to a mug of hot chocolate, put candy cane in and stir. Top with whipped cream and enjoy!
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The end of the Beartown trilogy revisits the interconnectedness between two rival hockey towns (towns not teams). All three books clearly underscore the importance of the hockey team and it’s larger impact on life. The Winners takes readers on a wild ride of emotions as we follow the towns in the aftermath of a “storm
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What’s better than a book you can’t put down! Sycamore is about the discovery of a body that may belong to a teenage girl who has disappeared, and a town that is pulled together and apart by the secrets that surround the disappearance. You can find the book on Amazon here: Sycamore: A Novel by
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Just about a 100 miles north of Phoenix, you will find the mile high city of Prescott, Arizona. We have called Prescott home since 2016, and this beautiful city of less than 50,000 residents has a landscape totally contrary to what you envision when you think about Arizona. The city is surrounded in every direction
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Inspired by the Christkindlmarket in Chicago, this potato pancake recipe was given to me by a dear friend’s father. Although this recipe is procured from the area known as the Czech Republic, its origin dates back to the Latke. These European potato pleasures evoke the same sense of flavor and aroma as the pancakes from
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