Totally Addictive Cinnamon Roasted Pecans

Posted by on Dec 11, 2009 in Best of MeckMom, Popular Posts: Recipes | 8 comments Don’t you just love it when you find a recipe that everyone begs you for?  I’ve made these addictive pecans for neighborhood gifts, teacher presents, and holiday parties and I always get requests for the recipe.  I love to make them because they’re incredibly easy, they make my house smell fantastic, and I can make them weeks before I’ll need them.  I found the original...
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Warm Up Your Neighborhood with a Christmas Pass-along Plate Tradition

Posted by on Dec 10, 2009 in Best of MeckMom, Popular Posts: Free Printables | 2 comments Several years ago I came across a plastic Christmas plate that encouraged a sweet tradition.  Much like the ‘Boo Ghost’  idea you may have seen around Halloween, this plate was designed to be filled with goodies and then passed around the neighborhood in the weeks leading up to Christmas. The original plate is long gone but the idea has stuck with me over the years.  Now that...
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Holiday How To: Simplifying the Season’s Must Do Tasks – part 3

Posted by on Dec 3, 2009 in Popular Posts: Holiday | 0 comments Check it out – two posts in one day.  I almost feel like a real blogger.  Here’s the final piece to my Holiday How To blog series.  You can see the other posts by clicking here (part 1, part 2) Speed Up the Small Stuff Look in anyone’s gift wrap supply and you’ll probably find dozens of adhesive-backed bows.  Why?  Because it’s faster to adorn a package with one...
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Holiday How To: Simplifying the Season’s Must Do Tasks – part 2

Posted by on Dec 3, 2009 in Popular Posts: Holiday | 0 comments I’m so sorry for the delay, everyone.  We travelled to Utah for the holiday and I neglected to take my article materials with me.  Now that we’re back home, I can finally finish the blog series I began in my last post.  I’ll try to post parts 2 and 3 for you today. Go Digital This is a tough one for a lot of us.  We associate the holidays with a certain nostalgia and...
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