~*To All of You*~

All the best to you, dear blogging friends, in 2009!
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I can't thank you enough for yours visits, sweet comments, and friendship over this past year. I appreciate it that you take the time out of your day to visit me and leave me comments...I apologize that I don't always get a chance to thank each and every one of you personally! I'll be back to my regular blogging after the first of the year.

With Much Love and Appreciation,
Kim

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Have you been Naughty Or Nice?

Well Santa is just about here boys and girls, I've been watching the Santa Tracker all day. So he has little bit longer to check that naughty or nice list and I have one question to all of you.....Have you been....NAUGHTY or NICE?Remember folks, Santa's watching!Okay for those of you that know me, we've already opened all our presents and now the children are eagerly waiting for morning because

Where's Santa?

With only hours to go before Santa arrives at your house I bet you are hearing all types of things from your kids.Mom, was I good this year? How does Santa know if I'm still behaving? Where's Santa now mom?Well for most of those you can have Santa email your kids a letter telling them they've behaved. Mine did and even told him what they wanted for Christmas and he's already sent back two letters

Window Mobile Smartphone

Did you know Windows has a phone out? I had no clue but I guess these days it shouldn't be a surprise that computer programming companies are coming out with them. I mean even Google has a phone now. So what's the new phone?Windows Mobile Smartphone, which you can currently purchase it through the link or one of three companies: VerizonWireless, AT&T or Sprint. The SmartPhone comes with:Version

~*Christmas Living Room/Dining Room*~

Good Saturday afternoon, dear blogging friends! I hope you all are doing well and are getting all of your last minute Christmas preparations done. We finished up Christmas shopping last night so now I'm going to have to get the gifts wrapped! We are having our family Christmas meal on Saturday, December 27th, so I actually have a few extra days to prepare.

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Today's tour starts in our living room...it's decorated pretty simply.

This little Santa is a favorite of mine...it was given to me last year by the woman I work for. He's from Maine.

Do you see that tiny little reindeer by the house? It's from my childhood...I treasure it because my dear Mom always put it out every year.

Our coffeetable.

We are now in the dining room.The hutch.

This little picture was a Christmas card we received this year...I thought it was so sweet...it's glittery.

My drysink...since I didn't have enough candles I used ornaments instead.

Our coat rack.

This is my computer hutch were all of my blogging happens.

The top of the computer hutch.

I found this apothocary jar at TJ Maxx for $19.99! I wasn't going to buy it...I walked by it many times trying to decide what to do...I'm so glad I decided to get it. I can't wait to change it for the seasons.

And, last but not least, our Christmas tree. The only place we had for it was in the dining room. I'm looking for a new tree topper...I want to find a star.

This is my all-time favorite and treasured ornament. My dear Mom gave it to me when I was a little girl and it was always on our tree. Now that my Mom is in Heaven it's even more special to me...

Thank you so much for stopping by for this tour of my home...I appreciate all of your visits and comments so much! This may be my last post until after Christmas and our Christmas dinner on the 27th. Take care my dear blogging friends and may we all keep the true meaning of Christmas in our hearts year round.

Love to you all, Kim

Christmas Movie Winners

11 & 91 were the winners in the Christmas (New & Old Classics) so would:Leah- At the moment, The Santa Clause. I just watched it again and it'scute.not.a.ship{at}gmail.comShelly- Elf cracks me up. And I love Joy to the World.Please email me at homemom3@gmail.com with your address so I can get these sent to you. Thank you.

~*A Few More Kitchen Pictures*~

I can't thank you all enough for the many visits and kind comments you left on my last post...I'm so overwhelmed!!!

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I inadvertantly left out a few pictures that I wanted to share for the Christmas Kitchen Tour...here they are:

This is my chalkboard...it's one of my all-time favorite things in the kitchen. I absolutely love having a chalkboard to write little notes and sayings (I know there are a lot of you sweet blogging friends that have shown neat ideas for chalkboards).

Here is the word PEACE spelled out with twigs that I glued together. I then used decorative ornament hooks to hang them on my curtain rod.
I know that some of you have tried Martha Stewart's glitter, well a few days ago I tried it for the first time and all I can say is WOW...I'm hooked...this stuff is amazing! If you haven't tried it before, I say RUN, don't walk, to your nearest Wal-mart to get some and give it a try. You'll be hooked like me!!!
I've been on a search for new cannisters...I was getting very frustrated because every set of cannisters I looked at wasn't what I was after. I finally found what I was looking for...at Walmart...they were right under my nose all along and I didn't know it!!! They were very reasonably priced and I think they have a nice old-fashioned feel, which is what I was after.
Ok, this wreath is not in my kitchen, but I wanted to show it to you anyways...I found it at JoAnn's last week for a few bucks...I added the ribbon...I bought two of them to hang on my laundry room windows. I showed my laundry room tour a few posts ago...Click Here if you'd like to see it.*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Melissa from Little Things In Life gave me a Kreativ Blogger award. Thank you, Melissa...I appreciate it! I always have a hard time deciding who to give these awards to so I'm going to dedicate it to all of you sweet, creative blogging friends in blogland!

Win Christmas Movies!

Homemom3 is giving away two different sets of movies, one is The Classic Christmas Movie Collection and the other is the NEW classic Christmas Movies. Now only two winners will get this so you have to get in on this now, oh and did I mention there is only one day to enter.Okay, in my local paper I read how some people are actually trying to BAN Rudolph songs and others don't want their kids

Random Integer GeneratorHere are your random numbers:3The LG Rumor in Blue it's perfect for me! I can email and it's blue! My daughter would love this finally she could have her own cell phone.# posted by Taylor Blue : 3:14 PM Congratulations! Please contact me by noon today or I'll have to draw another winner. homemom3@gmail.com (please folks leave email addresses)

Baby Einstein Celebrates 10 Years

A few weeks ago Momcentral teamed up with Baby Einstein and blessed this house with its very first Baby Einstein video, cd and book. I want to tell you I'm ashamed to state that and I wasn't blind to this company, in fact a very good friend in Sweden tells me all about these videos...I just hadn't bought them.The first thing that Little A grabbed was the book, "boook." He begain right away

Giveaways by Homemom3

Here are a few giveaways I'm having soon:- Lands' End Winter Surprise- Teens Talk- Christmas Movie ClassicsOther upcoming ones:- Smart ShopperBabylune:Christmas Movie Classics- Two collections for 3 winners each. What's your favorite holiday movie? Deadline December 18thVivabox- Coffee in a box, what would you want? Deadline December 18th.Scooterbees- what pic would you like on them? Deadline

Kajeet Winner...

Random Integer GeneratorHere are your random numbers:64Timestamp: 2008-12-16 00:17:22 UTC I like the Sanyo Katana II (Black)# posted by Becca : 11:08 PMBecca make sure to email me homemom3@gmail.com I will give this to the next winner if I don't hear back. :)For those that did not win:**If you didn't win the Kajeet, you can purchase them online now. For a limited time, you can take 15% off the

Winner of Busy Ball-tivity Center!

The winner of the Busy Ball-Tivity Center goes to....Hey, I just put this on our Christmas wish list earlier! LOL!We were talkingabout GloWorms this week. DH didn't know what they were! I remember having oneas a little girl. I vaguely remember a cartoon and all (he doesn't) The RosePetal stuff is darling.#posted by Storm, The Psychotic HousewifeEmail was already sent out. Congrats again. For

~*My Christmas Kitchen*~

Welcome to my kitchen at Christmas!

Now for an upclose look at some things... My new Christmas plates...from Giant Eagle.
My newest Gooseberry Patch cookbook.

Garland above my double ovens decorated with cookie cutters.

Thrift store urn with a glittery bulb.

My church sale table cloth.

Garland on my pantry area...

decorated with miniature porcelain...

and pine cone bulbs recently found at TJ Maxx...aren't they sweet?

My kitchen tree decorated with mini utensils. The tree skirt is from Dollar General several years ago...it's really cute (darn it...should have gotten a close up!). Thank you so much for stopping by! Be sure and visit Julia's Blog Hooked On Houses for more Christmas Tours! Please also go to Boo Mama's Christmas Tour of Homes

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I also want to thank those of you dear blogging friends who commented on my last post...I'm so glad you're not tired of my snow pictures. Glad you enjoyed them because our temperatures warmed up and now all of that pretty snow is GONE! And, I did make the picture of our home into a Christmas card.

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please let me know!