Weekend Recap: Frosted Sugar Cookie Recipe and Christmas festivities have begun!

I've very aware that after last Tuesday's I love 80's Christmas music post, I fell off the face of the earth and was nowhere to be seen or heard.  Unless you were at Target, then...you saw me there.  Or Younkers.  Or Casey's.  Yes, I was running around buying more Christmas gifts, gift cards, and last minute gifts ...

Weekend Recap: Shopping friends. Forever friends.

This past weekend, I enjoyed one of my very favorite weekends of the year.  You see, every November (or sometimes, it has been December), seven of my dearest friends and I go on our "Annual Chicago Shopping Weekend". Eighteen years ago, most of us were all working and teaching in the same elementary building.  We played ...