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Welcome to Day 3 of my 12 days of Christmas Holida Welcome to Day 3 of my 12 days of Christmas Holiday book giveaway! 📚🎄❤️✨ To enter for a chance to win one of our favorite holiday books today, simply like this post and tell me - what’s on YOUR Christmas list this year? 🎁 If you don’t have anything specific this year - what’s the best gift you’ve had on your list recently!? I never know what to put on my own Christmas list so I LOVE hearing about what other people are wishing for - it gives me all kinds of awesome ideas! Can’t wait to hear what you guys come up with!! If you win our chosen book for day 3, I’ll send you a dm by tomorrow morning. And if you don’t win today, check back in on Monday for another chance. I’ll be choosing one winner each day for the next 9 days. // Red and Lulu by Matt Tavares. I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for this book since the first time I read it. This is the tale of a beautiful pair of cardinals, Red and Lulu, who live in a majestic spruce tree. Then one day, the unthinkable happens, and they are separated. This poignant and emotionally captivating story will be certain to tug on your heart-strings. The illustrations are stunning and tell an incredibly touching tale of perseverance and love. ❤️✨
Yay for day 2 of my 12 days of Christmas Holiday b Yay for day 2 of my 12 days of Christmas Holiday book giveaway! To enter for a chance to win today, like this post and tell me ✨something✨ about your tree in the comments below - when do you like to put it up? Do you prefer artificial or real? What about colored or white lights? Do you decorate with mismatched ornaments or mostly ones with a similar look or theme? What do you put on TOP of your tree? Tell me more! 🎄❤️ My own answer is in the comment section if you’re interested!! 😘😘 >> For a BONUS entry today (or even just for fun!) - Share a photo of YOUR Xmas tree in your stories today and make sure to tag me so I can see it (@yourstrulyelizab ) 🎄❤️📚 I can’t wait to hear about yours! If you win our chosen book for day 2, I’ll send you a dm by tomorrow morning. And if you don’t win today, check back in tomorrow for another chance. I’ll be choosing one winner each day for the next 10 days. // Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree by Robert E. Barry. First published in 1963, this heartwarming story has been a favorite in our Christmas collection for a few years now. The rhyming tale is quite engaging, and the sweet vintage-appeal of the illustrations is idyllic. A Christmas tree just a bit too tall gets trimmed and passed along to a whole community, from Mr. Willowby to Mistletoe Mouse. This book truly brings to life the adage of "one man's trash is another man's treasure."
Happy FIRST day of my 12 days of Christmas Holiday Happy FIRST day of my 12 days of Christmas Holiday book giveaway! To enter for a chance to win one of our favorite holiday books today, simply like this post and then drop your favorite holiday emojis in the comments! That’s it! ✨🎄❤️🎅📚⁠ ⁠ If you’ve won, I’ll send you a dm by tomorrow morning. And if you don’t win today, check back in tomorrow for how to enter. I’ll be choosing one winner each day for the next 11 days.⁠ // The Great Santa Stakeout by Betsy Bird. This is a very entertaining story that we added to our collection last year! It’s about a boy who considers himself Santa’s #1 Fan. He’s got everything a true fan would - from posters and memorabilia, to his very own Santa costume which he dons at every possible opportunity! What he wants most of all is an actual photo of himself WITH the Big Man!! So he creates a delightfully complex scheme to outwit Santa on Christmas Eve! But will he succeed? You’ll have to read to find out! ⁠ ** Giveaway is limited to participants only in the U.S.
It's back! It's back! 📚🎄❤️❄️🎁 I It's back! It's back! 📚🎄❤️❄️🎁 I couldn’t resist bringing back our 12 Days of Christmas Holiday Book Giveaway! It has been SO much fun the past two years and I can't wait to kick off December with this fun way for us all to connect and share some holiday spirit! ⁠ ⁠ Every year in December our family does a Christmas book advent. I wrap up all of our favorite holiday books individually in festive paper and each night our boys take turns choosing one to unwrap. Then we curl up in cozy pjs beside the twinkle of Christmas tree lights and read together.⁠ ⁠ There is something truly magical about reading together as a family - I believe it is a really special way for us to celebrate the spirit of the season. Our Christmas book advent has become one of our most beloved holiday traditions. ✨ This year, I want to bring some of that holiday spirit and magic to you and your family.⁠ ⁠ Each day for 12 days, as our boys unwrap their book, I will be giving away a copy of the same book to one lucky winner! 12 days, 12 different books, and one winner each day. It’s a busy time of year for all of us, so I’m making it super simple and FUN to participate. Just follow along on my posts for the next 12 days to find out how to get entered for that day.⁠ ⁠ There’s even a special bonus too! 🎄 If you share THIS post in your IG stories today (11/30) and tag me, you will automatically be entered to win a copy of our favorite book that we love to kick off the holiday season with (Pick a Pine Tree by Patricia Toht) ✨plus✨you’ll receive $25 to spend at your favorite local bookstore. 📚✨🎄 Tag a friend below (someone you think might be interested in this giveaway!) and you’ll get one additional entry per tag! If you've participated with us before you are totally welcome to join the fun again (even if you were a winner last year!). Make sure to tell your friends about it too!⁠ I’m so excited about this giveaway and I hope you will be too! Happy Holidays everyone! ❤️⁠ ⁠ ** Giveaway is limited to participants only in the US.
During the holidays I feel like it is so easy to g During the holidays I feel like it is so easy to get so caught up in the things that don’t really support the true meaning of Christmas, despite our best intentions. Choosing intentional things that we can do for others during this special season is a great way to inspire a generous and compassionate spirit within our family. And the idea of teaching my children that they have the ability to bring joy and love to others through even the simplest acts of kindness is so important to me. Who knows how far an act of kindness can reach or how much of an impact it can have in the world?! >> 25 Family-Friendly Acts of Christmas Kindness on the blog today! Link in bio. 🎄 We start our Kindness Advent on Friday and I can hardly wait! ❤️
Today Paul and I were reminiscing the first Christ Today Paul and I were reminiscing the first Christmas we were married when we went and picked out our tree on a beautifully snowy day in Chicago. I love this tradition of choosing a tree together and I hope our kids will have fond memories of us doing this together through the years! Video from 🎄 Ide Christmas Tree Farm, December 2013 (featuring Bay, our loyal Vizsla friend)
Happy Turkey Day from my favorite little turkeys a Happy Turkey Day from my favorite little turkeys and me! ❤️🦃✨🤪
The thing I’m most grateful for in my life? LOVE The thing I’m most grateful for in my life? LOVE. In all the ways - big and small, simple and complicated, near and far, fierce and tender, consistent and fleeting, brave and vulnerable. It is everything. So don’t be afraid to tell someone, anyone, everyone! I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. (ps. If you need a little extra love right now, drop a ❤️ in the comments or DM me and I will remind you how truly loved you are. And if you have a little extra love to give, spread that shit like a glitter bomb bc the world really needs it).
Starting to feel VERY elfy around here despite the Starting to feel VERY elfy around here despite the fact that we have only TWO actual tiny pieces of Xmas decor out in the house (😂😂 Paul said the house “needs a break” after Halloween!). Don’t worry - Niko and I are determined to deck these halls this upcoming week! And Noah has started wearing a Santa hat around just for the heck of it which is pretty cute too! I’ve been making plans for alllll the fun we’ve got in store in the next few weeks and it has me feeling excited and grateful. I’ve also had Charlie Brown’s Christmas Album playing in repeat in the background with my favorite spiked cider candles burning in every room! Are you an early Xmas decorator/joy-seeker/twinkle-light-lover too? Or do you find the most peace in basking in the goodness of one holiday at a time? Or are you celebrating some other ways? Absolutely NO JUDGEMENTS here! I’m a huge do-what-makes-your-heart-happy advocate!! I’m ready to lean alllll the way in to this season savoring though - so if that’s not your jam haha, don’t worry we can reconnect in the new year! And if it IS your jam - don your sparkle pants bc we are about to bring it! ✨🎄❤️🎅
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