JEN SEVERN'S BLOG

Elf on the Shelf ideas are so FUN!  My nearly 10 year old is in charge of our elf this year and she is enjoying getting belly laughs from her brothers as each morning the find out what the elf was up to last night!   My daughter and I brain storm with pintrest and google and then she has free reign!  I am her assistant! We are having a bit of fun together and of course seeing the boys is fun too!  We even get dad to laugh!! Elf under attack! We all love the Christmas Blend! Our elf Twinkle is crazy for sugar!  Syrup out of a straw! Fishing for gold fish!  A favorite pass time!  Ha! Swinging from the Christmas lights! Writing notes in cereal!  He wrote the kids name then a heart and his, which is Twinkle!  

Need a free Holiday Party Printable a class party?  I do!  I signed up to bring water to my kids holiday parties.  My girlfriend, yes Amanda, suggested I make labels that say "Melted Snowman".  Too cute!  I just made them this morning and I thought you may like them for your holiday parties too!   Enjoy!  Just print, cut and tape to the water bottle!  Happy Holidays!

Enjoy these Thanksgiving FUN ideas! Leaf Turkey from TwoKidsCooking! Thankful Turkey from Little Family Fun . Wreath of Plenty from Parent Magazine . Beautiful Art by Red Letter Words. Martha Stewart Thanksgiving Crafts Simple!  Nice!

Print, frame and place on your entry table for a fun fall feel for friends when they walk into your home! Here are three of my favorites! Place in an 8x10 frame. By Ansti- Pants By The Graphics Fairy By The Creative Paige

This is the easiest recipe!  Just 3 ingredients and SO delicious!  I re-post it every year because it is DELICIOUS.  Click here PUMPKIN MUFFINS for the recipe! mmmmmmmm!

Shalel Lounge Shalel Lounge.  I can't wait to go back. Love REW.  This is the only picture I have of us:( I am looking pretty tired, true, I was!  With friends, it doesn't matter.  Just so thankful to be together! I just returned home from visiting a few of my dear friends on the east coast!  I started in a sweet little apartment just off the Hudson visiting my girl friend and her husband.  We went to an incredible Moroccan restaurant called Shalel Lounge.  It is a little romantic cave hidden in the Manhattan rock.  I was engaged in the most amazing story of miracle after miracle and the hesitant hope of a child.  Heart warming and I just can't help but get teary with gratitude.  Then we went home to be loved on by Ama their little big eyed pup who turns his head as if to say, "really"!  We racked out and in the morning her hubby and I talked shop. LOVE.  Rebecca treated...

My husband went to a men's retreat this weekend and this was one of the verses that was a highlight for him.  Men carry a ton of weight as the providers for our families.  I think it is more than we often even realize.  There are so many times in the Bible that the apostles ask for prayer for themselves.  We often read "pray for me...".  So today, I will ask you all to pray for me.  I am on the verge of making some pretty big decisions about jumping back into work.  As I consider it, will you pray this verse for me?  Also will you pray this verse for my husband.  I was reading the other day in 1 Corinthians, "these three remain, faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love."  Jeremiah 29:11 is a verse of hope, faith and love, three things we all long for.   I encourage you too, to click on this picture and print it.  What should you do with it after you print it?  Maybe you could write a ...