Wordless Wednesday’s #5

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My other two babies (Mia and Keely)

Festive Holiday Tea’s

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I was browsing around the grocery store looking for holiday baking goodies when i went down the seasonal isle and found some holiday teas were now in stock. If you have read my blog before you know how much of a fan I am of teas. So I was curious, I mean, I like holiday flavoured latte’s why not tea?

They have 5 new flavours!

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Nutcracker Sweet, Sugar Plum Spice, Sugar Cookie Sleigh ride, Gingerbread Spice and Candy Cane Lane.

The one I chose to buy was the Candy Cane Lane and here’s what’s in it:

Ingredients: Peppermint leaves, decaffeinated green tea, orange peel, natural vanilla and mint flavors with other natural flavors, cinnamon, milk thistle, blackberry leaves, roasted carob, roasted chicory and vanilla bean.

It’s naturally caffeine free and contains no gluten. I wasn’t aware that some tea’s had gluten in them to begin with. To me this tea tastes like peppermint with a hint of vanilla, its very good.

To see if you can get these products near you click here! The neat thing about this site is that you can see what tea’s you already like and they’ll recommend similar teas that you may also enjoy!

I think I will go make myself a second cup while I finish my blasted Christmas cards, the next kind I think I may buy will be the sugar cookie sleigh ride.

So in the mean time enjoy a cup of tea!

My Clark Griswald Christmas tree

Since my husband and I have lived together (yes we lived in sin for 3 years) we have always had a fake Christmas tree. 

Our first tree looked like this, but ever so less tasteful:

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He grew up with fake trees as his parents run a daycare, so to him this fake Christmas tree deal was normal. I however grew up with huge ass  big real Christmas trees. 

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I have fond memories as a child seeing this huge tree strapped to our station wagon, dwarfing it in the process. 

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You see we had a 15 food cathedral ceiling, and every year we managed to get a tree that “just” fit. And wouldn’t you know it, every year it would fall.

Now we had to have fake trees while we rented, but it’s been 3 years since we’ve been in our home and because its our little guy’s first Christmas, I thought real tree it is! 

Now I had two concerns, one being fire and two being the cats. See I know cats love to play in, around, and on Christmas trees. and when we were kids, they always managed to knock it down.

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So today hubby went to go get a stand for the tree, and we’re going to attempt to bring this huge tree inside. pictures to follow!

Wordless Wednesdays #4

The new addict!

Should I really start him on this? Probably not!