Category: 2013 Holiday Gift Guide

During the holiday season I enjoy serving wine to my guests.  However, I am anything but a wine coinesseur.  Which is fine when I’m choosing something for just myself, or for me and my mom or my sister.  Truthfully, I don’t even really know ‘what I like‘ when it comes to wine.  By that I mean, I don’t know if I like a Riesling over a Chardonnay or a Merlot over a Shiraz.

The holidays are sneaking up on us before we know it, it’s going to be Thanksgiving!  During the holidays we can often get caught up in the hustle and forget about the true light of Christmas. Merry Larry and the True Light of Christmas is a brand new show from VeggieTales that provides the perfect opportunity to remind friends and family what Christmas is all about!

This is THE best VeggieTales Christmas movie yet, in my opinion. In just 45 minutes, they manage to wrap up a cute little story and Silly Song with a resounding message of the true meaning of Christmas – GIVING!

We’re not big pet lovers around here.  Don’t get me wrong, we don’t mind animals, or other people’s pets, we just don’t want the responsibility of having one of our own.  We forayed into being ‘pet’ owners once when our daughter came home from a school carnival with a goldfish.  We figured that was a pet we could handle, and we all actually enjoyed watching it swim around its bowl.

I don’t know if you remember, but last year I posted a short video on packing a Shoebox for Operation Christmas Child.  This is something we’ve done for many years with our daughter from when she was just a little girl as part of our Christmas preparations.  Over the years, OCC has been able to send 100 million gifts to children all over the world.

This year, they hope to send 9.8 million shoebox gifts to children in need.

Good news. Great joy.

The Snowman and The Snowdog, is a great addition to your holiday DVD library.

It is the brand new and charming sequel to the Christmas classic, The Snowman.  When a young boy an dhis mother move to a new home, the boy discovers a secret box hidden under the floorboards of his bedroom.  In the box, he finds a hat, scarf, some lumps of coal and a shriveled tangerine – it’s a snowman-making kit!  Later that day it starts to snow.

“I’ve been waiting for this my whole life!” – Mike Wazowski

Now available in stores, MONSTERS UNIVERSITY on Blu-ray DVD and 3D Blu-ray DVD is the Pixar ‘prequel/sequel’ to Monsters, Inc.

We took the opportunity to see it this summer in the theaters, but now with our daughter right in the middle of university applications, essays and paperwork; it was a lot of fun to watch it again at home.  It’s scarerific, especially in 3D.

Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!!

CARS 3D Ultimate Collector’s Edition on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, Digital HD, DVD and Digital Copy (U.S. Only) is in stores now!

We already had Cars 2 on 3D Blu-ray so we were very excited to also receive the original Cars movie in the 3D format to add to our collection.  With two young nephews comign to visit soon, I know that these DVDs are going to get watched, A LOT, while they’re here at Auntie’s. 

This November, make way for a new collection of holiday delights from Scholastic Storybook Treasures.

Merry Christmas, Splat…and More Winter Stories

Ready for this season’s holiday family viewing, Merry Christmas, Splat… and more Winter Stories arrives from the nationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning Scholastic Storybook Treasures series, which brings best-selling children’s storybooks to life and promotes a love of literature.

Are you a tea lover?  Do you know a tea lover?  If you are or you do, then you’ll want to check out Mighty Leaf Tea, a husband and wife owned company that makes luxurious whole leaf tea in a pouch.

TEAS the season!  Why is tea the perfect Holiday gift?  Tea can bring a moment of calm to a fast-paced life.  Inhale the wonderful aromas of cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger and let them transport you to the joy of a Holiday morning. 

My husband is a chocolate fiend.  Fiend I tell you.  One can NEVER go wrong buying him chocolate for gifts.  And that’s just what’s on my holiday gift list for him this year.  Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate.  The older he’s getting though, the more concerned he is about what he’s putting into his body.  A lot of chocolate is full of nasty chemicals and preservatives, and there’s got to be something better than that out there for a sweet treat.