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Wow, I wish this site, Waiting For Christmas, had been around when I was a kid. Waiting for Christmas to get here seemed like an eternity and I'm sure it still does for my kids too. This site is offering daily crafts, activites, recipes and more from December 1st through December 24th for FREE. Yes, FREE! It's not often that you get this kind of quality information for free.

Sign up for this site today and share it with your children. I'm sure it will provide hours of holiday fun for the whole family.

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With the holidays quickly approaching, it's time to get the perfect gift. If you have a child who loves science then this light up globe from Hearthsong would be the perfect gift. I'd buy this globe for my 5 year old son had he not been given a nice globe a few months back plus he has an extra interactive globe. If your kiddo doesn't have a globe but wants one this one is afforable and really nice. It even doubles as a night light and what 5 year old wouldn't love that? This would make a perfect gift for a 5 years and up child who is fascinated with our Earth.

We love being able to promote other mom owned sites. Coolmompicks.com was founded by two moms and this holiday season they have put together an incredible gift guide so go on over there and buy something from their 2006 holiday gift guide!

They have chosen great gift ideas (the ones that won't break your bank account) for grandpa, the sitter, moms, and more. Check it out for yourself. You will be pleased and you don't have to get out of your house to do your shopping. :)

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Enter To Win here, Christmas Holiday Giveaway! It's free and easy.

In the previous post I talked about starting your own Santa Letter Business. Well, if that isn't for you but you are still interested in sending your child a Santa Letter. You can do it yourself for FREE. Yes, I said FREE.

DLTK-holidays.com has a Santa Communications Center where you can create and print out a letter absolutely free. How great is that? Your little guy or girl will be thrilled with a letter from Santa.

Santa Needs Helpers this holiday season. Why don't you start a Santa letter business? You can make kids happy as well as make money doing this. Sounds like fun, doesn't it?
Start a Santa Letter Business - find out how here!

And if you your wondering where to start here's a great article.

Where to Sell your Santa Letters? by Santa Letters

Congratulations! You’ve decided to start a Santa Letter Business. You’ve got your kit, ink, stationery and some little goodies for the envelopes.

You’re ready to start processing orders. But, before you settle down and rest, you still have some marketing to do. Even though there is a huge demand for Santa Letters this time of year, you still have to make it easy for people to find you – and get a buzz about your service.

You have three basic options for selling your letters.

Sell them on auction sites like eBay

Why not? This time of year everyone is shopping at eBay. Not only that, but they are searching for keywords like “Santa” and “Christmas” so your letter service stands a good chance of getting exposure. Of course, you’ll want to position yourself to get as many visitors as possible to your auction. You’ll also want to encourage referrals to increase sales.

Create a website where you can sell your letters year-round

This is, of course, another option for selling your Santa Letters. If this is too intimidating to you, there are easy site builder options that you can utilize that make creating a website as easy as creating a Word Document.

Sell the Letters offline via Order Forms

This is a great alternative to creating a website. Create order forms and deliver them to local preschools and daycares. If you’re business-savvy you may even consider running your offer as a fundraiser to encourage the preschools to recommend the Santa Letters even more.

Each of these methods has benefits, and they don’t have to be mutually exclusive. You can do all three – set up an online store, sell on eBay, and do a fundraiser at your child’s school by sending home order forms! Why not? Have a wonderful, and profitable Holiday Season!

Nicole Dean is the Publisher of several e-guides online, including the Santa Letter Kit. Stop by http://www.SantaLetterBusiness.com to learn how you can start a Santa Letter Business and make extra money this holiday season.

Article Source: Start a Santa Letter Business - find out how here!

Today I looked inside one of my kraft foods magazines (something I don't normally do) and picked out a new easy recipe to try for breakfast. I chose the Toad in a Hole because it looked good and I had all the ingredients on hand. My son really enjoyed this easy to make breakfast recipe. So it's definitely a kid friendly recipe if he will eat it.

How to make Toads In A Hole Breakfast Recipe

Ingredients You Will Need Are:
Bread
Eggs
cheddar cheese
bacon or bacon bits
salt & pepper

Preheat oven to 425 degrees
Put bread in a baking pan then make two holes in the bread so that you can fit an egg inside of it.
Butter the bread on the bottom
Then crack two eggs into the holed out bread
add the cheese, salt & pepper & bacon over the bread as desired.
Cook in oven for 10 minutes or until egg is set.

Enjoy!

You can also get lots of new recipes from kraft foods in your email each week and most of them are kid friendly. Go to the kraft foods website to sign up for free.

* image from kraft

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I would like to apologize for my absense on the site and for the absense of content for over a month. We are getting back into the swing of things today and will hopefully bring you lots of useful holiday deals, ideas, and more. Thanks for being a part of our site.