Looking for an easy DIY project? This will take you 20 minutes. These DIY Map Ornaments can be personalized for anyone. The ornaments below reflect various places in our lives: Lake Winnipesaukee, Martha’s Vineyard, and New York City. I made the Martha’s Vineyard ornament for our Honeymoon spot. Lake Winnipesaukee for one of our favorite vacation spots. And the New York City ornament for obvious reasons. DIY Map Ornaments Supplies…
Harvey joined us at our Toys for Tots party last night, where he walked the step and repeat with Rudolph.…
Harvey took my iPhone. I saw him Google-mapping the North Pole. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find any public transportation that would get him there. He took quite a bit of selfies too.…
My friend Jim and I have been lifelong friends. We’ve held a toys for tots party every year on our birthdays (December 18th – Jim turns 50 this year haha!) and we are in the final stretch of preparing for this year’s holiday gathering. Back in 1990 when Jim and I were in our early 20’s, we wanted to throw ourselves a birthday party and have people bring them gifts. When we took a…
Harvey found a great recipe on Lilies and Loafers for a Honey-Garlic Chicken dish and decided to make it for us. The kitchen was a mess, but dinner was delicious!…
I came home last night to Harvey in a bag of candy kisses. Looks like someone likes the milk chocolate, too.…
In an effort to collect toys for Toys for Tots, Harvey sat out in Rockefeller Center to offer his services in exchange for some toys.…
Since Harvey loved the Rockefeller Tree lighting so much, we brought him to see it in person. He stood there in silence and awe. It was a Christmas miracle at work.…
Yesterday, our family came to visit us at our apartment (photo below) and do all the touristy things in NYC. In between jumping around the city, Fatima, Harvey, and I grabbed some Starbucks lattes and warmed up. This is not a sponsored post 🙂…
I found Harvey searching around Lilies and Loafers. He found some soft chocolate chip cookies, delicious garlic-lime brussel sprouts, and our Marquisrita recipe (but he will be staying away from that…)…
Harvey watched the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Tree with such intensity.…
This season, we’re going to have a very merry Marquis Christmas. When we were looking for DIY projects for the wedding (I promise more to come), we saw a lot of other outdoor weddings had DIY marquee signs of the bride and groom’s last names. We recently took a trip up to Target, where I stumbled upon multi colored globe christmas lights! Most of the marquee signs used the outdoor globe/market…
Over the Christmas break, Fatima and I made a DIY photo booth for my family’s Christmas parties. On Christmas Eve, we celebrate with my mom’s side of the family and on Christmas Day we head down to the shores of CT to celebrate with my dad’s side of the family. Over the past few months, DIY photo booths have been such a hit at friends’ parties. So we thought we…
My aunt Holly and her best friend Jim host an annual Toys for Tots party in my hometown of Wallingford, CT. Generating thousands of toys each year for families in Connecticut, their local event has grown into one of the largest collections in the state. I asked my aunt to write a note about her story: “In 1990 I decided I wanted to throw a birthday party for myself and…
What are Santa’s favorite cookies? Sugar, oatmeal raisin, chocolate chip? I made an effort to leave him 3 different kinds each year, hoping he’d eat at least 1 of them and still keep me on the “Nice List.” The next morning, thankfully, they were all gone. As we make sure the fire in the fireplace is out, the stockings hung, and our cookies are left out for the man in…
What’s more American than a Chocolate Chip Cookie? How about a Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie on Christmas? The chocolate chip cookie was a delicious accident. It was discovered in 1930 by Ruth Graves Wakefield, in Whitman, Massachusetts. Owner of the Toll House Inn, a popular restaurant that always supplied a good home cooked meal. Ruth’s cookbook, published in 1936, featured a recipe called “Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie,” and soon…