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It's Christmas picture taking time and  Zoey's Attic Personalized Gifts has just what you need! Our super cute and totally fun Christmas shirts will make for amazing family Christmas photos! Or add some plaid bottoms and you have the most adorable family pajama set! The buffalo plaid bear family of four raglan shirt set is a customer favorite. Also, our new daddy and mommy to be families absolutely love wearing the fun "Cookie in the Oven" pregnancy announcement shirt set whe …

Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November each year. This year's celebration will take place on November 28th. I have always loved  Thanksgiving since I was a small child. Preparations began on Thanksgiving Eve when my younger sister and I would help our mom make her special stuffing for the turkey. My job was to toast the four loaves of bread needed to make the dressing. The toasted bread would then be torn into small cubes and simmered in he …

Can you believe it's mid January? And... I've already been gifted with not one, but two bouts of the flu bug going around this winter season! Guess I wasn't in the population group for which the vaccine will work this year. Anyway, I'm feeling so much better now, but I haven't really thought much about  Valentine's Day and it will be here before we know it! I have always loved Valentine's Day and as a child I especially enjoyed the school parties the room mothers planned for us on this …

True confession here... the Fourth of July is not my favorite holiday. As a kid, it meant summer vacation was on the downward slope and I didn't like that scenario at all! And there's more... I'm afraid of fireworks! Pyrotechnics really scare me and I'm sorry to have passed this fear on to my daughter as well. I don't like the loud booming noises and I certainly have never enjoyed sparklers. Unfortunately, even with multiple safety precautions in place it seems someone gets a sparkler bur …

Yes, I'm proud to say I'm Irish! Well, I think everyone is at least a "wee bit Irish" every year on March 17th! Also, I feel so very blessed to have visited the homeland... the Emerald Isle... my Ireland! Visiting Blarney Castle and kissing the Blarney Stone was a dream come true (albeit a bit of a terrifying experience!). I actually had no idea the famous Blarney Stone was at the top of Blarney Castle and that I would have to lie down on my back and kiss it upside down! A rather trau …