Today’s post is allllll about The Elf Returns Breakfast!! Saturday, instead of writing review posts I cleaned and decorated for my annual Elf Breakfast!!  Frankly, Santa would leave me coal if he saw the mess in my house! So it was an all day project!! This is how The Elf Returns Breakfast works: At 7am a text will go out from my Elf, Norgan, saying there is a surprise at NaNa’s house. My sweet Elf Norgan was very busy, first put up the Christmas Tree, décorated the house and had the energy to have made breakfast for everyone!! He’s cut up fresh fruit, made snowman donuts, reindeer donuts! He’s cooked bacon, sausage and little bitty pancakes too!! How amazing is MY ELF!! AND for the LOVE OF ALL THINGS CHRISTMAS can he please do this for the rest of the week!?!? The kids will ring the doorbell at 7:30 and The NaNa will answer the door with her hair on end, mascara under her eyes and ask through squinty eyes “WHY are you ALL here?? HERE!?!?” The kids will race past me to the table announcing they got a text from MY Elf!! AND LOOK NaNA!!! LOOK!!! (at least, this…

I promise it really does rain (occasionally) in Southern California. Honest it does, if the weather reports are correct the next few months are supposed to be filled with high winds and tons of rain. So I am thrilled with this WindHero Pro Travel Umbrella. This umbrella is rated for really high winds as in tough enough to endure 60 miles an hour gusts of wind!! Tested in a wind tunnel and certified for 6,000 canopy openings. I’ve had umbrellas destroyed because a big gust of wind flipped the umbrella inside out. If a big gust of wind flips the Crown Coast Umbrellas around the frame simply bounces back, it’s so much stronger than an aluminum frame. The frame is treated with an anti-corrosion layer so that the stainless steel frame won’t rust. The umbrella canopy opens to protect a very large area. The shape is concave so you really stay dry under this umbrella. This umbrella has a one touch open and close button. The open is very easy to push, so easy the 4-year-old can do it easily. Closing takes a little bit more strength than the kid has but it’s still easy. The 100% Polyester Canopy, A…

ZING-BONG! That phrase cracks 4-year-old Alice UP!! It’s become our catch phrase eve. ZING-BONG!! This is a cute book about The Daring Prince Dashing. How daring is the Prince? Well, for starters he bathes in a crocodile-infested moat, he eats while dangling upside down from the tallest trees, and he toasts his s’mores by dragon’s breath. On the night of the Royal Ice Cream Social, the Prince hears a loud ZING-BOING. In walks a girl with a stick over her shoulder. The Prince immediately wants to know what that stick is! But, the girl is already bounding across the room to eat her sundae on the tightrope. As the Royal Ice Cream Social continues The Prince realizes he has met his match. At the stroke of bedtime, the girl rushes off without her stick! Prince Dashing announces that he must find his new friend and will search high and low, but being as daring as he is he feels he must do this blindfolded. (Yes, the towns folk shake their heads, the King groans and the Queen chokes on her bacon!) The story continues with a blindfolded Prince galloping off through the villages in search of the ‘stick girl’. The…