It's Christmas week and SOON, Santa Claus will be coming to town! If your kids are anything like mine, we've been counting down the days until D-Day, the day we've ALL been waiting for: Christmas Eve! Every year, my kids LOVE following along on his journey so that they're in bed in time for his visit. This year, we hope you'll join us. To help get you ready, here are several ways you can track his progress! 🎅 🎄    NORAD Tracks Santa    🎅 🎄 Thanks to NORAD aka the North American Aerospace Defense Command, we can easily track his location and follow along as Santa makes his journey from the North Pole to homes across the globe as he and his reindeer deliveries on Christmas Eve. For over 50 years, NORAD (formerly known as CONAD or the Continental Air Defense Command) has been tracking Santa's flight. They use all the modern technology available to them: a radar and satellite system, along with their staff at the NORAD Tracks Santa program which is rumored to b...

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Time to write a letter to Santa AND get one back in return! Angelia's Tutoring and Macaroni Kid Shreveport-Bossier Moms In the Know have you covered so that you can surprise your kids with a FREE personalized letter from Santa this Christmas! Santa is writing to children all across the Shreveport-Bossier area and beyond this year and Angelia's Tutoring and Macaroni Kid Shreveport-Bossier Moms In the Know are proud to help him send those letters! You can receive your FREE letter from Santa by simply filling out the form and hitting submit. Santa will get to writing your letter immediately and send you an email containing the letter and a few extra Christmas Surprises to color and share with your family! You can click this link to fill out the form and get a FREE printable PDF personalized letter from Santa for your children! Also included is a cute Santa advent calendar craft with ideas to help your family count down the days u...

November 6, 2020   Image Credit:  https://www.pexels.com/photo/autumn-autumn-colours-autumn-leaves-background-235767/ Are you looking for the best spots for fall foliage in the Shreveport-Bossier area? We are lucky to have so many great spots for leaf-peeping!  We've listed our family's favorite places to see autumn leaves in Shreveport, Bossier City and beyond! We love hiking and visiting parks, so we included those in our list of where to see fall leaves as well. Want to know when fall colors will be at their peak in our Area? Check out this fall foliage prediction map from  SmokyMountains.com .  Simply move the slider at the bottom of the map to get an idea when leaves will be at peak colors in Louisiana and across the United States.  No map like this can be 100 percent accurate, of course, but it can give you a good idea of when fall colors will peak. Ready to go find some beautiful fall leaves in our area? Here are my family's favorite spots for leaf-p...

Christmas Survey   1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? depends upon my mood! Frozen Chocolate Egg Nog is divine...Executive Hot Chocolate is, too!  2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree Santa leaves them under the tree,hidden around the house, or in stockings usually!   3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? the tree came with white lights which I have learned to love-sometimes I miss my colored blinkie lights though!(cannot stand chasers though!)   4. Do you hang mistletoe? When I had it growing in my yard, yes...even gathered it at midnight for Yule to make it official!  5. When do you put your decorations up? Usually whenever the mood strikes us-this year they are going up as a party game for Bregon's birthday!  6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? My grandmother's sweet potato recipe followed by Minnie Evelyn's squash recipe & the greenberg smoked turkey 7. Favorite holiday memory as a child: I ...