Create a Letter to Santa and help Make a Wish Foundation

This is so cool! Thanks to our friend Caroline at Lina Bean for passing along the information.

Your little ones can create a fun letter to Santa online, take it in to Macy’s and they will donate $1 to make a wish up to $1,000,000!

The site is very cute… click here to take a look for yourself.

The Imagination Movers are Coming to the 610…

Disney’s Imagination Movers Rock out in Reading!

“In a Big Warehouse Tour”
Date: Friday Apr 08, 2011
Time: 04:00 pm
Venue: Sovereign Performing Arts Center
Price – Range $35.50 – $30.50
Tickets Available by Clicking Here
*8 ticket limit.

* Once a child has reached their first birthday they need a ticket.

The wildly popular New Orleans-based rock band for kids of all ages will travel coast to coast playing their most popular songs and bringing the magic of the Imagination Movers television series’ Idea Warehouse to life performing in a series of 100 shows across the nation. Concertgoers can expect special appearances from Nina, Warehouse Mouse and other characters from the TV series.

The Soverign Center is offering a “Mini Movers” VIP seat for $35.50 + $80.
Includes: one premium seat in the first 10 rows of the theater and access to the “Think Tank” – a special post-show with an Imagination Movers theme. Healthy Snack and meet and greet photo opportunity with Imagination Movers will be available. Chance to participate in “Movers inspired “Jam Session”. Signed Movers poster and Imagination Movers VIP laminate also included.

TODAY ONLY!!! 50% OFF UGGS!

Just in case you missed the Ugg Sale last week…. here is another opportunity to save!

Tuesday, 11/30 offer! UGG Up to 50% off!

Pet of the Week

Momma is an adult spayed female domestic short hair cat that is available for adoption through the Chester County SPCA. Momma came to the shelter as a stray on August 3. Her finders believe that her previous owners moved and left her behnid. Momma is a sweet and affectionate girl who enjoys attention. She also enjoys laying in laps and kneading with her paws. If you are able to provide Momma a loving home, visit the Chester County SPCA at 1212 Phoenixville Pike in West Goshen or call 610-692-6113. Momma’s registration number is 96800612. Momma is eligible for our Eagles Purrfect Play for Cats adoption incentive program. This special program, made possible through a gift from the Philadelphia Eagles Treating Animals With Kindness (TAWK) program, allows the Chester County SPCA to offer a discounted adoption fee of only $25 for all special needs cats or cats over the age of 5! The Spayed Club is offering a low cost spay/neuter transport clinic to the Chester County community on Thursday, December 9. This clinic is open to all cats and male dogs. Appointments need to be made directly with The Spayed Club Spay/Neuter Clinic no later than Tuesday, December 7 by calling 484-540-8436. To look at some of the other animals available for adoption, visit the shelter or log onto http://www.ccspca.org.

Tasty Tuesday – Breakfast Casserole

As I write this post, it is Sunday evening. I have officially survived hosting my first Thanksgiving with flying colors, and enjoyed an amazing 4 day weekend with my Hubby and daughter. We’ve eaten LOTS of food, decorated for the holidays, strolled around Longwood Gardens at night with all the beautiful lights, and did a lot of relaxing.

I love that we did a lot of relaxing.

One thing I love about Thanksgiving is that even when it is over, there is still SO MUCH to look forward to! The holidays are only just starting to gear up, with plenty of parties, lunches, brunches, cookie exchanges, holiday dinners, present swapping, song singing and general fanfare to be had.

This also means tons of baking and cooking to look forward to. Yippee! For the next few weeks, I’d like to post some holiday recipes that will help both you and I ready ourselves for all of the eating, events and hostess-ing we will encounter for the next month!

Today’s recipe is a great (and simple) breakfast or brunch recipe. It can be prepped the night before, but it is also easily thrown together the morning of an event. Brunches seem more prevalent this time of year, so having a brunch-ready recipe is nice to have on hand. Many of you probably have a recipe like this in your repertoire, but if you don’t, it will be a good one to throw into your recipe box!

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Breakfast Casserole

• 4 slices of bread
• 12-16 oz bacon or sausage, cooked/drained/crumbled
• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
• 6 eggs, beaten
• 2 cups milk
• 1 tsp dry mustard

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease bottom of a 13×9-inch baking dish. tear up bread and arrange on the bottom of the baking dish. Sprinkle cooked meat over bread, topping with shredded cheese. Mix eggs, milk and mustard together; pour over the bread, meat and cheese. Bake for 35-40 minutes, or until eggs are done.

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It’s nothing special, but it is easy and comes out tasty every time. This might even be a fun breakfast treat to make on a Saturday or Sunday morning over the holidays for your family. Breakfast casserole is a nice break from the monotonous cereal or bagels we eat on a daily basis.

More holiday-inspired recipes to come! Have a great week!

You can read more about Steph’s life and recipes at her blog, Confessions of a Stay-At-Home Mom.

On Tap’s ‘Adopt A Family’ Holiday Event

On Tap’s “Adopt A Family” Holiday Evening
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Columbia Bar and Grill
148 Bridge Street, Phoenixville, PA 19460

On Tap Network is fully active this year in our community! Not only are they doing a Holiday Donation Drive with many Chester County businesses from November through December, but they are also dedicating THIS event to a local family in need!

For more information and to REGISTER, please visit this link: http://ontapholidayevent.eventbrite.com/ .

Cost: PLEASE BRING A DONATION FOR ATTENDANCE FEE. Click here for donation wish list.

Dress Code: Festive Attire: ladies, a bit of sparkle or holiday wear and men, dress pants/shirt. This is Semi-Formal.

Your Guide to All Things Holiday in and around Chester County

Chesco Moms Guide to festive light displays in Chester County and nearby areas.

FREE or Really Inexpensive Photos with Santa

Breakfast with Santa in Chester County

Holiday Tea at The Radnor Hotel

Celebrate the Holidays in Southern Chester County

Malvern – Victorian Christmas

Holiday Parades in Chester County

Celebrate The Holidays in Wayne

Meet Live Reindeer at Waterloo Gardens

Narberth Dickens Festival

Holiday Extravaganza 2010 Event Registration is NOW OPEN!

Registration for Holiday Extravaganza is now open!

Click here to Register.

If the link is not working cut and paste the following into your web browser. http://chestercountymoms.eventbrite.com/

Some of the fabulous goodies up for grabs at Holiday Extravaganza

I bet you all are wondering what some of the goodies up for grabs at Holiday Extravaganza are going to be? We don’t want to ruin the surprise and tell you them all, but we will tell you a few of them.

Our friends at Scott Honda, David Fuller Karate, Learning Express and Cuisine to Go are the local sponsors of the event. Some of the raffle items they are giving away are a Nintendo Wii, Fisher-Price Power Wheels Toy Story Lil’ Quad, Portable DVD Player,
Plasma Car Ride On, Gift Cards to Local Restaurants and lots more.

Other raffle items include gift cards to Calista Grand Salon & Spa, Little Nest Photography, Avante Salon & Spa, The King of Prussia Mall, Currie Salon & Spa…just to name a few.

This year Shannon and I are all about an experience so we are giving away tickets to our favorite area attractions and family activities… You will have to wait and see what they are!

As you can see there are a lot of great items up for grabs this year and we have lots of surprises up our sleeves. You know we love “Oprah Moments”.

With that said we really hope to collect 1000 toys for Toys for Tots and hope your Toy donations help us reach our goal.

We are collecting new, unopened and unwrapped toys for the Chester County Chapter for Toys for Tots. In exchange for your toy donations you are given raffle tickets for chances to win fabulous prizes. These fabulous prizes are hard to find toys, pricey toys, local business gift certificates, restaurant gift certificates and lots of other goodies. (Example: for every 1 toy that you donate you get 5 raffle tickets. The maximum ticket amount is 50 per guest. You are welcome to bring more than 10 toys, we would love that, Toys for Tots would love it, but the maximum amount of tickets any guest can receive is 50.

Don’t forget registration for Holiday Extravaganza begins tonight at 8:00PM. To register please visit: http://chestercountymoms.eventbrite.com/. Registration will not open until 8PM.

If you have questions about Holiday Extravaganza please click here and visit our FAQ page.

FREE Yankee Candle when you spend $100 at The Exton Mall

Free Yankee Candle Jar when you spend $100 at The Exton Mall starting November 29.

Festive scented varieties, 3.7 oz.

Simply redeem your same-day store receipts at Customer Service while supplies last. It’s our way of saying thank you for shopping at Exton Square!
Limit one gift per customer per day.

Click here for more information about Holiday programs at Exton Square!