Spread Butter Snap pretzels on cookie sheet. Place one “hug” chocolate on each one. Bake at 200 for 4 minutes. Remove from oven and lightly press green and red M&Ms on top of each melting hug. When done, place in fridge to cool, then send goodies with husband to share with co-workers (after first eating [...]

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Are you a girl who reads? If not, you should become one because readers make you pretty great catches. And if you have daughters, you might want to mentor them in the reading department, not just because others will want to date them, but because they will be really great, well-round women. That’s what the [...]

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Stockings seem simple enough, right? Buy a few trinkets, stash them in the big sock, and surprise the kiddos on Christmas morning. (Note: You will only stuff your own stockings, of course, if Santa falls down on his job.) But it’s not so easy, really, especially if you aim to keep a happy budget, because [...]

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New Year’s Eve isn’t all late nights, drunken parties, and lots of smooching. OK, well, there is a lot of that, but there are family-friendly options for ringing in 2012, too, and MapQuest is starting to roll out for young and old the hot spots across the U.S. and abroad. There’s Florida, and, specifically, Orlando, [...]