4 Deliciously Festive Holiday Cookie Recipes

Here are some great holiday cookie recipes that will undoubtedly become staples in your household–So be sure to save these recipes!

Chocolate Cherry Snowballs

Tender tea cookies are enhanced with pretty specks of candied cherries and a delightful chocolate drizzle.

Total Time: 2 hours 5 min
Makes: About 4 dozen cookies

You will need:

1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup (8oz) candied cherries, finely chopped
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

1. Heat oven to 400°F. In large bowl, beat butter with electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Gradually beat in 1/2 cup powdered sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in almond extract. In medium bowl, mix flour and salt. On low speed, beat flour mixture into butter mixture until well blended. Stir in cherries.

2. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. On ungreased …

Woman Tribune has Been Nominated for an Appletiser Blog Award!

When I opened my email this morning, I realized that Woman Tribune has been making some excellent progress and over the past year we have really branded ourselves as a reputable, informative and just plain fun place for women. I received an email today informing me that one of our recent articles on a great gift idea for kids, Miss Brittany’s Organic Preschool Fun Dough, was nominated by Glam Media UK for an Appletiser Blog Award.

Glam Media has partnered with Appletiser this year to showcase the best blogging talent of 2009 and for Woman Tribune to be nominated is really very exciting! Every week over the next few months, the person with the highest number of votes will receive an Appletiser Blog Award Winner badge and at the end …

People Sure Do Like to Say Twitter–A Lot

Twitter was recently branded as the most used word of 2009, with Barack Obama coming in second and H1N1 coming third.

But how do we know what words people are saying the most in a particular year? Well, Twitter was crowned the winner by Texas-based algorithms company, Global Language Monitor (GLM). Other words people like to say a lot are vampire, which we can blame on Stephanie Meyer and her Twilight series as well as True Blood, and of course, the word stimulus, which makes sense since we’re in the middle of a global recession and $800 billion sure is a lot of money to be pumped into the US economy–and still have more people living below the poverty line since the Great Depression.

This definitely shows how big Twitter is, not just as a social networking …

Plan Toys Educational Activity Bus from eBeanstalk

The Plan Toys Activity Bus (provided by eBeanstalk, a company dedicated to learning toys and baby toys for educational development) is an extraordinary, safe and green toy for children ages 3 and up that is sure to capture the attention of your children. It is a bus that opens up into a classroom and comes with two little people, desks and other school accessories to play with and is a great educational tool.

When we first received this toy it was right around back to school time and since one of my stepdaughters was headed to kindergarten and the other was headed to Head Start (pre-kindergarten) it was a great experience to be able to let them play school …