Favorite Things (Gift Guide) 2025

It’s that time of year again, everyone! Time to share a list of products my family and I have loved over the past year. I love writing these posts, it’s always so fun to go back and look at the things that have served us well. Also, I have to admit that I enjoy creating content that doesn’t make a mess in my kitchen. So, there is that. 🙂

Take a look at the great lists from years past…
FAVORITE THINGS 2024

FAVORITE THINGS 2023
FAVORITE THINGS 2022
FAVORITE THINGS 2021
FAVORITE THINGS 2020
FAVORTIE THINGS 2019
FAVORTIE THINGS 2018

AZUL QUEENS GARDEN

To say I love this game, would be a grand understatement. My daughters and I logged many an hour this summer playing it and it’s just so much fun. Plus the tiles are beautiful. Our extended family has tried many, many of the AZUL brand games, and there honestly isn’t one that we haven’t enjoyed. They do require a lot of thinking, strategy and some puzzling skills. However, each game doesn’t last super long (about 30-45 minutes), which is a perfect fit for me. A girl can only strategize so much. 🙂

TAPPED FOUR

This is a super fun, and pretty simple card game that’s great for all ages.

SLOW RISING STRESS BALLS

Truthfully, I put a couple of these into all of our Christmas stockings last year. They are full of sand and are made to reduce stress and anxiety. You can knead them around in your palm…and while I can’t say we are stress and anxiety free, they do seem to help. If that’s not a “mother of adult children” gift…I don’t know what is. 🙂

ACACIA WOODEN CHARCUTERIE BOARDS

I got these fun boards at Sam’s Club (here is a similar product at AMAZON). They have been so perfect, not only for serving snacks charcuterie style, but I love using them to serve my NO KNEAD BREADS at parties. So beautiful. 🙂

Ninja CREAMi 7-in-1 Ice Cream & Sorbet Maker with Additional Pints

Have you hopped on the Ninja Creami bandwagon yet? My son talked us into getting one and can I just say…it was the right decision. We’ve had a lot of fun making up all kinds of delicious concoctions that are “so much healthier for you, Mom and loaded with protien”…as my boys like to tell me. This particular model I found at Sam’s Club, it comes with 4 pint jars, which has been great. They are on sale for $169.98, which seems like an awesome deal. They are a bit more on Amazon, but don’t come with the 4 pints.

TOUCH SCREEN MIST CLEANER and MICROFIBER CLOTH

My daughter gifted me one of these fabulous cleaning tools and I love it. I keep it in my car to clean of the touch screen. You just press down on the top and cleaner comes out. The whole outside of the mister is made out of cloth that you use to wipe off the cleaner. So clever!

LED RECHARGABLE HEAD LAMP with MOTION SENSOR

My Husband and I love these fabulous headlamps. We often find ourselves awake early in the morning and take to the streets walking, even when it’s dark. Again, showing my age. 🙂 These head lamps are super bright and very lightweight.

CANVAS TOTE BAG, 15 POCKET (Medium size at 14 inches)

I love this bag so much. I use it as my “church bag”. It fits my scriptures and still has room to slide my small laptop, and notebooks into the center portion. It has a nice flat bottom and doesn’t topple over. It also features about a million pockets, plenty of space to store my reading glasses and phone and tissues and gum and an occasional book or treat for my Grandies, should they be attending with me at any given time. 🙂 I think I may have just aged myself. It’s a great bag for this very wonderful stage of life.

MINI TRAVEL JEWELRY CASE

I love this fun little travel case. I’ve used it a ton this past year.

FLECKS of GOLD, A THREE YEAR JOURNAL for MOTHERS

My sister gave me one of these wonderful journals last year for Christmas. It’s a “line-a-day” journal, that helps you keep track of the great parts of mothering. I found myself, more often than not writing down something funny that one of my kids or grandkids said that day. It was also great to write just a few words about some of the big events we’ve had over the year. Seems less daunting when there are just a few lines to write, yes? Such a great gift.

ONE LINE A DAY JOURNAL

A friend gifted me this fun little journal and I’ve loved it so much. I’ve used it to keep track of where I’ve seen God’s hand during the day. It’s been a much needed life line, this year.

RUFFLY PRINT SOCKS

I found these socks on SHEIN earlier this year, and truly it has become an obsession. They have so many cute styles and colors and patterns and textures and a girl can never have too many socks, right? They are all super affordable as well.

THE UNSELECTED JOURNALS of EMMA M LION

I shared these books last year, but I couldn’t help sharing them again! Truly, if you have not read them…at your earliest convenience. Please, do. They have recently come out on audible and the narrator is just as lovely and wonderful as the story its self. If you are a lover of these books…just take a look at this fun gift I received from a friend this year…

EMMA M LION T-SHIRT

If you know, you know, my friends. 🙂 So much fun, for lovers of this great series…:)

That’s it! Happy Holidays, everyone!