Holidays

Are you traumatized by current events? Feel like you and everyone else are wrapped up in it, and yet you cannot find footing? Did you just trip on your rotting jack-o-lantern on the way down your front steps to get the latest 25lbs of gift catalogs in the mail? Don’t get overwhelmed. I’ll help you get through these 2 months of Christmas preparations with advice from someone who has never celebrated Christmas.

I come from a pretty patriotic family.  My grandfather served in the Army in World War II .  My grandmother, his wife, held down...

While I love the holiday season, December is always the busiest month of the year. I really enjoy going to cookie swaps, but they...

As the holidays quickly approach, I’ve been brainstorming, crowdsourcing, and researching thoughtful and frugal gifts for teachers and school support staff who all help...

In the last few years I've stopped making a New Year's resolution. I make enough resolutions throughout the year, that by the time New Years...

When I was pregnant with my eldest daughter, a lot of my dreams centered on the various holiday traditions I was going to create...

As I’ve grown older, my short term memory has grown worse. So much so that I actually asked my doctor if early onset Alzheimer’s...

1. My kids are another year older, and I still don’t have a picture of them on Santa’s lap. When the holiday cards and Facebook...

If your family enjoys the tradition of picking out a real tree for Christmas you know there are a lot of choices out there! We...

When my family moved to Vermont in 2011, we found ourselves at home sending our children to Heartworks Preschool in Shelburne. One of the...

This year will be the tenth time I have celebrated the holidays in Vermont after moving away from my hometown in Ohio. I moved here...

So here we are... its December! No matter what you and your family celebrate it is the season of giving. We give to our...

I love marking the seasons with my kids and holidays are a great way to do it. I find that holidays are more fun with...

Every Valentine's Day approximately 1 billion greeting cards are exchanged. It is the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, (Christmas is the largest...