Tag: celebrating the 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.

My family and I find December to be a challenging time of year. We celebrate Hanukkah, a minor 8-day Jewish holiday that celebrates our...

I found out I was pregnant with my first child at the beginning of December 1995. I wanted to surprise my husband with that...

Before we moved to Vermont, my husband and I had our holiday schedule streamlined. When we had kids, we decided that we would not...

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...

It's the holiday season. And while the stores are piled with all things peppermint, another yearly custom is about to occur. The one where some...