Tag: holidays

Practical Strategies for Holiday Budgeting and Organizing your Gift List

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Every year, when the leaves start to fall, I can’t help but get excited. I love all things fall: apple-picking, carving pumpkins, Halloween, baking...

Six Really Cool Gifts to Look For This Holiday Season

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There are a lot of suggestions for holiday gifts hovering around out there on the interwebs.   From the cute and snuggly, to the weird,...

Ten Things I Learned While Taking My Children’s Holiday Photos

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Every year, I become excited about dressing my kids in festive clothing and capturing perfect holiday photos for our Christmas card. You know exactly what I...

Meaningful Gift-Giving: A Strategic Guide

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Having children changes how we view the world; we all know this to be true.  During the holidays, that cliche holds even more truth....

Learning to Navigate the Holiday Season as an Adult Child of...

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My parents divorced when I was six. My parents lived in different states and splitting the holidays literally meant splitting each day in half....

Charity: Teaching Our Kids to Want to Give During the Holiday...

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Every year, my kids’ Christmas lists get just a little bit longer. And that pile of presents under our tree, despite my best intentions,...

Cultural Appropriation at Thanksgiving: My Daughter and Chris Hemsworth

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  https://www.instagram.com/p/BMFrgVfAmdP/ A few weeks ago, my secret boyfriend, Chris Hemsworth, shared an Instagram photo saying he stands with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who are...

Ode to Abu — When Your Babies Lose a Grandparent

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It's that time of year when all of the blogs are spewing out feel-good holiday posts about creating new family traditions, executing the perfect...

Mindfulness and the Holiday Season

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I went to a physical recently.  I haven't seen my primary care doctor, whom I love, since I became pregnant and gave birth to...

Managing the Holidays with a Broken Family

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I can clearly remember Thanksgiving at my grandmother's house when I was growing up. The table was nearly too long for the dining area, and...

Where to Buy or Cut Your Own Christmas Tree In and...

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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...

ShopVT 2015 is Here!

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  Win BIG this Holiday Season   For the third year in a row we have partnered with Try Vermont First  and are thrilled to announce the launch of...

Holiday Travel Tips for Your Preschooler

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The holidays are fast-approaching, and this could possibly mean more travel time with your preschooler or toddler. Here is a process that we've used for...

The 40th Annual Family Reunion: 10 tips for survival for your...

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A few weeks ago we drove home from a Family Reunion weekend at Lake Honeoye in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. I...