Do you have Christmas Eve traditions? Ours have changed over the years, but I know I’ll be making the dough for our traditional holiday cinnamon rolls. I’ll have lovely help this year—the tiny hands that actually made a much more perfect roll than mine on Thanksgiving. My three-year-old granddaughter was apparently born to bake! This […]
It was my idea to write about a sweetest Christmas memory. However, I didn’t really consider when I came up with said idea that I’ve had 68 Christmases, 48 of them as a mother, 28 of them as a grandmother. And I’m supposed to think of one? That’s a problem. Another problem is that I’ve […]
When my husband and I first became parents, we realized we really didn’t have that many Christmas traditions. My family gets together for a dinner on Christmas Eve, but other than that, we really didn’t have any ready-made events to attend. We didn’t belong to a church, we didn’t have a lot of friends who […]
Does your family have an Elf on the Shelf ©? I admit, I missed out on it. Imagine! A tiny little elf that hangs out in your house to report any naughtiness to Santa. How I wish I’d been able to use that to encourage my own kids to behave. “Santa’s watching you,” takes on […]
It’s the time of year for traditions, isn’t it? And I seem to love them all. But somehow, this year I’m falling short. It’s been so busy that the tree isn’t up. The gifts I’ve bought are still in their sacks in a prominent place (that means they’re in the way) in the living room. […]