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by Marie Rossiter on December 22nd, 2011 | No Comments »
What is a traditional holiday? For many families, traditions are generations in the making — whether it's a cookie recipe from great-grandma's kitchen, or stockings that were hand-stitched, or fragile decorations that have been in the family forever and have a special place in the house each year.
In…
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by Tammy Kling on December 9th, 2011 | No Comments »
Christmas traditions are an important part of the holiday season. Sometimes we get so entrenched in the same traditions year after year that we forget to let others create new traditions with us. I'm guilty of this for sure.
Mom's love to run the show. We make sure the tree…
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by Mom It Forward on September 22nd, 2011 | No Comments »
Traditions—Twenty years ago, I lived in the tiny town of Ponta Delgada on the tiny archipelagic island of São Miguel, part of the little European country of Portugal. Founded early in the 1400s and populated by a close-knit and deeply religious people, it is a society of very…
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by Signe Whitson, LSW on January 2nd, 2011 | No Comments »
Christmas is over. But the holiday spirit is what brings families closer together, so why not make the holidays last all year?
To keep the spirit of giving alive for my family, we decided to build a New Year's Resolution Advent Calender. The great part is that you can find…
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by Holly Homer on December 23rd, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Santa...
...I neither confirm or deny.
I walk the fence of fantasy ambiguity. I answer questions with questions and wildly elaborate scenarios. The questions work temporarily. The elaborate scenarios confuse the questioner and entertain me.
I think the whole Santa issue is fun. It is the ultimate inside joke. Kids…
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Holiday Traditions: Making “Traditional” Holidays Fun, Not Perfect
