It’s a let-down for many.
After weeks, maybe even months, of decorating, shopping and wrapping, baking, visiting and being visited, the whole thing is over in a day or two. Suddenly, the display that seemed so essential to get ...
Why bother to make resolutions and then feel disappointed or guilty for breaking them? Do you get excited and resolve to change, but within days or weeks lose interest and can’t motivate yourself? Wonder why you ...
General wisdom these days declares that passing along a gift is tacky. Reasonable people get unreasonably offended when they even suspect that the puce scarf, the mug that says “It is All about Me,” or a silver-plated triple bonbon dish was first given to ...
The headline on our local paper reads, “A few rotten eggs spoil Easter Hunt.” Parents, who were supposed to stay behind the ropes at an egg hunt event for young children, leapt into the kid fray, scooping up eggs ...
Did you know that about 40 percent of the 180 million Valentine's cards purchased this year will be bought by parents?
It makes sense if you think about it. Our little ones, even when not so little anymore, live in our ...
Believe it or not, I’ve already started Christmas shopping for next year.
With a big family and a small budget, it’s the best way I’ve found to make Christmas special. Quite apart from practical considerations, I love ...
Procrastinators rejoice!
The coming of the New Year is a fantastic opportunity for you to energize yourself toward achieving your goals. If you are a big procrastinator, you may be skeptical of resolutions; for you, resolutions might be ...
The holidays are ripe for unearthing family dramas, often featuring a popular story line about competing loyalties. Though there are variations on the plot, the focus here will be on this dynamic as it plays out with men and boys ...
What is it that makes perfectly reasonable adults start to act like teenagers as soon as they hit their parents’ front door?
You know how it goes: The oldest starts acting bossy. The kid who never helped with the chores still heads ...
‘Tis the season for list-making: Lists of gifts to buy. Lists of cards to send. Lists of people to see and things to do. It can be overwhelming. It can seem endless. I have a confession to make: Sometimes I ...
Getting ready for the first Thanksgiving after David died was very, very hard. The loss of my husband’s brother and my best friend was still new and raw. How would we possibly celebrate the holiday without my kids’ magical ...
“From ghoulies and ghosties and
long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night, good Lord, deliver us!”
~ An old Scottish prayer
Watching a friend struggle to create an owl costume for her pre-schooler to wear this Halloween, I asked her ...
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