While I was touring all the beautiful homes for the Christmas Tour of Homes, I read several posts about families who decorated Jesse Trees during the Christmas season. I’ll admit I felt a little ignorant having never heard of a Jesse Tree before, so I did a little more research about the tradition, and I [...]
Mom’s Toolbox has an absolutely fantastic post about making your own advent calendar. I assure you, this post is a must see!
Tiffanie at Three Peas in a Pod blogs about how to make some adorable star, skate and stocking ornaments for your tree.
Laura Legend blogs about Christmas traditions from around the world. This is a [...]
Beyond letting our kids open a single gift on Christmas Eve, our family doesn’t really have any other regular traditions during the Christmas season. It’s sad, but true.
Of course we go to church, talk about the real meaning of Christmas, and exchange gifts with each other. But as a family we haven’t really developed any [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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