Have you ever accepted gifts from your husband with criticism instead of grace? Jia offers great advice to all wives about how to accept gifts graciously.
I love to bake! I love to share my creations with others! What better time to share baked goods with friends and neighbors than at the holiday season. I am going to share with you how to make up holiday sample plates for gift giving to your friends and neighbors for the holidays.
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The holidays are here! The excitement of the season is in full force — as is holiday shopping. Over at Sittercity.com, the most popular question we get from parents this time of year is what they should give to their babysitter/nanny as a gift.
We know that the economy has made gift-giving a little tougher this [...]
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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