Honoring family traditions during Christmas time is so comforting for me. It is what I look forward to every year. What unique family traditions do you enjoy at holiday time? When the kids were younger, we went to Breakfast with Santa. Gosh, I loved that! We’d get them dressed in their Christmas finery and go to Applebees for breakfast. Santa would show up on a firetruck. The entire…
We are entering the busiest time of the year. You can almost feel the whoosh of stress that comes with Black Friday, even though it is still days away. Want to make good use of time a priority this holiday season? If you don’t, you will wind up being frazzled and stressed out for the holidays. I am intent on avoiding this at all costs! Do you ever…
It was bound to happen eventually. How are you going to handle Thanksgiving Day when there’s no more kid’s table? Yikes! Your refrigerator is bare. There are no handprint turkeys pasted to it. Your kids are now adults, but they are not yet married. Do you bide your time until the grandkids arrive? Or, do you set up an adult crafting table? In 2020, we all…
Do the holidays make you anxious? They make me very nervous. However, I’ve come up with four things I can do to help lower my holiday anxiety. Every year I vow I will do things differently and not allow myself to get stressed and caught up in holiday anxiety. Sound familiar? These four things helped me be less anxious last year. Four Ways I Lower My Holiday Anxiety…
Memorial Day is the unofficial/official kick-off of the Summer season. What does Memorial Day mean to you and your family? It originated as a day of remembrance. I believe lately, its meaning is being overshadowed by the start of Summer. That makes me sad. This Memorial Day weekend will undoubtedly feature the smell of hot dogs and hamburgers, and the sounds of Summer will be all around you…
Can you believe we’re still dealing with a pandemic? What will outwitting Thanksgiving in a pandemic look like? This will be interesting! It never occurred to me that the pandemic would impact our Thanksgiving family gatherings in March. I thought Covid-19 would be long gone by now. But it is still lingering. Not only has Covid not made its graceful exit, but it may be gearing up…