The year 2008 hangs by a thread; tonight beckons the big parties, the celebrations and the New Year’s resolutions. I’m still content to look back at the big fade of the Christmas season, as its ripples cast an ever-widening circle until it is completely gone; yet absorbed into who we are. I liked 2008. Just [...]
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The newspapers tell us daily about our ongoing recession, and desperate retailers are slashing prices at deep discounts to get customers back at the register. However, whenever I shop I find the stores crowded, and the huge promised discounts missing. The week before Christmas, I bought my husband this mug, in “D”, at Anthropologie for [...]
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After the presents are unwrapped, they still go back to their train, duct tape and scraps from the recycling bin. Materials: Duct tape, paper towels tubes, plastic vegetable trays, green tissue paper (for grass) and the front of an organic panda cereal box.
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If you look close, you’ll see that our attachment to our treasured decorations is rooted in the object’s history, rather than the beauty of the object itself. History, of course, takes time to develop, and builds momentum while we are not looking. I clearly remember the day I found this wooden nativity at my favorite [...]
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Cinnamon Rolls baking in the oven on Christmas morning. This could happen with just a few, easy preparatory steps. Make the dough, roll the rolls, stick them in your freezer and thaw in the refrigerator on Christmas Eve. On Christmas morning, you bake the rolls. Maybe it’s something about having four boys around you all [...]
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The question, Is Santa Real, rings through the holiday season with the Christmas carols, and just like the icicles hanging from our rooftops, sends a shiver down our spines. We can stall, ignore or sugarcoat our answers; however these futile attempts to side-step the issue rarely satisfy the insatiable curiosity of a child.
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I am invited to a cookie exchange, and these gingerbread cookies are the cookies I’ll be bringing to the party. This is the gingerbread dough I make every year, now my 10-year-old even mixes the dough, because it is always consistently easy to work with. The dough never sticks, rarely requires a dusting of flour, [...]
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My favorite holiday classic movie, The Bishop’s Wife, (Cary Grant, David Niven and Loretta Young) is one that often gets lost among the traditional holiday classics: It’s A Wonderful Life, White Christmas and Elf, (that is a classic now, right?) Family movie, this is not. Unlike the movies listed above, The Bishop’s wife gives you [...]
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