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A Fun Christmas Idea For Moms

Shh…I’m going to share a fun secret with you. Here is a very secret tradition that I do, just on my own. Although now that I have a teenager, I’m thinking about enlisting him to help me with my project. What I like to do is to sneak tiny presents under friends’ Christmas trees. Or if their stockings are hung, I can slip the tiny gift inside. The reason is simple. We moms work very hard pulling off Christmas. And we don’t often get very many surprises on Christmas morning. (I’m talking nice surprises here– not wet beds or ear … Continue reading →

Counting Down the Days

When my oldest son was in preschool we were all looking forward to flying back east to visit our extended family. He couldn’t hold the idea of twenty-one days in his head, and didn’t understand that we weren’t actually flying on Christmas, but a few days earlier. I tried to show him on the calendar, but his three year old mind couldn’t quite get the concept of that many days, and what those calendar squares meant.I came up with the idea of a cross between a to-do list and an advent calendar. I got out extra envelopes from leftover Christmas … Continue reading →

Looking Ahead for Holiday Shopping

We’ve got a huge shopping season coming and there’s going to be lots of toys, games and more that your kids are interested in. I’m going to start a new series here in the Family Fun forum in late September, most likely. Two to three times a week, I’ll be going through catalogs, websites and even stores to look for the latest and greatest in toys, games and more for gift ideas. I’ll review what I can to give you as parents a better idea of what might be good for your kids and what might not. We’ll grade them … Continue reading →