Christmas

Joy of the Season

December 28, 2010




Wishing you and your family all the best this holiday season. Hope you find many reasons to hug and laugh.

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Think of the Elves

December 20, 2010




We’ve been listening to Putumayo’s Christmas Around the World and Barenaked Ladies Barenaked for the Holidays CDs in our car lately. The kids have their favourite songs (and Julian went off to school this morning singing “Happy Birthday dear Jesus” even though he says he knows the Lord Jesus is just make believe), but my [...]

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Ready for Christmas?

December 18, 2010




To those readers celebrating Christmas or just anticipating time off from work and school to be together with their family, I thought I would throw together a few posts that you may find helpful while I continue working on my next in-depth post. Establishing Holiday Traditions Everyone wants the holidays to be a special time [...]

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Christmas Gifts for Teachers? What to Think of When Buying a Gift

December 8, 2010




It is almost time for Christmas break at most schools in North America. As children get ready to run out into the snow and enjoy a few weeks off from school, many parents and children may be looking to give a gift to their teachers to show their appreciation. In some schools it seems this [...]

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Twas the night before Christmas…

December 25, 2009




Just as when we were little, the kids got new pyjamas and settled down with the jolly white bearded guy (that’s my dad, otherwise known as Grandpa Santa Claus) for a reading of Twas the night before Christmas.

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Christmas: a time for cookies, carols, cookies, and conflicting ideals

December 17, 2009




I’m taking a little bloggy vacation this week and letting you all be entertained by some of my favourite bloggers. This is a guest post by Arwyn from Raising My Boychick, whose blog I profiled here a while back. I am conflicted when it comes to Christmas. I sort of love it, with a passion [...]

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Bloganthropy: Help me support the Christmas Exchange

November 20, 2009




The Christmas season usually creeps up on me. Slowly, but surely, over the course of the month of November I see more decorations, hear more Christmas songs, see more advertising and get invited to more seasonal events…just as the kids start to get into a panicked frenzy over the magic of it all and we [...]

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Essential Pregnancy Products Guide

November 15, 2009




Are you a newly pregnant mom? Or are you looking to buy a gift for a pregnant mom? Check out this crowd-sourced list of essential pregnancy products for ideas on what to buy. BellaBands I loved my Bella Bands and consider them an essential pregnancy accessory. I didn’t know about them during my first pregnancy, [...]

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Quelling crazed consumerism

November 28, 2008




I want that I need that I like that I want it I want that I want this That is what the chorus was starting to sound like at our house a few weeks ago. Our kids used to only watch Treehouse (advertising free educational kids television) and PBS Kids (in particular for Sesame Street). [...]

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