Happy July! I hope you enjoyed a happy 4th of July! We enjoyed breakfast traditions with our family, and then spent the rest of the day hanging out with friends. I hope your day included some fun celebrations. Speaking of celebrations, I'm celebrating summer with a Christmas in July giveaway! If you need a little … Continue reading Summer Running and a Giveaway!
There's no denying it: my family loves a good movie. One of our most cherished Christmas traditions is revisiting our favorite holiday movies every year. Sometimes we'll make a special treat to go along with it (Sticky Popcorn is always a favorite) but often we just pile into the living room and hit play. Here's … Continue reading Traditions: Christmas Movie Nights
I still remember the first year that my aunt and uncle decided not to come home for Christmas. Up to that point in my young life, Christmas had always revolved around Grandma's house, and there was no reason in my mind why it should change. Until it did. Christmas seemed smaller that year, and I … Continue reading Christmas Traditions: When Traditions Change
Happy #menumonday, friends! Can you believe it? Christmas week is here!! I'm excited, but it is a bit bittersweet. In a "normal" year, we'd be packing up this week and heading to Montana to visit family, but this year... Well, we are staying home. I'm a little relieved to not be traveling the passes this … Continue reading {Menu Monday 12.21.20}
I am a stickler for waiting for Christmas music until after Thanksgiving. My daughter, on the other hand, could play it year round if I would let her. My favorites include all those classic Christmas tunes: Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, and Karen Carpenter's velvet tones. There's even a great non-traditional song by Trisha Yearwood that … Continue reading Christmas Traditions: Songs
This weekend, we will bake. Food is a favorite way to celebrate and mark traditions around here. In a year when many other traditional ways we would celebrate aren't possible, we are holding tightly to this one. There will be literal piles of cookies in my kitchen. It makes me happy just thinking about it. … Continue reading Christmas Traditions: Food
This Nativity set once belonged to my Grandma. Now it belongs to my son. As children, both my son and I would play with it, rearranging it on the sideboard and retelling the Christmas story (sometimes adding a few characters). Storytellers are we. Around here, we're usually sticklers for doing all of our Christmas decorating … Continue reading Christmas Traditions: Decorating
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