The 5 weeks from Thanksgiving Day (in the U.S.) through Christmas and on to New Year’s Day are some of the busiest of the year for wives and moms. With extra shopping, cleaning, cooking and celebrating added to your already-busy schedule, you start to feel like the weight of the [continue reading]
Homemade Granola – The Easiest and Most Delicious Christmas Food Gift + Recipe
Are you stressed out about the Christmas food gifts you need to make for family, friends, teachers, co-workers or neighborhoods? In the past I always stressed about them; for some reason, making food gifts was one of my biggest stresses of the Christmas season. Most years, I started thinking, worrying and [continue reading]
3 Simple Ways to Make Your House Smell Like Christmas
I always want my home to smell good, but at Christmas I want it to smell great. In fact, I want my home to smell like Christmas. I want it to smell like my childhood home did, the one in which my mom stayed home, baked dozens of Christmas cookies, [continue reading]
How to Have Fun with Your Husband and Enjoy Your Marriage this Christmas
Although planning for Christmas and checking things off your list is important, making time to have fun with your husband is important too. I don’t want to get to New Year’s Day and realize that we haven’t done anything fun together since before Thanksgiving – and you probably don’t either! [continue reading]
Finding Joy in the Chaos of Christmas
Well, the Christmas season isn’t following the plan I laid out so neatly and carefully. My mother’s death, a year ago this week, is weighing heavily on me. The adopt-a-family project I’m coordinating at work has run into some roadblocks. The cabinet my husband is assembling is spread across the [continue reading]