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The Ten Best Stocking Stuffers
Buying presents for some people can be a very difficult task, especially when you buy presents for them year after year. When you add the concept of then having to get stocking stuffers on top of that the whole holiday season can seem daunting ...
Kid-Proofing the Christmas Tree
Growing up, I always had a Christmas tree. When I was little, I don't recall considering pulling it over or removing (and eating) the ornaments on it, but those of us with kids know those are the serious risks we take when we engage in one of the ...
Taking the Kids to see Santa
Will you be taking the kids to see Santa Claus this year? I know I will. My son will be about twenty months old this Christmas, which I think is about the right time to start in on an ages-old tradition. That tradition includes a lot of magic, ...
Baby's first haircut
Now is the time, in my young son's life, and my new life as a mommy, when all the milestones of oohs and ahs are upon us. We're approaching his first birthday, the mark of one year together. It hardly seems possible that he has only been a part of ...
Holiday card dash
This week we're doing the holiday card dash. Back before we had the kiddo my husband and I engaged in the popular annual tradition of sending holiday cards to friends and family across the country. For a good number of these people exchanging cards ...
Pregnancy: when do you share the good news?
It's no surprise Christina Aguilera is refusing to comment on whether or not she is pregnant. If she is, time--and the media--will certainly tell. Tradition holds, in this country anyway, that a woman does not share her good news until she is past ...
Blogging Baby Sleepover for Sunday, December 24 -- Christmas Eve
For us, having Christmas on a Monday works out well. The garbage will be picked up in the morning so we'll have plenty of room in the cans come the end of the day. Lots of room in the blue can for wrapping paper and empty wine bottles, space in the ...
Merry...whatever
I was going to be one kind of parent back in 1996, when I was pregnant with my first kid. I was going to be financially stable and have a house of my own and be happily married and have matching dinnerware, maybe even a family dog. I'd have figured ...
Annual letters from the kids on NPR
Jeff Horwich from Minnesota Public Radio wondered, if the kids wrote the traditional annual family letter, what would they talk about? A couple of the highlights: "People don't call me little kid, and I feel like I stand up to bullies ...
I am officially the laziest person in my country this Christmas
Yesterday, you might remember me whinging about the fact that I had way too much to do, and far to little time in which to do it. I moaned about shopping, I moaned about having to clean, I moaned about having to cook -- I even moaned about the ...
Epicurious.com: Christmas feasts around the world
Whew! Just got back from our grocery store run, and can I tell you horribly crowded the place was? Horribly crowded. It took us an hour standing in line just to check out (Alex, to her credit, handled the long boring wait in a ...











