Christmas Shopping Strategies

Shopping seems easy enough; go into a store, find something your friend would like, and buy it… That works most of the time but shopping at Christmas can be a joyous occasion or it can be a nightmare! Employing a few tried and true shopping strategies can make shopping easier during the holidays. Doing these…

Christmas Pageant or Holiday Concert?

Christmas pageants and Christmas concerts have almost gone the way of the dinosaurs in this era of extreme political correctness. We have Winter Celebrations or “Holiday Concerts.” I, for one, have really fond memories of Christmas Pageants. Actual Christmas Pageants (even though our family wasn’t religious and didn’t go to Church). I have a picture…

(Sometimes) Holiday Traditions

Each year I like to try out something new around the holidays and see if it is something we would like to do again the next year and develop it into a new holiday tradition. The Great Dickens Christmas Fair – We went to the Dickens Fair a few years ago and brought all the…

Favorite Christmas Traditions

I love the holidays, not because it smells good or the decorations around town are fun to see, but because there are so many holiday traditions. I love traditions and could probably stand to let a few go, but which ones? I’ve got a few favorite holiday traditions that I hold dear and will probably…