by Tracy Polyak | Dec 4, 2011 | for Fun, for Good
I recently introduced Grasshopper, age 6, to a favorite Christmas video from my childhood, A Charlie Brown Christmas. In that video, a depressed Charlie Brown is given the assignment to obtain and decorate a Christmas tree for the children's Christmas play. But the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Nov 29, 2011 | for Fun, for Money
Black Friday has come and gone. (We slept in, decorated the house, and went to a movie.) Cyber Monday is history. (I spent a couple of hours using some of my very best online deals.) But if you think the bargains are gone, you're wrong. They've just begun! I've...
by Tracy Polyak | Nov 10, 2011 | for Fun, for Spirit
I always feel a little irked when Christmas is mentioned before Thanksgiving. But I wanted to share a fun Family Home Evening series that we do for Christmas in time for others who might want to do something similar. When my oldest was a baby, I decided that I wanted...
by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 24, 2010 | for Love, for Spirit
Every Christmas Eve we gather our family together to have a musical, spiritual remembrance of the real meaning of Christmas: Jesus Christ. We dress up (with bathrobes and sheets and towels and broom handles and foil crowns and anything else handy) and act out the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 23, 2010 | for Love, for Spirit
Rather than have a more traditional big holiday meal, on Christmas Eve, while reenacting the nativity, we have a shepherd's feast. We sit on a blanket on the family room floor and eat by the light of the fire. While the food isn't authentic to shepherd's of...
