DIY Cinnamon Christmas Ornaments
Krista Rao blogs about crafty adventures with her kids If you are like me, when you dig out your box of christmas ornaments your stomach drops as you notice there are significantly less ornaments than...
View Article3 Nature Based Crafts for Winter Solstice
Cool ways to commemorate ancient rituals for the shortest day of the year The traditions of pagan winter solstice provided the basis for many modern traditions like burning the Yule log at Christmas,...
View ArticleChristmas Morning Traditions Reinvented: Tearing Down the Stairs, Making...
Holiday habits feeling a little crusty? Check out these cool alternatives TRADITION #1: Making a wifesaver, the venerable Christmas morning casserole of cheese, bacon, ham, eggs and bread. HOW TO MAKE...
View Article6 Handmade Glitter-free DIY Ornaments
By Helen Spitzer So sorry, but this is Christmas hell to me. As someone who’s already raised one child and navigated her safely through the craft years, the sight of glitter chills me. Especially if...
View ArticleIngrid’s long-lost Swedish ginger cookies
My mom was known as the Gingerbread Lady. She spent over twenty years perfecting her cookie recipe, and then created her own custom baking business around it. She was famous for her perfect recreations...
View Articleone-hour (or less) DIY gifts
We are now in the thick of things. The lead-up to the most frenzied weekend of the year, the weekend before Christmas. As a family we decided to bow out of the rigmarole this year. We are spending the...
View ArticleA Slightly Ambivalent Christmas
By Brendan Murphy Recently, a friend on the Facebook was explaining the process of telling his kid that Santa wasn’t real. It was, like many things to do with parenting, quietly hilarious and...
View ArticleConscript in Santa’s Army
By Edward Keenan We’re driving along the Queensway to get burgers the other day — I’m in the passenger seat trying to find the radio station that only plays Christmas music because that’s the only...
View ArticleMy Christmas: Charlie Brown, kids, snow and a whiskey by the tree.
By Jim Bryson Here I sit on the 14th day of December: my youngest daughter Ursula has just gone down for a nap and my oldest daughter has reluctantly gone off to school in the mighty grade of JK. (This...
View ArticleMurray A. Lightburn, Christmas Dad
By Murray Lightburn I can barely recall Christmases from my childhood. I don’t really want to recall a great many things from (at least) the first 25 years or so of my life. Not that it was very bleak...
View ArticleDecorate Your Tree Yet? — For the Birds!
If you come over to our house this winter, chances are that the toddler will take you to the back door and show you the Dark-eyed Juncos dotting the snow, or maybe ‘Daddy Cardinal’. It wasn’t always...
View Article‘Hidden folk’ elves are all over Iceland
Forget the somewhat creepy and definitely over-done Elf on the Shelf. In Iceland, ‘hidden folk’ elves have been living throughout the Nordic country’s wilderness since Viking times — and they’ve got...
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