I’m sitting in my office staring out my window. All I can see is snow. The cold is radiating from my windows like a living being. I feel it in my fingers. I feel it in my toes. I can’t get warm. There is nothing I detest more than the cold. You know the people who say they love the… View Post
A Tradition 30 Years in the Making – Baking Holiday Wreaths
Every single year, I make myself crazy trying to fit too much in to the 30 days surrounding Christmas. I always have these grand ideas about my personal capacity to buy presents and wrap them, to attend parties, to decorate, to bake and yes, to experience the magic in every moment. I really, REALLY want to spend time just sitting… View Post
7 Tips for Dealing with the Young Picky Eater in Your Family
A treasured Guest Post from ExtraordinaryMommy friend, Katie Bugbee. There was a time when my kids thought chicken only came in one form — nuggets. Pasta always had orange cheese on it. And everything had to be dipped in ketchup. My kids eat at 5:00. My husband and I eat at 8. So either our nanny or we end up making… View Post
Allow Time For Awe – 7 Ways to Embrace The Final Weeks Before Christmas
Fifteen days. 360 hours. That’s how much time there is between now and Christmas. I can tell you right now, RIGHT NOW, that isn’t enough time to do everything I had in my head that I wanted to do – present buying and wrapping, baking, mailing, online ordering, more decorating, card addressing….oh and everything life, family and work. *sigh* Not… View Post
8 Tips for Decorating Your Mantle for the Holidays
It isn’t just that red is my favorite color. Or that red and silver are stunning together. Or that my small people morph into magic beings this time of year, their eyes perpetually wide, their jaw permanently open in wonder… (though that last one could have a little to do with it). Quite simply, I adore the holidays. And the… View Post
5 Ways to Keep the Magic Alive and Stress Free This Holiday Season
There is that hush-hush conversation that starts to happen around this time of year among parents of children of a ‘certain age’. How much longer do we have? How many more years of the magic …of that deep-set belief in all things glorious surrounding the holidays do we possibly have. I, for one, am clinging to it the way my… View Post
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