I have written several times before about date night and how important it is for us, especially while we’re in the little kid years. In this post, I wrote this: We are married; we live together. We are moving in the same direction with the same goals. We care for the same people in the same space. […]
101 Best Christmas Books for Kids
As you already know, we are huge readers. We read every single day and listen to audio books in the car. I put together this list of top-rated Christmas books for kids to share with you. I haven’t read every one, so I included some I didn’t know that had 4 or 5 stars in the […]
12 Things to See at Hersheypark Christmas Candyland
My family is a warm weather crowd. We don’t particularly like to go sledding or skiing or even hiking out in the cold. It’s just not our cup of tea. Thus, even though we’ve had season passes to Hersheypark for years, we have never gone during Christmas Candylane. Not even once. We go in the […]
10 Ways to Keep Christ in Christmas
I have said often that I am okay having Santa Claus deliver big piles of gifts on Christmas Eve because I am confident that my kids know why we’re celebrating to begin with. But how do they know? It’s not like any child pauses in the middle of tearing wrapping paper to reflect on Jesus and […]
10 Ways to Count Down to Christmas
Do you know what Advent is? It officially begins this coming Sunday, November 29. Advent is the season of waiting for Christmas. It begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and ends on Christmas Eve, but some people celebrate it just from December 1 to 24. No matter when you observe it, Advent is a time […]
8 Christmas Eve Traditions to Start This Year
Tradition says that everyone puts out cookies and milk for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. Do you? We have a Cookies for Santa plate and a Carrots for the Reindeer plate, but we don’t usually remember to put them out. Sacrilege, right?! We just forget because we have other fun things going on. So many, […]
