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Holiday Traditions
The holidays are our favorite because of all of the fun traditions that come along with them! Our mom is the Queen of Christmas so we grew up doing all of the fun things and we have managed to keep a lot of it up for nearly 40 years. So if you by chance are looking for a fun tradition to add to your holiday itinerary, here are a few of our family favorites, including a pajama fashion show of Christmases past! Matching Pajamas on Christmas Eve One of my very favorite Christmas traditions is matching pajamas. I know matching family pjs are all the rage now, but our mother…
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Here’s whats going in our kids stockings!
Every year our mom stuffs our kids stockings (talked about it in our holiday traditions post here) but this year because of Covid we have to be big girls and buy our own stocking stuffers! We had some big Santa boots to fill but I think we did pretty well! My personal goal was to buy things the boys will actually use and not immediately end up at the bottom of one of our many toy bins. We shall see. All the things we have bought for Jack’s stocking (18 months), Joe’s stocking (4 years old), and Sam and Emma’s stockings (turn 8 on 1/3!) are listed below. All items…
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Juneteenth
About a week ago, The New York Times Cooking newsletter showed up in my email inbox including a very pretty picture of a strawberry cocktail and a link to Nicole Taylor’s story entitled “A Juneteenth of Joy and Resistance”. Admittedly, it’s the picture of the strawberry cocktail that caused me to open the email, read the newsletter and then clink on the link. Nicole Taylor’s story describes how the coronavirus and protests over the killing of George Floyd have complicated the upcoming celebration of Juneteenth, the June 19th holiday that honors the day in 1865 when, Taylor writes, enslaved Africans in Galveston, Texas, learned from Union soldiers that they were free, two years…
