This year has been a rough year, to say the least, for our family. My family is looking to change up/tweak our old traditions and add in some new after losing my sist...
I am due Labor Day weekend (haha) first time mom and my DH's only sib is getting married 10/06/12. We've already decided baby is not going, due to being so young, ge...
Okay, I don't normally plan this much in advance, but it's something that's really monopolizing my thoughts at this post-holiday time... I have a 5 year old boy who ...
The holidays are approaching and I have a bit of an issue. I was raised in a household that did not use foul language so the children learned by example that bad word...
Every year... the same dreadful feelings sneak their way back into my life. I do not look forward to the holidays or more accurately, planning for the holidays or th...
So I drop by my mother's to visit my brother and sister in law and neice who just moved here from out of state and are staying with her. No one was home. So I stop ...
Years ago, my brothers and all our spouses agreed to rotate holidays (ex: Thanksgiving with our side, Christmas with the spouse family, and flip-flop the next year). ...
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the holidays. I don't mind going to see extended family on a different day, but I have gotten to where I insist that the day of be just about the ...
So my 19 month old spent the majority of the weekend with our 8 yr old niece- circus Sat. morning, family party Sat. night, and Sunday my husband took them both to th...
I am a member of a rather large family who gathers for birthdays (and there are a lot of them!) My frustration occurs when I go to buy gifts for extended family memb...
