Read MoreAs years pass, memories are like precious gifts.
As we begin this holiday season, I wanted to share a simple memory our children delighted in over the years.
The Gingerbread Man Christmas Garland is a simple home-made Advent Calendar.
My children still remember the thrill of bounding down to the kitchen each morning in December and gazing up at the numbered gingerbread men – until being reminded whose turn it was to open the one for that day. I’m not sure when I first started the tradition, but I learned a few lessons along the way which I will share.
In the deep mid-winter, a soup to warm and soothe. Not a simple soup, but a soup that is simply fantastic.
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It was such a simple request. My son Ryan wanted a hamster. I shuddered at the thought. I imagined the small pointy-snouted rodents that my childhood cat, Tracy, smuggled into our house when I was young; the captured victims that he would delight in pawing up to the highest point on the slanted dining room table leg and watch slide down. Over and over. Until the body lay limp from fright and exhaustion.
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