This is another challenging one for me because I am not the same person I have been for the past forty years or so of my life. In the past, I would have said hot chocolate, eggnog, Christmas punch, apple cider, and a whole host of other sugary Christmas drinks. But those don’t appeal to me the way they used […]

I am pleased to say that I no longer need to travel for the holidays and haven’t for many years. It is one of the perks of living with my parents. However, back in the day, I traveled almost every year for the holidays! Whether I was in school in Florida, teaching in Florida or Texas, it made no difference. […]

This is a super difficult one for me to answer! I don’t think I have a really great answer because I have become a totally different person this year than I have ever been in all my years of Christmas past. But I will do my best to answer here. For me, my favorite Christmas foods have always been bread. […]

In our household, stockings have ALWAYS been a big deal. When my mom had her own knitting machine business, she knitted stockings for the entire family(our pets, too!). Over the years, we replaced our stockings at different times. We used to have a beautiful, old fireplace in our Victorian home in Tacoma, Washington, and hanging the stockings on that mantle […]

In our family, we always have opened our Christmas presents on Christmas morning. As a child, I never liked waiting until my parents were up (or my lazy brother!), but we always survived. Before we opened our gifts, my dad would read the Christmas story from the Bible (I didn’t always appreciate that either!). We typically had some kind of […]

I used to make cards on the computer and before that, I made them by hand or I bought them at the store (my preferred method). I remember those giant cards were always so special. I never received one, but would you believe I gave one? Yep! And my favorites were always the musical cards. Give me a card that […]

To be honest, I rarely struggle that much with buying gifts. I tend to think outside the box, and somehow I seem to figure out what will be a good gift for someone. For the most part. That being said, my biggest struggle is my two nieces. I know their preference would be to receive gift cards, but I absolutely […]

A prompt like this can be a complicated question because, as much as I enjoy real Christmas trees, they are also very messy and can even be fire hazards. That being said, I have only had a real tree, maybe two or three times in my life. And I must admit that I wouldn’t trade the ease of an artificial […]

Holiday scents…oh, there are so many heavenly ones I could list, and at first glance, it might be challenging to pick a favorite one. But after mulling it over for a relatively short time, I knew what my favorite holiday scent was and even why I chose that one. Baking and Christmas are intertwined in my mind, and holiday bread […]

I remember when I first started blogging because I used a rather simple platform which afforded me only the most minimal technological tools to help shape and promote my blog posts. I remember when there was no automation, no massive social media tools, and word-of-mouth was usually the way bloggers got the word out about their new columns. In fact, […]