Holiday

Car-oling, True Gifts, Some Bragging, and Thoughts on Hope

November 28, 2008

I have one absolute law about Christmas – absolutely no Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving. I believe in doing one holiday at a time, doing that holiday well, and then moving on to the next one. But once Thanksgiving is over, Christmas music plays several hours a day at our house. We’re totally [...]

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Beyond Black Friday – Gifts That Make a Difference

November 27, 2008

In our family, we have a rather dubious tradition on Thanksgiving Day of ‘running’ the Turkey Triathlon, which involves the three events of: eating entirely too much, watching NFL football, and pouring over the ‘sale papers’ (for the rest of you, those are the five metric tons of advertisements in the Thanksgiving Day newspapers in [...]

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