Category: Holidays
Holiday Blues | Are You Just Overwhelmed or Could You Be Depressed?
The holidays are stressful for most of us. We’re running around to different events, we’re maxing out our bank accounts on gifts that we don’t even know if the people on our list will like and we’re exhausted. No wonder we feel overwhelmed, right? However, for many people–some even close to us–the holidays are [...]
5 Ways to Save Your Sanity This Holiday Season
Sometimes I wonder why we so look forward to the holidays. I mean, if you think about it, you see the holidays as one far-too-long family intervention. And those are so much fun. Sure, we get to see our loved ones, and obviously, since they are our loved ones, we have some kind of [...]
5 Unique Gifts for the Hard-to-Buy List
We all have them on our list, the names that we stare at and think, “What in the world am I going to get them?!” Maybe it’s because those hard-t0-buy-for people on your list have everything. Or, maybe it’s because they never like anything you get them. No matter, check out some of these [...]
Holiday Giving | 4 Inexpensive Gift Ideas for Your Child’s Teacher
The holiday season is here, and that means gift-buying, not only for our families, but for the other special people in our lives. We always make it a point at Christmas to get something to show our appreciation to our sons’ teachers. We’re blessed to have truly wonderful teachers working with our children, and [...]
View from Behind the Beard | One Dad’s Story on Being Santa
As I stare out on the crowd of hundreds of cheering children and their families, gathered around the courthouse square, there are wisps of synthetic white hair tickling my eyes. My glasses hang delicately, on the end of my nose, threatening to slip off at any moment. As the crowd counts down, three… two… [...]
