So it’s a busy week and I didn’t get my post done early – but I’ll share with you a couple of new Christmas traditions as a mommy! A couple of years ago I really wanted to bake cookies.  My mom has cookie baking with her grandkids – but our schedules never coincide for us to be able to get together with Curly and Georgie.  So I started making cookies and having my niece & nephew, Moe & Larry, help decorate...

Yesterday I wrote about the childhood Christmas traditions I celebrated with my family. Today I’m writing about my Christmas remembrances as a teenager… As we got older, of course my mom was able to incorporate us into some of the holiday preparations – and this is when Christmas REALLY got fun for me. Through the years, my mom had collected BOXES and boxes (and boxes) of Christmas decorations and collectibles that always came...

Oh how I loved Christmas! My earliest memory of Christmas was when my family lived in Long Beach, California.  I can remember walking outside with my mom and looking up at the sky seeing red flashing lights and just KNOWING it was Rudolph leading the sleigh as Santa was coming!!! We had real Christmas trees for a few years – with those great big bulbs that (if I remember correctly) clipped onto the branches of the trees.  They were HUGE...