• Family Traditions for the Holidays

    Do You Have Family Traditions For the Holidays? Family traditions for the holidays vary as greatly as the families who keep them. I love hearing how other families celebrate the holidays.  All the different cultures, regions, and circumstances represented by my friends make for some really different and interesting holiday traditions!  The one commonality though seems to be faith, family, friends… and of course FOOD! Whether you celebrate with a fantastic home-cooked feast, or Chinese Take-Out; Whether you spend a quiet day at home reading and eating chocolates (this is a real thing!!), or you spend it packed together with the loud roar of LOTS of extended family and friends, and…

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    Gratitude Builders For Kids of All Ages

    ~Gratitude Builders ~         For Families “The root of joy is gratefulness…It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”  ― David Steindl-Rast After a bit of a bumpy week, I want to be flooded with gratitude! Truth be told, I’m thinking about those sweet faces in the picture above, and all the friends I am missing from the time we lived in Peru. I know I need to turn the melancholy feeling toward gratitude & I’m hoping in digging out some fun ideas to share this week, I’ll do just that! ‘Tis the season to reflect on all we have to…