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Mother Writes Lovely Blog About her Preemie

Every once in a while, it is nice to read a lovely blog that a mother has written about her child. There is a blog called Micro-Preemie to Miracle that mom Sarah Bollinger started about her son, Everett, who was born at 15 weeks premature. He’s come a long way! I always find stories about preemies to be very interesting. There is something fascinating about the story of a teeny, tiny, baby that struggles to grow and thrive. Often, their stories are uplifting and inspiring. It is nice to read something positive! Last December, I wrote about a preemie named … Continue reading →

Reasons to Take Good Care of Your Christmas Tree

When does your family put up the Christmas tree? Some families decorate the tree before Thanksgiving, and others wait until a few days before Christmas to do it. The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety wants to remind you to take good care of your Christmas tree. There is the potential that a Christmas tree could catch fire. Many families have made a tradition of picking out a Christmas tree, and decorating it together. The tree is a big part of the season. What else would you put all those presents under? People have a tendency to think of … Continue reading →

Some Kids With Autism May Not Understand Christmas

In general, kids who have an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) tend to have difficulty with social concepts. Many kids with an ASD can be extremely logical in their thought processes. Together, this can make it hard for them to understand the connections between Santa, Christ, and the Christmas traditions that most families participate in. Every year, there are a lot of little kids who are excited by the prospect of Santa coming to their house on Christmas Eve. Parents tell their children about Santa, and the youngest kids believe with all their hearts that Santa is real. When they get … Continue reading →

The Best Tradition of Christmas: Being Together

Christmas traditions in my family have changed over the years. When the kids were little, we always opened gifts on Christmas Eve. Now they receive money ahead of time and get to spend it however they wish. My youngest spends it as soon as it touches his fingers, my daughter waits until she can get to the mall and my oldest holds onto it for a while. Another tradition we had when they were younger was to read stories like “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Now we play games like Uno, Apples to Apples or Catch Phrase. We used to … Continue reading →

Christmas is Filled With Family Heirlooms

Every family will have at least a few items that are considered to be heirlooms. Although some of those items may have financial value, most of the time they are important because of the memories and family history that they remind genealogists of. Christmas is a holiday that is filled with many heirlooms. What is an heirloom? According to the Free Online Dictionary, and heirloom is “a valued possession passed down in a family through succeeding generations”. Most families have some heirlooms that are treasured, preserved, and shared with future generations. It is possible that the heirlooms that have been … Continue reading →

Christmas Tree Science

Ah, Christmas. It’s a time for relaxation, for family, and for exploring your mad scientist. Yes? Well, we all know that cats view the Christmas Tree as a physics experiment. Now you can experiment with your Christmas tree too! Christmas trees look very different. A number of the true firs work very well as a Christmas tree because they have widely-spaced branches, perfect for hanging ornaments. If you don’t know what kind of tree you have, find out! Learn about the history of your tree. Read stories about trees as habitat. The Night Tree by Eve Bunting and The Little … Continue reading →

Getting Into the Christmas Spirit

Now that Thanksgiving is over and Advent has officially begun, my family is really getting into the Christmas spirit. It also helps that we put up our tree yesterday. Fa-la-la-la-la and ho, ho, ho! It’s off to create memorable holiday scrapbooks I go. Every year I swear that I am going to be more organized when it comes to collecting material for my Christmas scrapbook. I’m tired of creating the same, boring timeline of events: buying the tree, decorating it, baking cookies, listing presents everyone received, blah, blah, blah. It seems all of my layouts blur into one. They all … Continue reading →

Christmas Traditions

Thanksgiving has finally arrived and now thoughts can turn towards Christmas. That is, unless you have already been thinking of Christmas since Halloween. I on the other hand am following Nordstrom’s lead. In case you missed it, Nordstrom had a sign that said the store wouldn’t be decking its halls until November 27th because it liked the idea of celebrating one holiday at a time. But now the time is here and I am ready for some Christmas spirit. I was thinking today about Christmas traditions. My family and I have a somewhat odd one – on Thanksgiving, we watch … Continue reading →

Daughter Connects With Long Lost Father This Christmas

A twenty-nine year old woman was able to meet her biological father for the first time, thanks to the power of the social networking website called Facebook. The two met in person very recently, right before Christmas. One unexpected result of this reunion was that the biological parents of the twenty-nine year old woman were able to rekindle their romance with each other. Twenty-nine year old Shaheen Schneider had never met her father. Shaheen’s mother, Lisa Ketting, said that she and Shaheen’s father were very young when they had a relationship with each other. When Lisa became pregnant, she decided … Continue reading →

Does Your Family Have Christmas Heirlooms?

Christmas involves a lot of “stuff”. There are Christmas ornaments, which seem to multiply every year. There are stockings, cards, and special wrapping paper. There are gifts to be given, and some of them might have been handmade by your grandmother. These heirlooms are a physical representation of family stories and family history, and are of special importance to a genealogist. I have several Christmas ornaments that were handmade by my grandmother. I remember watching her make some of them. There are angels made out of some kind of white, braided, craft rope, which was unraveled to make the skirts. … Continue reading →