Dedicated to getting you in the Christmas mood!
One of my favorite memories of Christmas is making cookies with my family. Admittedly, my memory was actually of frosting, decorating, and EATING the cookies. My mom performed the hardest part, making the cookie dough, rolling it with a rolling pin, cutting out the cookies, and baking them. As we children got older, we also [...]
Christmas is my very favorite holiday. I look forward to it each year and try to make it as special for my children as my parents did for me. In recent years, however, there seems to be some agitation between various religious groups surrounding the holiday. When I was Director of Marketing for a nonprofit [...]
“On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree…” We all know the lyrics to this fun song. But do we know its origin? What is the significance of a “partridge in a pear tree” or of “five gold rings”? There seem to be 2 different [...]
Christmas has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1870, but it was not a holiday in early America. Celebrating Christmas, in fact, was outlawed in Boston from 1659 to 1681. This was a result of Puritan ideas and religious reform. Then in the 19th century things began to change. Previously, Christmas celebrations [...]