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Christmas

Here’s to hope, and hugging my grown son this year

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I wonder if this is the year I’ll get to invite my son inside. By Kathi Valeii

January 11, 2021 Culture, Family

Why I don’t want to tell my 14-year-old the truth about Santa

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With an IQ of 70, I don’t think he has the capacity for figuring it out on his own. By Laurie Foos

December 23, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Why Christmas cookies are bittersweet to my brother and me

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In our small town everyone talked about everyone else’s business, but no one talked to us about why our mom was sick. 
By Elizabeth Creaswick

December 21, 2020 Parenting Challenges

The holidays are here, but my mother is not

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I order turkey, I plan to bake pies. The tears make my head pound but they will not fall. By Brianne DeRosa

December 16, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Making toffee at the holidays with the woman I never knew

old recipe card for English toffee
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As I open my fifth holiday season as a single woman and a mother of three, I watch the butter and sugar vanish into one another again. By Samantha Shanley

December 10, 2020 Family

Learning to make my mother’s holiday cookies again

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I ignored her recipe for many years as a way to avoid the loss. By Marcia Kester Doyle

December 12, 2019 Parenting Challenges

The Santa myth is hard work and I won’t miss it

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As much as I love Christmas, without Santa I felt only glee and relief at the massive reduction in my December workload. By Michelle Deininger

December 4, 2019 Culture, Family

The day my stepson said I love you

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Already in love with the boy’s father, I wanted to build something special with his son too.
By Hillary Vaillancourt

September 7, 2017 Family, Parenting Challenges
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