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Come with me to the heart and mind of a teenager experiencing Christmas in North Wisconsin. This is not a modern Christmas, but rather Christmas as experienced in the 1940s and 50s. We expected Christmas to be cold with lots of snow. If it wasn’t, what a disappointment. The white ...

This merry time of year always brings thoughts of traditions past and present to mind. Moses and Sweet Pea are a new addition to my family’s annual tradition of selecting a live tree to cut and decorate. The little farm where we have picked out a tree each year for ...

If you live in the parts of America where there’s snow, chances are, you’re dreaming of a white Christmas. For those of us living in a winter wonderland, snow is associated with the Christmas season. Making snow angels and snowballs during winter has almost become automatic for children. But in ...

I adore Christmas. I love everything about it. I love being able to go out to the store filled with the hustle and bustle of people doing their shopping, Christmas carols playing over the speakers in the stores and all the Christmas decorations all over. I also love to pull ...

I love the smell of fresh pine, so it’s a natural fit when the Holiday season comes around especially since I can purchase that delicious artificial pine smell to plug into my home creating a false atmosphere of Christmas. By tricking my senses a bit, I am drawn back into ...