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Holiday Traditions
Asked by K.B. from Chicago
on August 30, 2009
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I'm starting to think more about what traditions we want to do at holiday gatherings. I'm realizing that it's my turn to start creating some of these memories for my f...
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- We just started this one. One of the uncles dresses up as Santa and walks around the outside of the house with his back to the windows like he's looking in the sky. ...
- My earliest childhood memories of Christmas always included the annual train ride to the city. We would meet at the train station (it started as my parents, the 6 of u...
- The only tradition I've established is doing what works on any given year! I mean, we celebrate Halloween by dressing up and going Trick-or-Treating, Fourth of July wi...
Family Traditions
Asked by L.M. from Milwaukee
on August 15, 2007
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HI All-
I have two young children and looking to incorporate more traditions into our family. after all, it's those corny/funny things you do every year that make th...
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- Hi there! :) I, too, have been looking for traditions to carry on with my children. Here are a few I remember most from growing up: New Years Eve - Mom and Dad w...
- My tradition is at Christmas and I know it will sound corny, but we all have a fun time with it and I think others might too. I give a gag gift to everyone and write "...
- Hi, L.! Some of the best traditions happen by accident....when my kids were little, I always gave them underwear for Christmas. It was something they needed and anot...
Family Christmas Traditions
Asked by T.L. from Dallas
on December 5, 2008
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Hi Mamas! Can you share your family Christmas traditions? Last year I started baking Christmas cookies with my children. I let them do the dough and cut out their own ...
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- We adopt angels at Christmas - but I don't go all out on their birthday either. I'm trying to grow nice human beings, not the materialistic little consumers I see in ...
- We have a party every Christmas Eve. It started when they were very young and it was just immediate family. We don't eat an official dinner....we serve everyone's favo...
- We always go to the movies on Christmas Day while dinner is cooking in the oven.
What Is the Tooth Fairy Leaving Under Pillows These Days?
Asked by J.S. from Lexington
on July 3, 2009
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Our 5 year old is very excited about her wiggly incisor. I'm thinking we've got about a week before she loses it. However if she can work it out I'm sure it will be go...
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- My daughter is almost 5 1/2 and is super excited about her two wiggly bottom teeth, too! I have a letter printed out and ready from the Tooth Fairy. A letter that is s...
- My six year old just lost a tooth yesterday- we pulled it out and then he lost it but I was able to find it. Anyway, the tooth fairy left him $5 and a red wooden hear...
- I haven't read the other responses - but for the first tooth the tooth fairy left a note written on a piece of paper I cut out shaped like a tooth (congrats on losing ...
Break Christmas Tradition??
Asked by M.C. from Honolulu
on August 13, 2009
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Hi Moms
Every year since I can remember, I bake Christmas cookies. (lots and lots of them, all different kinds!) I have had fun with my kids keeping this tradition, p...
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- Hi Mary Beth, In don't think you need to break your Christmas Tradition, I am sure your thoughtfulness, is very much appreciated every year, and think how you make peo...
- Its only 1 time a year... if you can stand it, just enjoy it as you usually do... traditionally. You said your healthy kick was adopted s-l-o-w-l-y... so don't expect...
- Mary Beth, I agree with most of the other posts - make your cookies, enjoy the time with your family and friends, it's once a year! However, if you REALLY feel g...
Any Half-birthday Traditions?
Asked by C.K. from Washington DC
on August 13, 2009
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My son turns 4.5 on Sunday. I was thinking of making some cupcakes and a putting them out on a card table on our driveway so that he could offer them to his neighborho...
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- Just wanted to say that I liked Jennifer J's idea... very clever and fun. I'd merge that idea with a "giving" idea. AND there is NOTHINg wrong with celebrating half...
- Our kids are still a little young, but I have every intention of celebrating half birthdays. We plan that the child having a half birthday will get to pick dinner and ...
- Normally I would say no, don't celebrate a half birthday because you don't want them growing up feeling entitled to extra birthday celebrations and extra anything else...
Christmas Eve...Just the 4 of Us!
Asked by E.S. from Chicago
on December 4, 2008
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Neither my husband nor I are from here, so we are always traveling over the holidays. Since my husband won't be able to take much time off work over the holidays this...
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- E., your post doesn't say which city you live in but at your childrens ages any streets will do. Take the kids and look at the lights. listen for santa's reindeer. ...
- When my children were small, under 5 we were visiting relatives every year on Christmas Eve. Because there were such a large qroup of adults and older children durin...
- Your children are little yet, but when our girls were older, we would go downtown Chicago to go ice skating and look at the Christmas windows. We brought a thermos of...
Anyone Familiar with the UTD Callier Center?
Asked by L.S. from Dallas
on January 21, 2007
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I was wondering if anyone is familiar with the Callier Center in either Richardson or Dallas. Specifically, I'm interested in their SMile program for my almost 27 mon...
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- I am not too famliar with UTD for speech but know if a resource that will come to your home and help you with strategies in your son's natural environment. The evalua...
- Is 60 words for a 27 month old considered not normal?
- Hi L., I taught special ed (mostly working with students with autism) before staying home with my boys and even though I haven't had any personal experience with Ca...
Looking for Church
Asked by K.M. from Austin
on May 27, 2008
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Good morning Ladies,
I am looking for a church, I live in Cedar Park, but the church doesn't even have to be that close. We just would really like to find a Word ch...
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- We are in Avery Ranch. We have also attended churches that were more about man-made rules and regulations than the gospel. We now attend the Hill Country Bible Churc...
- HI K., My family and I attend Celebration Church in Round Rock. Their physical address says it is in Georgetown, TX but the church is actually right by the new outl...
- Hi K., I have been visiting churches myself in the Cedar Park area. I have found that the pastor at Shoreline church is awesome! You should be able to go onto the...
Ideas for First Day of School Traditions??
Asked by S.S. from Orlando
on August 5, 2009
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My daughter is starting kindergarten this year. She went to Pre-K at a center, but since she's starting school at a big girl school, I really want to do something extr...
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- Most schools serve breakfast in the morning. If you drive her to school, why not stay a little while & eat with her in the morning? If you don't want to eat, then just...
- New shoes and a lunch box. Will never forget picking them out with my Mom.
- Ok, so I guess I will be repetitive - but, my mom ALWAYS took a picture on the first day of school just as we were getting ready to leave. I remember being in high sch...
