Kids today are growing up with countless options when it comes to toys, many of which we couldn’t even have dreamed would one day exist when we were little. There are high-tech toys, low-fi toys, toys that can tell you pretty much anything (thanks for rendering us obsolete, AI) — the list grows longer and more...
For years, my husband has thrown on his metaphorical Santa hat a few days before Christmas in a frantic rush to fill his sleigh with some of my favorite things. He usually stays pretty close to home — gathering all the goodies from our local town plaza. My gifts are typically heavy on bath products,...
My 10-year-old has always been a pretty practical, no-nonsense kind of kid, so I’ve always been surprised by how completely he’s leaned into the idea of Santa Claus. On Christmas Eve, he and his dad are glued to the Santa tracker, watching the sleigh make its stops around the world. He checks in with me...
Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Getty Images, Shutterstock Nothing feels warmer to me than a ‘90s Christmas. And I’m not good at psychoanalyzing, but even I know it’s because that’s the Christmas era of my childhood, and there was nothing more lovely than my mom decorating the Christmas tree, baking us cookies, and tucking us into bed...