X/@The_Acumen Once kids grow up, start their own lives, and meet their partners, things change when it comes to family dynamics. This is obvious. Part of those changes typically surround the holiday season. When I got married, my husband and I had to discuss the logistics of where we were going for the holidays. Do...
Category: holidays
Actually, Socks Are An Amazing Christmas Gift
When you were a kid, socks were probably the last thing you wanted for Christmas — about one step up from an actual lump of coal. You wanted Barbies! A zillion pieces of chocolate! My Little Ponies! Or, once you got to be a too-cool-for-school tween, an inflatable chair and some of that St. Ives...
Hanson's 'Snowed In' Is The Absolute Best Christmas Album
Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Stocksy, Spotify, Getty Images, Courtesy of Ashley Ziegler We all have those holiday songs where simply hearing the first few notes is enough to fill our souls with a unique sense of joy that you just don’t get any other time of the year. Mariah Carey’s iconic "All I Want for Christmas...
Christmas Movie Dads Need To Do Better
Universal Pictures If there’s one thing we, as a society, can all agree on, it’s the pure joy that comes from watching a Christmas movie. It doesn’t matter if you’ve watched it a billion times or even multiple times in one day (a distinct possibility if you’re the parent of a toddler); there’s truly nothing...


