Dobrila Vignjevic/E+/Getty Images The influencer gift guides started early this year — I saw some hocking their Amazon storefronts for stocking stuffers back in October — and they all look virtually the same. Gift guides for him include bluetooth speakers and hoodies and fancy sneakers. Gift guides for her are full of coffee table books (please...
Category: holidays2024
My Kids Figured Out Santa Isn't Real By Analyzing My Handwriting
Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Shutterstock, Getty Images Let me set the scene for you. In the previous six hours, my 7- and 9-year-old daughters binged on Netflix while I was draped across the couch like a lifeless sardine, glazed eyes staring upward. I felt bad about using screen time to babysit my children while COVID ravaged...
We're Ditching the Family Celebrations This Year & I Don't Feel Guilty About It
Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Shutterstock, Getty Images The holidays have always been a blissful season of joy, celebration, and spending time with the people I love most. For the last three and a half-ish decades I can’t remember a holiday season where I wasn’t headed to my mom’s side of the family on Christmas Eve and...
I'm Putting "From Mom" On My Kids' Christmas Presents This Year
AleksandarNakic/E+/Getty Images It started when I was a kid. After my siblings and I stopped believing in Santa, our Christmas presents would be labeled, “From Mom & Dad” — in my mom’s handwriting, of course. And while I was pretty aware that my mom was fully in charge of the Christmas magic in my house...