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...
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...
ProfessionalStudioImages/E+/Getty Images If anyone needs to be celebrated in the month of December, it’s the caregivers. Being a mom of two, I understand the pressure we endure during the holiday season. There’s decorating the house, fulfilling Christmas lists, participating in the dreaded school themed dress-up weeks, baking cookies, and wrapping all the gifts. It’s challenging....
Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Shutterstock, Stocksy I’m a little late to the holiday decorating game; a week into December and I am frantically rummaging around my attic to find all the boxes I could have sworn I labeled last year. But it’s not surprising, because with four kids, a dog, a change of season and a...