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What’s Up With Christmas In July? While it seems like a marketer’s mad dream run amok, Christmas in July actually started in 1933 at the Keystone Camp for Girls in Brevard, North Carolina. Co-founder Fanny Holt dreamed up the notion as … Continue readingWhat’s Up With Christmas In July?
Yuletide Bride I can’t really think about June without relating it to brides, but a lot of people like getting married around the holidays. Is there anything more festive and enduringly charming than a Winter Wonderland Wedding? The great thing … Continue readingYuletide Bride
Eco Friendly Christmas Ideas Thinking about Christmas, we think of a stack of gifts piled under the tree. Nobody really thinks about the waste generated. Most of it is in the form of gift wrap and product packaging. According to … Continue readingEco Friendly Christmas Ideas
Outdoor Family Fun To Wrap Up The Christmas Season During the winter it’s easy to hole up inside like a pack of bears hibernating. However, humans are not bears and there’s a lot of fun to be had outside. This … Continue readingOutdoor Family Fun To Wrap Up The Christmas Season
Pork and Sauerkraut Happy New Year! I can’t think of anything more traditional for New Year’s Day than good ol’ Pork and Sauerkraut! Where I grew up was on the border between the outskirts of Philadelphia and the eastern reaches … Continue readingPork and Sauerkraut
Xmas Heroes – Parents What would Christmas be without parents? As much as Christmas has become a child-focused affair, it really depends on the parents to bring the magic to the holiday. Having been on both sides of the spectrum, … Continue readingXmas Heroes – Parents
Trivia Day and Spaghetti Day Christmastime is quickly slipping away and we’ve only got a little bit of the magic left to share. So, why not sit the family down around a bowl of spaghetti and play some trivia games? … Continue readingTrivia Day and Spaghetti Day
Fruitcake Toss Day and Buffet Day We’re tripping happily along through the Christmas season and today we’ve got a very silly holiday to celebrate. Tossing fruitcakes is a hungry business, so it’s best to follow it up with a trip … Continue readingFruitcake Toss Day and Buffet Day
New Year’s Day Some people start off with traditional dishes or festive parades and others simply start off with a hangover. Either way, it’s your day to start anew! Hangovers Sadly, some people get a bit carried away on New … Continue readingNew Year’s Day
New Year’s Eve Here’s the final day of 2015. As we’ve been reflecting on our year and looking forward to the next, it’s time for one last look before the year slips away. It’s a tradition to ring in the … Continue readingNew Year’s Eve