Articles tagged with: Holidays
The bumpy ivory sculpture shone in diffused sunlight from the lead-glass window. “What is it?” I asked my then-boyfriend. “A butter lamb. Man, I love these—it’s been blessed by the priest. It’s a family tradition.”
I smiled. At 19 years old, this was my first Easter, and I had no idea what to expect. Dressed in a borrowed silk Liz Claiborne dress (my mother’s), I was on my best behavior,…
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A friend of mine posted a photo of Valentine’s candy on a store shelf on Facebook on December 26. Seriously, the Holidays are over already? Hold on for a moment, I am still feeling the Christmas spirit. If you feel the same, then this winter break activity is perfect to make the cheer linger a little longer: Make a scrapbook with your kids to capture this year’s Holiday memories!
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Or… How to ditch the glaze packet and create a showstopping centerpiece for your family’s Christmas dinner
So you’ve brought home your ham from the store and it’s resting on your counter, a huge hunk of meat that will either bring ethereal delight to your eager family’s taste buds or become an overly sweet, dry roast, barely touched, relegated the following day to a very expensive split-pea soup.
Though that soup…
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Five seasonal menus reflect the fun and spirit of the season for families of all faiths
Now that the Thanksgiving serving platters and gravy boats have been washed, dried and spirited away until next November, it’s exciting to start thinking about the festive hard-hitting December holidays: Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s Eve.
These holidays bring friends and family together to celebrate the season through gift giving, song and, most importantly,…
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Christmas cookies may not be the most obvious place to hide extra nutrients, but baked Holiday sweets are certainly a clever – and delicious – way to get your family to eat their veggies. That’s why we gathered this delightful collection of Holiday baking recipes with hidden (and not so hidden) vegetables. Baking with vegetables not only adds vitamins, minerals and fiber to your cakes and pastries, recipes with veggies…
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Inhale deeply.
Exhale slowly.
Inhale again deeply, deeeeepply.
Now, exhale. Sloooooowly.
That’s what this Dumb Mom does before letting The Dudes into the kitchen.
Because the kitchen is my sacred, happy place.
No one really bothers me in the kitchen for fear that they might be put to work, so normally, aside from the always-needs-me-desperately-when-something-catches-on-fire two year old, my kitchen is like a ghost town when the cooking is going…
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It’s hard to think of the holidays as a time to teach your kids to eat right, but that depends entirely on what your definition of eating right is.
If you’re a normal parent, the kind whose goal is to keep a lid on the sweets and treats, the kind who makes it her mission to sneak as much healthy stuff as possible into her kids before they…
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Sponsored by The Children’s Hospital
Thanksgiving is a special time to spend with friends and family, but the celebrations often include too much food and treats that aren’t always healthy. With childhood obesity on the rise in the U.S., it’s important that we teach our children the importance of eating well, even during the holidays.
Portion control can help to keep the fat and calorie intake down at big holiday meals…
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