5 Post-Christmas Traditions To Start This Year
The gifts have been opened, the cookies baked and the bells jingled. Christmas is over and the New Year is just a week away. What to do now?
Here are five ideas for post-Christmas / pre-New Year traditions to end your year and start the new one off on the right foot.
Review/reflect on the past year and set goals or a mission plan for next year. Take some time for yourself and review your year. This can be done in one sitting, or as a week long project. There are great, free online options to help guide you through your year in review. Check out this for a workbook and word of the...
Christmas Popcorn Recipe
It’s the most wonderful time for popcorn. I have listed below a quick and easy tasty popcorn recipe. During the holidays we all love to get together with family and friends. We also love to bring something. This Christmas popcorn would be the perfect snack to add to your list of things to bring. You can even roll the popcorn into balls and store them in clear bags with curly ribbon and a cute tag that says Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays. Every year, my parents host an ugly sweater party. This year I have decided to bring Christmas popcorn. It will be the perfect treat to hand out at the end of the party.
Ingredients:
Popcorn
Marshmallows
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Twenty-Five Family-Friendly Christmas Jokes
HO HO HO and Merry Christmas! With Christmas Day almost here, below are twenty-five family-friendly jokes to entertain the kids while waiting for the jolly man to arrive.
What did Santa say at the start of the race? Ready, set, Ho Ho Ho!
Why are Christmas trees so bad at sewing? They are constantly dropping their needles.
Why didn’t Rudolph get a good report card? Because he went down in history.
What do you call a greedy elf? Elfish
What kind of photos do elves take? Elf-ies
What falls at the North Pole but never gets hurt? Snow
What does Santa do when he is tired? Takes a Santa pause.
What is a Christmas tree’s favorite...
The Best Holiday Activities When You’re Not Feeling Your Best
There’s a bug going around here. So many people we know are sick. So many more are staying in just in case they’re infectious. I’m trying to plan activities in case my littles get sick. (Although last week they planned to both be sick so they could miss school to play. But they forgot I can hear them.)
Sick Karaoke is a memory you’ll want to make. Try to sing Mariah Carey holiday songs with a raspy sick voice. If your eyes are light sensitive, wear your sunglasses and a towel as a mink stole. Try to dance, if you can.
Make a Christmas art piece as a family. Let...
Christmas On Pointe
Have you heard about Baton Rouge’s premier residential community, Pointe-Marie? If you’ve had a chance to visit then you know that Pointe-Marie is a 120-acre walkable village featuring gorgeous homes on beautiful lots, entertainment for the whole family and a charming sense of community located right here in the Red Stick on historic River Road. If you have not yet had a chance to visit Pointe-Marie, this holiday season is the perfect time to see all this community has to offer.
There was so much fun to be had and there was something for everyone to do!
Both of our girls tried their hand at playing the inflatable games with dad. The cookie decorating activity was a hit...
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Mardi Gras From the Perspective of a Krewe Dancer
Mardi Gras From the Perspective of a Krewe Dancer
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