Family Friendly Holidays

Christmas day is simple, we wake up, open presents, spend the day with family and have a turkey dinner feast. Christmas eve, however, can be spent in several different ways. Some people like to be busy, some people like to just stay indoors, it is very individual and can be changed to how you want to do things. Here are some ideas on what you could do on Christmas Eve. (Image credit) Go For A Walk   As a lot of people spend Christmas day indoors, you may want to go for a family walk. You could go to your local woodland area and be close to nature, go around your local park or if you are quite an outdoors person you could go on…

The holidays are a time for family, friends, and lots of fun. But, unfortunately, it can also be a challenging time, especially if you’re trying to get your household in the holiday spirit. Between shopping for gifts, cooking dinner, and putting up decorations, it can be hard to know where to start. That’s why we’ve put together this list of 5 helpful tips to help make your holiday season a little bit easier! Photo by Jonathan Meyer:  Start with decorations: The best way to get in the holiday spirit is by decorating your home. You don’t have to go overboard – simple touches like a festive wreath on the front door, garland around the fireplace, and string lights around windows can make all the difference….

One tradition that our family uses, and that I can remember from my childhood, is an advent calendar. For me, there was really nothing like opening the window to get my chocolate as we counted down the days to Christmas. And even though I grew up in a secular household, now I am carrying on this tradition in more Christian ways with my youngest daughter. This year, we may just customize our wooden tree advent calendar. how to use a wooden countdown calendar for advent One of the ways that you can use this is by combining it with another tradition like using a Jesse tree during Advent. You can also tie this in with our kindness acts for kids by placing one of the…

Waiting is tough, isn’t it? And if you’re anything like my kids, you have a really hard time with waiting for things to happen.  If you’re anything like me, you have difficulty with measuring time.  So, when I was growing up? those tasty chocolate Advent calendars were one of my favorite things. I could see how many days were left until Christmas AND I got chocolate. Win-win, right? We love to celebrate holidays and Christmas is the overwhelming family favorite. Why use a Christmas Countdown Calendar? Well, simple enough really. You’re giving your child a tangible way to see how many days are left until Christmas.  And sure, you could do this in several ways. In fact? We do. You may also like: Printable Jesse…