Tag: Holidays

A Short Drive To Holiday Magic: Stone Mountain Christmas And The Magical Flight To The North Pole

A Short Drive To Holiday Magic: Stone Mountain Christmas And The...

This holiday season, families across Tennessee are packing up the car and heading south for one of the region’s most dazzling Christmas destinations. Just...
How To Make The Season Special

How To Make The Season Special

I'm a big fan of lists. Maybe that's why I love Pinterest so much. It is literally just a gigantic list of ideas. I'm...
Decoding Gift-Giving This Season

Decoding Gift-Giving This Season

This is only our fourth Christmas as parents, so I reach December 25th wondering, as I stare at the wreckage of boxes and wrapping...

Holiday FOMO

I never knew what FOMO actually stood for until I moved to Chattanooga. Fear of Missing Out is a real thing here — there’s...
The Essential Christmas

The Essential Christmas

Over the last year I’ve been working to determine what is essential. What is it about my life, my career, and my focus that...

Untraditional Holidays

With Thanksgiving around the corner and Christmas not far behind, nostalgia and childhood memories are filling the air. I’m not sure if it’s the...
Maintaining The Holiday Presence When Parents Work

Maintaining The Holiday Presence When Parents Work

Some of my first memories of Thanksgiving and Christmas included me looking anxiously at the calendar six weeks before the big days, when my...

Being More Present at Christmastime

How is it December already? It feels like it was just yesterday I was slathering my boys in sunscreen and heading to the swimming...

Making Spirits Bright: Keeping Holiday Traditions Fun for Teens, Tweens, and...

I grew up in a small family without a lot of traditions. I watched every holiday commercial and Thanksgiving or Christmas special longing to...

Last-Minute Ideas for the Fourth of July

Tuesday seems like a weird day for a holiday, doesn't it? If you work, you probably want to take Monday off. If you plan...