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Ideas for Handmade Christmas Gifts
Avoid over spending and the crowded malls by making Christmas gifts you have made by hand. You don’t have to be particularly crafty or good with your hands to make gifts at home, but if you can sew, knit or bake, it will certainly make your efforts go more smoothly. No matter what your do-it-yourself skill level is, you can give your friends and family thoughtful handmade presents for Christmas this year.
7 Reasons Parenting a Toddler is an Exercise in Insanity
Jerry Seinfeld once said that “a two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.” And that phrase is permanently etched into my mind. Have truer words ever been spoken about toddlers? Because he’s right, of course. We all have to be slightly mad to get through the…
When Your Daughter Is Getting Married (And You Have 6 Kids)
When my children were young I would throw some of the most amazing birthday parties. Every year I would throw six fun birthday parties, one for each child with a theme, decorations, and activities. 20 years later I still bump into to parents and children who share their memories of the Newsome kids’ birthday parties.…
The Gift Of Play
When my siblings and I were kids growing up in Washington DC in the 1970s, afterschool activities meant playing kickball or exploring Battery Kemble Park with a few dozen other elementary school children, unsupervised by adults. Christmas presents for the luckiest families meant toys, books and stuffed animals. We never saw a flash card or…
Mommy Moments: It’s All About the Little Things
UCLAs legendary former basketball coach John Wooden got it right when he said: “It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”