My favorite things about Christmas

Halloween is over, Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away, and then it’s Black Friday and the countdown of the number of shopping days left until Christmas. Typically, all our Christmas decorating is done during the long weekend after Thanksgiving – but there is so much to do, it almost takes the fun out of [...]

Haunted M&M House It’s only Columbus Day weekend, and already one of the department stores in a nearby mall, has opened their Christmas Store. Maybe I’m getting older , but it seems as though it opens earlier and earlier every year (although my wife insists that it opens on the same weekend every year). As [...]

One of my favorite childhood memories was helping my mother make dozens and dozens of Christmas cookies. This was done over the course of many nights when one of the annual Christmas specials was on Back in the days before, TiVo, DVDs, and yes even VCRs, if you wanted to see Merry Christmas Charlie Brown [...]