
There’s nothing like the scent of pine tickling your nose to get you in the Christmas spirit. You’d love a real tree this year, you say, but you don’t want to kill one. Well, you don’t have to. You can have your tree and keep it alive too – and maybe even see it again for Christmas next year. Read More…

Every year, my mom acts as our holiday groundhog. Our very own Punxsutawney Mery tells us whether she feels the holiday spirit in the atmosphere or not. We’ll be driving around running errands and she’ll look out the window with a disappointed face and say, “I don’t feel the holiday spirit” or “There is no holiday spirit this year”. That’s our cue to turn on the holiday spirit as a family (we have named her the official Holiday Spirit Awareness Ambassador). If we aren’t feeling it, then we better turn it on – and that includes YOU. Read More…