My family has a long-standing tradition of celebrating Christmas in Chicago. It started when we were young and lived in the suburbs, and my parents would bring us into the city to see The Nutcracker every year. After we moved away from the Chicagoland area, my family took trips back to Chicago whenever we could. …
I love The Polar Express – the book and the movie. Hubby loves trains of all kinds. He has an HO Packer train that he sets up under the Christmas tree every year. Naturally, when I started looking for family activities for the holidays, The Polar Express jumped to the top of my list. I …
Today is LEON Day – June 25. LEON spelled backwards is NOEL, and marks that it is six months until Christmas. It also happens to be a day that my Grandpa made up, or at least, is the first person I ever heard make mention of it. We’ve been celebrating LEON Day as a family …
The post originally appeared on my previous blog on November 28, 2010. While many of you were out shopping on Black Friday, my husband and I took a road trip to Asheville, NC. Asheville is northwest of Charlotte and in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. We’d been told by many people that we had to …