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Posted on December 18th, 2012 under holidays. Tags: christmas, farm, tree. Comments: 2

Ok, here it is! After juggling 6 catalogs, 12 browser pages, and a super-secret piece of paper with notes and circles and arrows on the back, here is the World of Julie rundown for this holiday. (Forgive me for the lack of pictures, but I’m compiling this post with kids in the house, and I [...]

Posted on November 29th, 2012 under holidays. Tags: 100 scope notes, christmas, dress ups, gifts, jm cremps, lego, magic cabin, nova naturals, wrinkle in time. Comments: 6

We don’t really vary too much from our Christmas favorites here. I still love Christmas in Noisy Village best because it has earnest lines like “This cooky smell is the kind I like!” and “I wish Christmas would come oftener, don’t you?” I’m sure there’s a place for dinosaurs dressed as Santa*, and we do [...]

Posted on December 23rd, 2011 under Children's Book of the Week. Tags: astrid lindgren, bagram ibatouilline, books, christmas, christmas in noisy village, great joy, kate dicamillo, lemony snicket, santa duck. Comments: 2

Hello all. This is your annual reminder post about having Slow Holidays. You can read the original post here; what it says, basically, is that you should give fewer gifts, make them more meaningful, and encourage everyone to open one gift and enjoy it for a while before going on to the next one. As [...]

Posted on November 7th, 2011 under holidays. Tags: christmas, gifts, presents, slow christmas, toys. Comments: 6

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Posted on December 25th, 2009 under holidays. Tags: christmas, christmas card, holiday. Comments: 6

According to Dave’s mom, today is called Christmas Adam (because Adam comes before Eve). Now that you know this, you’ll find you can use this term all the time. Because, really, all sorts of holiday events often happen on Christmas Adam. I have incorporated this term into my lexicon for so many years I forgot [...]

Posted on December 23rd, 2009 under holidays. Tags: christmas, christmas adam, christmas eve, holidays. Comments: 8

Here’s what I’m excited to see the kids open in a week: I got Zuzu this Penelope Peapod doll, and I have to say it’s adorable. I have been on the fence about getting her a doll; she’s pretty into trucks and things, but she does love to cuddle with stuffed animals like they’re little [...]

Posted on December 18th, 2009 under holidays, toys. Tags: a hole is to dig, christmas, decemberists, DK animal sticker encyclopedia, DK dinosaur sticker encyclopedia, enchanted forest, etsy, freecycle, holidays, leave no trace game, man bruder crane, maple's organics, maurice sendak, mighty world motorcycle policeman, noah's ark, penelope peapod, ruth krauss, shins, thinkfun, vintage children's books my kid loves, wildlife fact file. Comments: 3

Every year we get the same Christmas books from the library, and I love that they’ve become such a part of our holiday ritual. We do have some Christmas books of our own that get year-round use (Mary Engelbreit’s The Night Before Christmas, The Polar Express, Mortimer’s Christmas Manger, and The Nativity) though I’m considering [...]

Posted on December 14th, 2009 under Children's Book of the Week, holidays. Tags: astrid lindgren, charlotte zolotow, Children's Book of the Week, chris raschka, chris van allsburg, christmas, christmas in noisy village, deborah kogan ray, e.e. cummings, early american christmas, holidays, ilon wikland, julie vivas, karma wilson, lillian hoban, little tree, mary engelbreit, mole family's christmas, mortimer's christmas manger, mr. willowby's christmas tree, nativity, night before christmas, people, peter spier, polar express, robert barry, russel hoban, tomie depaola, white marble. Comments: 7

I should know better than to try to run an errand after school. I took the kids to Broadway Gardens to get paperwhite bulbs at around 4:00, which involved 1. Eli almost peeing his pants 2. Henry disappearing while Eli was peeing in employee bathroom. 3. Finding Henry, and then losing Zuzu as she kept [...]

Posted on December 4th, 2009 under Bad Kids. Tags: anticipation, christmas, holidays, ice cream, kippered herring, lights, meltdown, paperwhites, tantrum, whining. Comments: 13