Making Christmas gifts with your children can be a fun family project and one that creates happy memories, too.
It’s not too early to start these projects so you’ll have plenty of time and won’t be rushed in December.
When my daughter was small, we were involved in many types of crafts and often made gifts for our holiday giving.  (Grandparents, especially, express appreciation for these items…whether they’re really useful or not!)
What types of items can you and your youngsters create? This all depends on the age of the children.

Woven and patchwork potholders
Collages with family events throughout the year
Shadowboxes containing momentos from trips
Placemats …read more

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Whenever September rolls around again, I begin thinking about the holidays.  Specifically, Christmas.  The reason I do it is not to stress myself out more, but to make the holidays a fun and relaxing time.
It wasn’t always this way with me.  Like many people I tried to be the “Christmas overachiever.”  I’d stress myself out in getting the perfect gift for everyone I knew, I’d have as many people over as I could, and I’d bake until my oven cried from overwork.  (Well, almost.)
As a result, Christmas was something I dreaded.  And that isn’t …read more