December 22, 2016

Link Roundup

Happy holidays, friends!

For those who celebrate, this week is always a mix of stressful and exciting, relaxing, and totally overwhelming. There’s a lot going on! No matter what you have planned, we hope you have a bit of time away from the hustle and bustle to enjoy family and revel in the magic of the season.

Here are few reads that have caught our eye, made us laugh, and had us thinking this week. We wanted to pass them along.

Enjoy!

These hilarious parents tweet about why winter “break” is not really a break at all.

Love this beautiful poem, “Not Enough Words,” written by a birth mother.

Is your little one perhaps struggling with depression? These individuals share what their depression felt like as kids.

“Alan Thicke’s Dr. Seaver Didn’t Know Best. That Was His Charm.” “Yet Dr. Seaver is worth a tip of the hat as a character who helped liberate TV dads from the prison of always being right and always being serious. He was an important transitional figure in the metamorphosis of television parenting, from the one-size-fits-all version of early TV to the wide variety of today.”

Love these off-beat, completely original holiday traditions! Especially this one from a girl who grew up in foster care, showing that family comes in a variety of ways. “Ashley Sawyer says: “I grew up in foster care, and thus haven’t had a lot of family traditions to rely on throughout my life. During my sophomore year of college, however, my best friend and I randomly spent Christmas Eve together. What started out as an evening spent eating snacks and exchanging a few haphazard gifts has now grown to become an all-out event that we both treasure. At thirty two years old, we’ve spent the last thirteen Christmas Eves together. We have a fancy dinner, a big tree, decorations and lots hugs. We’ve endured failed recipes as amateur cooks, the ending of relationships, graduate school and pets – it’s what I suspect many people experience with their brothers and sisters. I live a great life now and am so lucky. Creating this tradition with my best friend taught me that family and love is truly what you make of it. And, isn’t that what the holidays are all about?”

This video of Santa photo fails is absolutely hilarious.

Sweet stocking stuffer ideas for the littles!

Kristin Howerton gets real in a new video post about how her children’s school-related holiday activities have totally taken over Christmas.