December brings talk of college football playoffs and the start of basketball season. The Thanksgiving holiday might have included a visit home from your college student, and that can be a terrific ...

I was in the craft store the other day and came across a display of those ceramic, table top, light-up Christmas trees. I almost had a nostalgic meltdown right there in the holiday decor aisle. Those ...

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I remember the Christmas of 1985 like no other — that was the year my sisters and I got Cabbage Patch dolls. Seeing those large rectangle boxes under the tree as we were making our way down the green ...

You’ve been dreaming of this moment since you dropped them off in August — the sweet reunion of your baby returning home from college for the holidays. But before your vision of a fairy tale ...

When the first holiday lights start being hung around town, or we hear the first Christmas song on the radio, or we are sitting under our favorite blanket and see the first Christmas commercial on ...

I had a senior moment this morning. Not the kind where you forget something—although I do have plenty of those these days. I’m talking about the kind you have when your last kid is a senior in high ...

The eagle has landed as my youngest child has submitted her final college application. After six months that featured me begging her to work on the common app before school started (didn’t happen), ...

Holidays are a beautiful magical time of celebration and family. Except when they are not. Holidays can seem a bit less magical when your teen or young adult child stops listening for reindeer on the ...

There’s nothing like the magic of the holidays with little ones. Sadly, once our kids stop believing in Santa and start sleeping in on Christmas morning, it can feel like all the magic is gone. This ...

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Whether it happens over fall break, Thanksgiving weekend, or winter vacation, your college student will be returning home — a place that is familiar and often a place of refuge where they can let go ...