Friday night the spouse and I went skating at the outdoor ice rink at the National Museum of Art. Growing up, I never was much for ballet or the other femme things my contemporaries seemed to be drawn to. But we did take skating lessons after school for a couple years. One of those years [...]
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I am Dorothy Hamill, Ice Queeeeeeen!
Posted in Christmas porn, gift ideas, spending time, tagged activities, Christmas, dorothy hamill, gift ideas, ice skating, museum, stress, work life balance on December 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Slow Christmas on your television. No really.
Posted in busy parents, Christmas porn, goodwill toward men, saving money, slow parenting, spending time, tagged A Christmas story, Charlie Brown, Dr. Seuss, Grinch, holidays, newspaper, Rudolph, Santa Claus, Thanksgiving, tv on November 18, 2010 | 11 Comments »
My sisters and I were raised on TV, and Christmas was no exception. Our Grammy used to save the insert in the newspaper with the entire schedule of Christmas specials. We would circle the ones we wanted to watch, usually starting the Friday after Thanksgiving with It’s a Wonderful Life and ending Christmas day with [...]
The Best of Slow Christmas
Posted in busy parents, Christmas, Christmas porn, gift ideas, goodwill toward men, holidays, homemade, local food, saving money, simplicity, slow food, Slow Movement, slow parenting, spending time, tagged best of, Christmas, gift ideas, holidays on December 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
You did it! You kept Christmas slow this year. Before you go enjoy it with your family and friends, I want you to bask for a moment in the glow of your creativity and warmth. You made Slow Christmas a success: over 6,000 people visited the website and the Facebook page this year, and it [...]
Slow Christmas reports from the White House!
Posted in Christmas, Christmas porn, holidays, tagged Christmas, Michelle Obama, The White House, White House Christmas, White House Christmas tree on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things Washingtonians take for granted is that our town, in addition to being where we live and work, is also where the President lives. I got invited through work to the White House Christmas open house yesterday. For all you Slow Christmasers out there who love a little Christmas porn, I’ll try [...]
Bookmarks, and I don’t mean the web kind
Posted in busy parents, Christmas porn, free range kids, gift ideas, holidays, homemade, slow parenting, spending time, tagged bookmarks, Christmas, crafts, family activities, gift ideas on December 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Looking for something to give the bibliophile in your life, or maybe an activity that’s fun for kids and adults? Make bookmarks. My mom is a thwarted artist, and she’s always drawing on something, loose leaf margins, the back of receipts, whatever’s around. For years when we were little, on the weekends leading up to [...]
Peanuts Charlie Brown 18-inch Artificial Christmas Tree, $7.99
Posted in Christmas porn, goodwill toward men, holidays, Kristmas Krap, Slow Movement, slow parenting, spending time, tagged artificial tree, Charlie Brown Christmas, Christmas, real tree on December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Want to celebrate the spirit of the Charlie Brown Christmas special? Now you can buy a replica of Charlie Brown’s forlorn little tree that’s machine-calibrated to be imperfect! Now might be a good time to ask: why do we love A Charlie Brown Christmas so much? Maybe it’s because we see a little of ourselves [...]
Mrs. Pease’s pumpkin bread
Posted in Christmas porn, gift ideas, holidays, homemade, recipes, saving money, simplicity, spending time, tagged Butterfinger, Christmas, save money, toys, watch, Whoppers on December 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The spouse weighs in with a family recipe: My recipe for pumpkin bread is pretty simple, when you think about it. But there’s a lot more in there than flour, pumpkin, and spices. It all started with Bill and Evelyn Pease. Bill and Evelyn were from Cottage Grove, Minnesota, but like a lot of Winter [...]
The first snow.
Posted in Christmas porn, saving money, simplicity, Slow Movement, spending time, tagged Christmas, Slow Movement, snow, voluntary simplicity on December 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It snowed today in Washington. The flakes were the size of a dime, wet, fat, almost ripe. The spouse and I bundled up and went outside, errands as our excuse. The first snow of the year is magical. City noises are hushed, and people walk slowly, eyes up in the air and snow caught on [...]
Love is a homemade paper chain.
Posted in busy parents, Christmas, Christmas porn, free range kids, gift ideas, homemade, saving money, simplicity, slow parenting, spending time, tagged Christmas, gift ideas, saving money, slow, spending time on December 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When I was teeny tiny, my mom decided that we would make a paper chain for the Christmas tree. My older sister remembers her cutting out the long thin rectangles for us, and then letting us assemble them ourselves with paste, and, no doubt, a few hijinks (I have this vision of me as l’enfant [...]
Into the fruitcake fray
Posted in Christmas porn, gift ideas, recipes, slow food, tagged Christmas, fruitcake, recipes, slow food on November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Things we know about fruitcake: 1. They have never been a runaway favorite. After Christmas, the town of Manitou Springs, Colorado holds a fruitcake toss for residents who want to get rid of their unwanted cakes. 2. Every year, nice people give them to us, and we must say thank you, and act like we [...]
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