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 [...]
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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 »
Down to the wire: 3 steps to Christmas sanity
Posted in simplicity, Slow Movement, spending time, tagged american history, Christmas, errands, holidays, little women, paul revere, stress, stress management, wedding planning on December 16, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Holiday parties, last minute errands, speeding up at work to cram all in before year’s end: these are the hallmarks of the week before Christmas. I don’t know about you, but I find it much easier to keep Christmas slow on December 1 than on December 15. This week is when it all comes down [...]
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 [...]
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