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The Top 20 Most-Wanted Holiday Gifts for 2020
Now is the time to make your holiday gift-giving plans. This collection of 20 of this year’s most popular and most-requested gifts includes something for everyone on your list. For the camping enthusiast: The Hot Seat heated portable chair features adjustable heat levels, three reclining positions, and more. For the home cook: The Always Pan is a cult favorite for 2020 that replaces eight traditional pieces of cookware in a beautiful, modern design. For the fitness enthusiast: The Sonic Handheld Percussion Massage Gun delivers powerful waves of customizable pressure to relax and relieve sore, tired muscles. For your best friend: This personalized, custom friendship mug features a sweet verse about…
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Celebrate Halloween 2020 with 5 Alternatives to Trick-or-Treating
The spookiest time of the year will look different during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many traditional Halloween activities are considered high-risk for spreading or being exposed to the virus. Public health institutes and local governments across the world have advised against attending indoor costume parties and door-to-door trick-or-treating. As a result, many people plan to celebrate the spooky holiday by watching a scary movie and carving pumpkins with their family or participating in a virtual costume contest. As many countries across the globe are issuing tighter restrictions to slow the second wave of coronavirus infections, this year real life seems more sinister than any horror movie. Fear of contagion and widespread…
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How to Plan and Organize Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. It’s a day for the family to enjoy time together cooking a great meal, watching the parade, watching football, or just sharing time. But hosting the dinner can get a bit overwhelming regardless if it is a small or a large number of guests that you will be hosting, and it can be especially overwhelming if it is your first time hosting Thanksgiving dinner. I am aware of this fact since I have been hosting Thanksgiving since the first year I got married (1994) and for a few of those years I had 20 plus guests for dinner and half of those guests even…
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Christmas Traditions
Since it is Christmas Eve I thought a would share my family’s favorite Christmas traditions with you. We have a few and through the years some of them have been modified to fit our growing and changing lifestyle. A fun one was buying, hiding, and wrapping my daughters’ gift. Waking up in the middle of the night and being extra quiet so we could place the gifts brought by Santa under the tree without waking her up. This was fun it was like our own Elf caper mission. This tradition has long passed, these days the roles have reversed and the one playing elf is my daughter. She goes shopping…
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Hosting Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. It’s a day for the family to enjoy time together cooking a great meal, watching the parade, watching football, or just sharing time. I love the cooking and the baking the best, but as a host, it can get a bit overwhelming. I am very much aware of this fact because some years, I have had up to 20 guests for dinner, and half of those guests even spent the weekend with us. So, in addition to hosting the main event, I’ve also had to come up with a few meals to feed the guests for the length of their stay. Thank god for takeout! Through the…
