Posts Categorized: Holidays
In checking out some online sheet music for the 6th grade cellist in our family, I ran across the clip below that I wanted to share with you today. I love this guy’s enthusiasm, as well as his playing! (Of course, our young cellist pointed out that winter weather is very bad for a string…
Welcome to the next installment of Holiday Yum, our Holiday recipe blog hop series! For the entire schedule, click here. Today, I have a classic recipe from my childhood: butter spritz cookies. I make it every year. It only requires a few standard ingredients, and it can give you an assortment of different-looking cookie styles. Here’s…
Time for our next recipe on the Holiday Yum blog hop! Check out fab blogger, mom, and Kosher foodie Estee Lavitt and her mouth-watering recipe for Chanukah Baked Latkes. Yep, now you can have your latkes and bake them, too! Why wait for Chanukah? I just have to try these… Looking for gifts for those…
For those of you already looking at snow on the ground, or envious of those who have the white stuff, this one’s for you. Folks in the 19th century had a lot of fun sledding, and doing other winter sports, too. (Click here for last year’s post on 19thc Ice-Skating in Central Park). Here’s an excerpt…
Here’s a re-post from last year’s Cyber Monday, with an addition on the end. Happy Shopping! Welcome! If you’re reading this, then the ‘net hasn’t yet crashed from the hordes of internet shoppers. Now that the turkey-induced coma has worn off, most folks are pulling out their wallets and trying to figure out what to…
Happy day before Thanksgiving! Here’s a quick laugh you’ll enjoy, before you: a) get in the car and crawl through holiday traffic b) frantically clean the house for overnight guests c) reacquaint yourself with odd kitchen utensils (where’s my mandoline?); or d) all of the above Big Bang Theory Flash Mob (on the set of…
In honor of the upcoming Halloween festivities, let’s take a closer look at how the holiday came to be, and how it was celebrated by some in the late nineteenth century. Thank the Irish: 2 people like this post. Like Unlike
Happy Friday, everyone! Can you believe that it’s less than a week before Halloween? Here’s something to get you in the mood: a house in Leesburg, Virginia, has been all rigged up with a Halloween light show, synchronized to the popular song “Gangnam Style.” According to the YouTube post, it took 8,500 lights and 250…
