Tuesday, December 20, 2016

How My Children Changed My View of the Perfect Holiday — New Holiday Traditions

Growing up, I had not one, not two, but three different holiday traditions. As a result, I dreamed of a life that looked a lot like Norman Rockwell’s famous painting, Freedom from Want: Family gathered, a fat brown turkey on the table, and ideally, fewer emotional complications for my kids than my own divorced childhood had delivered.

But dreams don’t always come true, and sometimes they fail to encompass all the available — and wonderful — possibilities.

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