Food + Holidays

The holidays are my thing. Come November 1st, I’m the obnoxious lady humming Christmas carols and browsing Target for a fancy new tree skirt as onlookers stare in contempt, nursing their sugar crash hangovers from binge candy eating the night...

For more than sixteen years, the week after Thanksgiving has traditionally seen my family and I piling down into the basement to search for the box that houses our fake Christmas tree for 90 percent of the year. I...

It’s officially December and most of us are in the flurry of holiday gift giving. Our family celebrates Christmas so I still have time to get myself organized. I will confess that my tree was up a couple of...

Happy Halloween! 🎃 At Duluth Mom, we're feeling festive and want to spread our spooky joy on to you, our readers. So we've brewed up a plan to host our 4th annual costume contest! We think it's a great way...

My 5-year old daughter’s widening vocabulary astounds me. She’s inventive and witty with her words. She quickly picks up on catch phrases and idioms to test them out in conversation, often with a high rate of success. And it’s...

  My love affair with cereal began at a young age. My father is to blame for my love of cereal, and not just one particular kind. Growing up we ate all kinds, from Cheerios and Corn Pops to Wheaties...

As a teacher, this might sound as if I'm tooting my own horn, but let me tell you why teacher appreciation week is real and so very, very APPRECIATED! Growing up, I was a military kid (who am I kidding,...

If you ask any teacher about the gifts they treasure the most, they'll probably tell you about the ones that cost the least. Personal notes, letters, or cards from you and your child are things that most teachers hold...

Television commercials and Lifetime Channel movies always make the holidays appear to be stress-free. Moms have perfect manicures and make perfect turkeys. Everyone exchanges intricately wrapped and trimmed gifts. Reality looks a little different, right? You think that mani/pedi...

Halloween has all the markers of a fun and exciting holiday. We can dress in costume and adorn our homes with spooky decorations. There is candy every where you look, and the holiday lands within my favorite season of...