From there to here, from here to there, Funny things are everywhere
You know what I love? Christmas. You know what one of my favourite things about Christmas is? Revisiting the same traditions year after year as the boys get older and watching them reinterpret the traditions for whatever age they are at. It’s been nearly a decade since we discovered the Portable North Pole (PNP), and … Continue reading “The Magic of Christmas and the Portable North Pole”
(Ha, I started writing this post and then remembered I’d written something similar. I dug around in the archives and found the one I was looking for, from 2009. I’m sure I haven’t looked at it since I published it three years ago, but I had taken exactly the same approach and even used some … Continue reading “Santa? There’s an app for that”
Hmmm, something’s just not quite right. The tree is up, the stockings are hung, the malls are filled with frantic holiday shoppers and Magic 100 has switched to all-Christmas-music-all-the-time format. I’ve blogged about Santa parades and the Portable North Pole. I’ve got all my bloggy holiday traditions covered, but it feels like something is missing. … Continue reading “The one with her annual reindeer rant”
This post was inspired by a CBC article about how Shaw Cable moved its beloved Yule Log channel to a Video On Demand channel. The previously free stream featuring nothing but a Yule log burning in a fireplace, now entering its 25th year, will now cost 99 cents. The fee, plus a matching amount from … Continue reading “It’s a 21st Century Christmas”
Back in the day, the only ways you could “interact” with Santa were to stand in line at the mall to sit on his knee, or maybe at your parents’ annual company Christmas party. Now that we live in an interactive world, though, not only can your kids write a letter to Santa, or listen … Continue reading “Five ways to interact with Santa”
A colleague of mine (Hi Dawna!) tipped me off to this at a Christmas party the other day. If you are Canadian and have kids who still believe in the wonder of Santa, you *must* visit the Portable North Pole. You answer a few questions like how old is your child, first name, gender, province … Continue reading “Best Santa-social media mash-up EVER!”