The holiday season seriously seems to fly by. Halloween, Matt’s Birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas–BAM!   I’m trying to slow down and savor it as much as possible. I’ve worked to reduce the stress by staying ahead of everything I want to do: we start Halloween costumes in August or September, then we move on to getting our Christmas shopping started and holiday cards done.    Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone (we had a fantastic week at the beach visiting my family in Florida), we are rolling out the Christmas traditions. Here are our holiday traditions as a family…

Holiday Traditions

1. We travel out to Elgin Christmas Tree Farm (with our dog)