Posts Tagged ‘Holiday’

Advent: A Time of Anticipation

When I became a mom, I wondered when Macey would start to understand and anticipate holidays. I wondered when she would start remembering holidays from one year to the next. I now have my answer. She started understanding at three, and at four, she anticipates. Maybe that’s why she’s a huge...

December 23rd, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Christmas in China

In 2005, while the husband and I sat in a darkened theater waiting for an acrobat show to start, we couldn’t help but grin as we listened to Christmas carols being piped over the loud speakers. Nor could we help chuckling at the often life-sized Santa posters bedecked with glitter and lights peeking...

December 16th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Three Therapeutic Tips for a Merry Christmas

Christmas is nearly here; for those of us with children from the “hard places” , the holidays are approached with a mix of hope and trepidation. We know that Christmas may be a delightful day of joy, or a terrible day of rages and stress. The good news is that we can take steps to...

December 12th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Deck the Halls…with IRS provided Forms in the Prescribed Manner

With the holiday season upon us comes the sobering realization that after the first of the year we’ll all be poorer and fatter. If that weren’t enough, tax season will be looming in the not so far off future. So while our hearts are filled with cheer and the cold weather is still bearable,...

December 6th, 2009 | Issues, Tax | Read More

Grown in My Heart’s Top Ten Charities

We, at Grown in My Heart, came up with a fabulous toy list….It was one that included all of the toys your kids would want. It had the culture toys, the new trendy toys, the classic toys, the best books to read, the most enticing this and that toys…but we just couldn’t post it because...

November 18th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

On Saturday night, people across Asia will celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival or 中秋节 (Zhōngqiūjié) in Mandarin. This holiday always occurs during the Autumnal Equinox, so people often refer to it as the Moon Festival, since the moon appears bigger, brighter and closer to earth at this time of...

October 1st, 2009 | China, Feature | Read More

Parent’s Day

May 8th is Parent’s Day (어버이 날) in South Korea. The Korean’s celebrate the parent’s as a whole, instead of a separate day for mother’s and father’s. The children make paper carnations for the parents, who wear them that day. The children also get a gift for...

May 8th, 2009 | Korea | Read More

Children’s Day

In Korea, May is unofficially known as Family month, for a few reasons first the Lotus Lantern Festival which usually falls in May and then Children’s Day and Parents Day in the same week. Children’s Day is always on May 5th every year and every child in Korea can tell you about Children’s...

May 5th, 2009 | Korea | Read More

Lotus Lantern Festival

The Lotus Lantern Festival is the week long celebration of Buddha’s birthday which is celebrated on the 8th day of the 4th lunar month every year. Today, Buddha would be or is depending on how you look at it 2,553 years old. And in true form since the twins came home, I am fashionably late...

May 2nd, 2009 | Korea | Read More

How To: Ukranian and Russian Faberge Eggs

Faberge eggs used to only come out at Easter time but that has changed now that they are such a collector’s item. My mother loves them and one of the gift’s we picked up for her in St. Petersburg was a beautiful glass egg. It was not the traditional Faberge egg that she usually collects...

April 7th, 2009 | Crafts, Russia | Read More