Holiday Habits Die Hard
Seeing as ... A.) I'm currently unemployed and there are only so many times you can scrub a toilet and doomscroll LinkedIn B.) It's almost Christmas ... I'm busy trying to make the holiday season magical for my kids, as moms do. Only it's difficult as they get older because they are a lot more expensive and a lot harder to impress. Every year since they were little, we've had the same tradition: at some point during mid- to late-December, we all pile in the car in our PJs with pillows and blankets and cups of hot cocoa and cruise around looking at Christmas lights while my Christmas playlist blares loudly enough to drown out any complaints. We did it again this year, but it was so weird because instead of a spontaneous "let's go look at Christmas lights" we had to, like, plan it around everybody's work schedules and such. Which is at this point virtually impossible, and actually sucks a little bit of the magic out of the occasion right off the ba...
