When I was little, my mom found an ad in the paper about auditions for a local ballet company that was putting on The Nutcracker. Up until that point, dance was a fun, after school activity with a never-ending recital at the end of the year. When we realized the date for auditions had already ...
Top 10 Non-Traditional Christmas Songs for Your Holiday Playlist
It's that time of year again: Christmas music has arrived! Now, I know that not everyone gets super excited and is all about Christmas songs, so I thought it would be cool to post some non-traditional holiday songs that might win over those of you who don't typically get into the holiday tunes. ...
VLOG 17: How to Cut Your Own Christmas Tree
Tutorials are cool, but they’re always so long and everything is always going too smoothly. Meanwhile, in the world of Allyn and Shaun, nothing ever goes according to plan (but we have been making an effort to and are doing a better job of just rolling with it!). Since cutting down your own ...
VLOG 15: What the Holidays Are like When You’ve Lost a Loved One
Most of the time when you see a post like this on grieving during the holidays, it's directed at getting through the season or year after the loss. But, it's been 9 years today since I lost my dad to suicide, and the holidays are still an especially hard time of year for me. My dad and I didn't ...