Author Archive | Jennie Lyon

For many families the start of the holiday season is marked with choosing a holiday tree. Each holiday season more than 25 million coniferous trees are cut and sold as holiday decorations. Although, the holiday tree is an important symbol of the holidays, it can be a hard choose to make when considering the environment.

It can take up to 15 years to grow a holiday tree that will be used for about a month. Many holiday tree farms use large amounts of pesticides and fertilizers which pollute the waterways, land and poison wildlife. Then after the holiday season, these trees usually disposed of in our local landfills.
You do have options when it comes to choosing a holiday tree and many of those choices can be friendly to the environment – and beautiful in your home too. Jump over to Cascadian Farm for my top 6 favorite holiday tree alternatives.

I was one of those children who took really good care of my toys. In fact – most of the toys that I had as a child that were super important to me, I still have to this day. I always wondered if my own children would be interested in the toys that I saved all of these years. So each year, I try to remember to pick one think from my trunk that I think Eben would treasure too and give it to his as a holiday gift.

Last year, the mister and I introduced Eben to Gremlins, he loved it – especially Gizmo. That is when I remembered the huge trunk in our guest room, full of toys from my past. Among the treasures a mint 1984 Gizmo. I decided to add it to Eben’s holiday gifts – and to my surprise it was the one thing that he was still carrying around several weeks later. He kept asking me, “How old is this Gizmo again, Mom?” Ha.

Do you have treasures from your past that you dig out to give to your children?
Do you find that sharing these prized possessions brings you closer to your child?
If not, do you buy gifts for your children that remind you of your childhood?

P.S. This years gift from my trunk is going to be my large collection of PEZ dispensers!