Blogging Through the Seasons

My family has some really awesome family traditions. For example, every Saturday after church our family goes hiking. Another tradition that we have as a family is coming together for a family member’s birthday. We always make sure that person feels really...

When I was younger, my family took photos with Santa every year. It was a whole production – matching Christmas outfits for me and my siblings, big smiles, and sometimes big tears. These photos were a family tradition. To this day, we decorate our home every...

This Christmas season, I think of my grandmother, whom we called Nani, a Hindi word for grandma. Despite her disabilities, she made sure to create lasting Christmas memories by coming to our house to make traditional Indian gujias, a kind of pastry with a sweet...

My earliest Christmas memory goes back to when I was four years old. We were in our 600 square-foot apartment, and had a Christmas tree covered in blue, red, green, and yellow bulbs. We had our outdoor balcony draped in warm yellow lights and had a low-budget nativity...

One Christmas the adults decided to use us kids (me, my sister, and my two cousins) as the cast of colorful characters for “The Bible.” They rented a video camera, made costumes, wrote scripts, and then we filmed several stories, including, Adam and Eve, Moses,...

One of my first and most favorite Christmas memories took place when I was only four or five years old. We were living in Price, Utah, where my dad was pastoring. My mom was a nurse but decided to quit and stay home with my brother and me, so we packed our bags and...