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CONTRIBUTED BY LARISSA   www.igourmet.com Holidays overseas are always interesting.  Without our families nearby we have endless options in how to spend Thanksgiving.  Do you host Thanksgiving at your house?  Who do you invite?  Is there enough room for everyone?  Will the commissary run out of canned pumpkin?  Do you make reservations at the club [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY JANAE BURGER I LOVE the episode on Friends with the Turkey-head. You know the one. The episode where they walk around scaring each other with a turkey on their heads (Season 5, episode 8). To me, this is such a ‘feel-good’ episode for several reasons. First because I LOVE Thanksgiving: the baking and [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY HEATHER GELORMINE Maybe it’s just me, but I love Thanksgiving.  It’s probably my favorite holiday, even moreso than Christmas or the 4th of July (the latter sliding in there because it’s so close to my own birthday, I always believed that the festivities were in celebration of me).  I love the food, the [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY MARY RICHARDSON Last year, we missed Halloween in Okinawa. We opted to travel out of Japan instead, and all year long, I felt like I missed out. You see, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. That’s why this year, we’re sticking around and doing it up right.  I like celebrating the holiday [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY DASHA GARIEPY Jees-O-Pete, I liketa never got this post done. My ADHD was kickin’ in overdrive… that’s Ample Doses of Holiday Distractions by the way. I sat down at the computer to do my post at least six hours ago! Unfortunately, I was listening to a Christmas album by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY HEATHER HANSEN I hope everyone has nearly completed their holiday shopping. I’m somewhat behind. Usually I’m finished by the end of November, so this is a first for me. Heather N (the other Heather – It’s a beautiful name, don’t you think?) wrote about holiday traditions this week. Her post inspired mine. Instead [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY KANDY   When I was about ten years old, I remember a marathon road trip from Idaho to Georgia. Four days of  funky gas station potty breaks, napping at truck stops and playing games with my sister in the car.  Having stayed too long visiting relatives on leave en route to our new [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY HEATHER NORDELL    The holiday season is such a wonderful and magical time, especially when you are a child. This is the time of year that you wait for – the time of year that you count down to and relish when it arrives. When you are a child you know nothing of [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY HEATHER HANSEN Hi, everyone! I’m so excited to take over the TO SHOP section! I hope that I do it as much justice as my predecessors. They were amazing, so I have BIG shoes to fill. Since it’s my first post, I want to begin with a confession. I’m terrified of this upcoming [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY JOELLE YAMADA My husband isn’t a flowers-and-chocolates kind of guy.  I learned early on that unless I wanted to wake up disappointed EVERY February 15, that we’d have to figure out something that would work for both of us and create that wonderful feeling of love we’re all hoping for on the big [...]

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