Sassafras Mama

Here at Sassafras House, we celebrated the end of 2007 by putting Mama's new square baking dish to work to make chocolate fudge pudding ...

Last Christmas, I first learned how to play Set, a card game that I highly recommend. I've been a junkie ever since, playing the on-line...

The weekend of December 15, when I should have been grading papers, I instead made Christmas and New Year's cards for various friends an...

JT has a lovely wooden advent calendar that provides a daily pre-Christmas treat. On Christmas Eve the treat was to open a Christmas packag...

Going to bed on Christmas Eve is a tricky business when you are 7 years old. You want to sleep, of course, because only then will Santa com...

My son is 7 years old and he is in the 2nd grade. It's a nice age because he retains the charm of childhood even as he begins to develo...

My ex-partner and I always filled a stocking for one another on Christmas Eve, playing Santa for one another and then playing Santa together...

Last year, in the fall, when JT and I both tried to manage the open wound of our freshly broken family, we picked out two kittens to join ou...

JT's affection for the big daddy package has continued unabated. Everyday, he suggests that we open before Christmas morning. I ignore...

The holiday break started yesterday afternoon at 3:05 when school let out. The first thing I did when I got home was turn off the alarm on ...