The holidays are my favorite time of the year because they allow me to focus on the people who really matter in my life. As a Working Mom, I spend a lot of time juggling my many responsibilities including being a mom, a full-time educator, a wife, a professional blogger, and much more.
I like to prioritize my time during this season to redirect my attention to where it truly belongs, which is on my husband and my sons. They are the center of my world and I cherish every opportunity to spend quality time with them.
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Hallmark Channel is my family’s prime destination for all things holiday related! This season, we look forward to original movie releases such as A Wish For Christmas, Christmas Cookies, My Christmas Dream and much more! This Thanksgiving Day we will be tuning in to watch “Christmas in Homestead” at 8pm/7c!
The movie stars Taylor Cole and Michael Rady. One of the most famous actresses in world (Cole) heads to the Christmas-obsessed town of Homestead, Iowa to shoot a holiday-themed. She is thrown for a loop when a romance brews between her and local inn keeper and single dad, Matt (Rady). As she gets a taste of small-town life and people who give of themselves without asking anything in return, she discovers the true meaning of Christmas.
Photo: Credit: Copyright 2016 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Curtis Bonds Baker
This holiday season, I am looking forward to watching Hallmark Channel with my family and their all new exciting #CountdowntoChristmas programming beginning October 29th through Thanksgiving week, and until Christmas day! They have exciting programming coming up this holiday season for all those warm and toasty nights in.
Get into the holiday spirit with @HallmarkChannel original movie, “Christmas in Homestead” Thanksgiving Day at 8pm/7c! #CountdowntoChristmas
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The holidays mean spending time with family, eating good food, remembering how blessed we are, and helping others. It’s my favorite time of the year!
FAMILY AND FRIENDS GETTING TOGETHER. WE HAVE A LOT TO BE THANKFUL EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.
We have so much to be thankful for 🙂 I love my friends and family!
The holidays mean coming together as a family and celebrating a year of love and togetherness.
Holidays mean so much, its special time spent together with good friends and family.
It means seeing family I haven’t seen in a while and having a nice dinner. We all don’t get to see each other as much as we like but it’s a wonderful time to catch up and to be thankful for each other. I love seeing everyone and just having a good time.
Spending time with each other and enjoying each other’s company.
The holidays mean family to us. It means enjoying time together with family, enjoying good food and lots of laughs.
The holidays don’t mean much to me anymore. I make myself put up a tree and cook a small meal.
To us, holidays are the time to get together as a family and enjoy food, fun and good company. It’s always a good time for everyone.
The Holidays mean the family being together. We all get together to eat, talk and just enjoy each others company. Thanks for the chance
The holidays mean a time for family and friends to get together, and the fun part of presents and food.
The holidays mean to me a time to spend with family and friends.
That about says it all–friends and family are what holidays (and every day of the year) should be about.
It means being together and giving thanks for what we have.
The holidays can mean a lot of stress. This year I’m trying to keep the stress level down to a minimum.
What the Holidays mean to me is getting together with family and spending time and sharing a good meal together!
We love this time of year. It means we can spend more time together as a family.
What the holidays mean to me and my family is spending quality time together and catching up, creating precious memories together! It’s also a chance for us to see extended family members that live out of state.
The holidays mean spending time with family and friends and being thankful for all of life’s blessings.
The holidays are a time to take a moment and be thankful for everything we have and love.
This is so great. Holidays mean a ton to me and my family, of course. It’s a time that everyone gets together and spends quality time with one another despite and differences. It’s a great time to remember the true meanings of the holidays and our bonding.
Holidays to me mean spending time with friends and family and being thankful for our lives. We love visiting the snow up north with the kids and this year we will be taking the Polar Express.
For me Christmas means spending special time with family and loved one.
I especially enjoy seeing the grand kids opening their gifts – talk about fun!
I spent many holidays away from the family while i was in the army and also almost lost my mom so to me it’s a time to treasure each time together.
The holidays are a time to show the special people in our lives how much they mean to us. It’s also when we get to spend some special family time together.
The holidays are very important to my family..more so now. I moved from my home state of Ohio to Oregon with my husband to help out his parents after his dad had a stroke. It’s been a year, and this will be the 2nd set of holidays I have not been able to spend with my family..it’s very difficult for me.
The holidays mean time to relax and spend with family and friends.
The holidays mean getting together with family, time off of work and the end of another year.
The holidays mean catching up with extended family and celebrating all of our blessings.
They mean spending time together. I love that we can all be home together so that do our favorite things together.
The holidays mean getting to spend time with relatives who I don’t get to see very often. It’s a great time to catch up on what’s going on in our lives.
The holidays mean unplugging and relaxing and having fun with your family.
The holidays mean spending time with friends and family. The holidays also mean keeping traditions.
They mean spending time with family and reaching out to others around us.
The holidays mean spending quality time together with no interruptions.
Holidays mean spending time together and enjoying each others company. They also mean eating delicious food and enjoying all things relating to Christmas.
To my family and I the holidays mean spending time with those you love and making memories. It’s also a time to give to others (such as caroling at the local nursing home or serving dinner at a soup kitchen).
THE HOLIDAYS FOR ME, IS SPENDING TIME WITH MY KIDS. WATCHING THEIR EXCITEMENT AND ENJOYING THE MOMENT 🙂
The holidays mean spending time with family and having fun at home as well as having more free time to clean the house.
The holidays mean family and friends time. Everything revolves around making time and spending it with them.
Being with family is great! I love giving gifts and cooking with family!
Holidays mean togetherness and love. It is a beautiful time of the year.
The holidays mean spending time with my family, creating fun memories and sharing joy.
Holidays are a time for family and a time to see some family that you don’t necessarily get to see during other times of the year.
The holidays mean spending time with family that I do not live near and don’t get to see often.
The holidays mean to me spending time with family and friends.
To me, the holidays are a time for the family to get together and have a good time with each other.
I love Christmas. It is my favorite time of the year and the most beautiful. I love the Christmas lights and decorations. I love listening to Christmas music and even want some snow. I love spending time with my kids and family at Christmas.
Holidays mean togetherness and love.
The holidays mean spending time with family and having fun.
To me and my family the holidays mean being together and spending time as a family, it means remember the true reason for the season!
They mean a chance to all spend time together.
The holidays mean spending more time with those that I love. I particularly like shopping for the perfect gift to make everyone happy.
The holidays for us is spending time with family and friends and appreciating another year of our lives with each other. Lots of great food and making memories.
The holidays means that friends and family are getting together. That we ignore all the bad in the world and connect together. That we watch the kids eyes when they open presents. It’s more about finding that perfect gift for someone and seeing their reaction and getting no presents at all that satisfies me.
Oh to use they mean spending quality time together being thankful for life. Its so wonderful to get all the kids, grandkids, and great grandkids together and just enjoy each others company.
It means getting to spend time with my family who I don’t get to see very often.
Holidays are all about family. We love to spend time together and laugh and eat good food. Those are things that are really important — not the presents.
Holidays are important because they help people make peace with family members and get to see people in a good spirits hopefully. Good food and lovely decorations make special some days even if for a short time.
The holidays mean love, friendship and togetherness. I have so many great many memories of Christmas past.
The holidays are for making memories and each year being grateful for the family members that are here to partake!!
Holidays to me are about sharing with others and spending time with friends and family.
Thanks for the contest.
It’s that time of year when we all get together for crafts/activites and feasting.
Holidays mean the birth of Jesus our Lord and Savior.
The holidays mean cooking, sharing and spending time with each other. We love to decorate the house and the yard. I love spending time with family, friends and pets.
The holidays mean spending quality time together and being thankful for everything.
Christmas reminds me of memories past – good times with the family. Now, every year, we are making new memories by spending time in a cabin & hiking in the snow!!
They are a time for us to be together and enjoy the spirit of giving!
The holidays means spending time with family that we may not see a lot during the year and being able to catch up.
My family and I love the holidays. We get more time to spend at home together. It is fantastic.
Spending time with friends and family. Celebrating another year together.
The holidays really just stress the fact that we are so far away from our family – states apart. Sometimes we go home to see them, but just as often as not, we stay in our state and celebrate alone. It’s not lonely – just quiet, which is OK sometimes!
The holidays mean to me and my family a time to spend quality periods together catching up.
It means spending time together. Giving to those in need, volunteering our time and spending a lot of time baking!
It means spending time with family and friends.
The holidays mean being off work and being able to spend time listening, talking and enjoying the company of family. For me it means playing with my sons, board games, Xbox games and cards with my parents and of course Great food!
My sister and I both had baby girls this summer who are two weeks apart. The holidays this year will be extra special because we all get to spend time together with the new babies.
The holidays mean everything to us. It is a chance to spend time together. Laugh, cook and eat. In our busy lives we don’t always have much down time so this is amazing for us.
The holidays mean family getting together and memories being made!!
While holidays remind us of the family and friends that surround us, it also is a sad time as we remember my youngest who is no longer with us as she decided at age 22 that suicide was her answer to stop her internal pain.
The holidays mean getting together with family and enjoying one another’s company.
Our family celebrates the holidays by reminiscing on fond memories, creating new ones by trying something new, and being thankful for each other.
They mean getting to see old friends again and family too.