Tag Archive: Christmas

Happy Christmas!

I wanted to write a short post to wish you all the very best as I celebrate Christmas with my family. Yes, Christmas is different since I got divorced but each year my ex and I have been able to work it so we each get to have a celebration with our children. I think…

12 ways to enjoy Christmas alone

I’m inserting this post in the middle of Heather-Marie’s, My Divorce Shower series because it occurred to me that with Christmas Eve just three days away, some of you may be spending Christmas alone for the first time and feeling a little anxious or nervous about what to do. Last year, my children were with…

Celebrating the holidays after divorce

Yesterday I shared how Sue celebrated her first Christmas after divorce with a surprise trip to Disneyland for her children. Today I’d like to talk a little about parenting time over the holidays. Sue’s parenting agreement calls for the children to be with one parent on Christmas Eve day and evening and then to go…

The First Christmas After Divorce

I interviewed Sue about six months ago and at the time she spoke about her most significant accomplishment as being gaining the confidence to go after her ex for back child-support. During that same interview she told me how she and her daughters celebrated their first Christmas after the divorce. *** When the kids were…