Page 31 2025 Home For The Holidays Lincoln Daily News on some decorations is acceptable. Some households just decorate with a tree and its lights. Others decorate outside, inside, and even have candy canes and bows on the kitchen cabinet handles and a Santa face on the toilet. If you have a ton of decorations, don’t put them all up this year, put them in another plastic tub and rotate them next year. There are some staple items from grandma or the first Christmas holiday gift that you feel you have to put out, just reduce some of the extra work and time of going overboard. Long gone are the days when your kids were really cute all dressed up in Christmas outfits with patent leather shoes, shiny bows, smiles on their faces when they saw the house lit up with decorations, and the tree full of ornaments from years past. Keep remembering that when your kids come home, they are toggling between wanting to be the child they used to be, wanting you to be the parent you used to be and the adult that they are becoming or have been. So just embrace and enjoy every moment and holiday you can by setting realistic boundaries, don’t sweat the small stuff and remember nothing, nor anyone, is ever perfect. JA Hodgdon-Ruppel Sources: https://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/ letting-go-of-holiday-expectations/ https://northernvirginiamag.com/ family/2023/12/07/how-to-survive-collegekids-coming-home-for-the-holidays/ https://www.pamelahenkelman.com/articles/ managing-holiday-expectations-with-adultchildren-tips-for-a-joyful-holiday-season
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