Making favorite family recipes helps us hold onto loved ones we miss.
Family Traditions
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Valentine’s Day without your spouse can be hard, especially for the first time.
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Remember that you have options about how to cope with the holidays after the death of a person you love.
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Eating is the ultimate social activity; we build relationships around the irreplaceable pleasure of sharing food with others.
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Whenever a family member dies, there is a process that a healthy family undergoes in response to the loss of one of its own. That process is called “role reorganization.”
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One great way to get your children thinking about their family’s history is to interview older family members about their own holiday traditions when they were young. And there’s no …
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Knish is the sort of food that collects adjectives like “humble” and “homey.”
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For Lisa’s Norwegian family, Thanksgiving isn’t complete without the soft flatbread lefse, a dish that always reminds the family of their mother-grandmother, Emma.
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The Polish dishes she prepares at Thanksgiving remind Estelle of her father, who loved them all.
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Every Thanksgiving, Maddie’s family looked forward to her mom’s pasteles.