holidays

Cultivating a Sense of Reverence in your Family Home

Reverence is a fundamental spiritual quality that enables us to connect with the divine and experience a sense of awe ...

A Balanced Approach to Holiday Feasting

Feasting is a tradition for many who celebrate a holiday this month. Sometimes my family can experience stomach upsets when ...

Beauty, Community and Sweetness: Celebrating Eid ul-Fitr

Like Muslims throughout time and the world over, my young family and I look forward to the month of Ramadan ...

The Importance of Warmth in Early Childhood

At birth, a child leaves the warm watery world of the womb and enters the earthly world.  They meet the ...
Nowruz

Simple Preparations For Nowruz

I am passionate about renewing the festivals that are important to us so that we celebrate them in a way ...

Simple Preparations for Hanukkah

I am passionate about renewing the festivals that are important to us so that we celebrate them in a way ...

Simple Preparations for Meaningful Gift Giving

In our home we try to keep gifts simple, small, meaningful, purposeful, and quite often handmade, as well as balancing ...

Simple Preparations for a Lantern Walk

On November 11, children around the world gathering together with homemade lanterns of all colours, shapes, sizes, and materials in ...