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The Holidays in the REAL World

Holidays are too much for little bodies.... but it's okay.

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Jon Fogel
Dec 02, 2025
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There’s a picture I keep coming back to every December. It’s not framed, or staged.

It’s not even an actual photo at all, just a memory still-frame

My youngest is screaming on the den floor of a house we no longer live in, wearing a red sweater that “IS SO SO SO ITCHY.” The tree lights are half falling off the tree and just a little too bright. A discar…

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