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part 2 why we stopped giving our kids christmas presents (year 3 update). part 2 why we stopped giving our kids christmas presents (year 3 update) to read why we stopped giving our kids traditional christmas gifts). on the chance that you follow along with my life on instagram, you may have noticed that i shared a pic of my living room with a film set up for a taping for good morning america. you guys, can i just tell you last year i shared why we stopped giving our children traditional christmas presents and the responses that i got blew my mind! from the emails, messages and comments i received i could definitely tell that something in my story struck a chord with a lot of readers. so here i at this time last year i was finishing up planning for our first family ski trip.  we spent christmas in vermont and had maybe the best trip ever and i am sharing our tips today so that you can have a winning ski trip too!  some of these may seem common sense, but when you are packing for your entire family, it can be easy to overlook things that may save your sanity.  with that in mind, i've also … like santa, i've been making a list and checking it twice.  sadly, mine isn't as simple as a nice or na*ghty list; it's my seemingly never ending to do list and it has a way of growing as the holidays approach.  getting my house in tip top shape before company visits is room about a year ago we started talking about buying some comfortable couches.  the couches we had worked well enough (they were hand me downs from my parents!), but if we were having a binge session nobody was comfortable.  we wanted to make a super cozy and apfel (apple) kuchen (cake) a few years ago my hubby and i went on a dream vacation through europe.  we spent most of our time in germany and we just fell madly in love with the country.  the land, the people, the food and most definitely the beer are all just incredible. i was so determined that i wouldn't get that i didn't even mention it to my husband because i didn't want to admit the rejection that i knew