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holidays
Generations
The Step-Grandmother and the Blended Family History
On the wall of the Saunders-Mott family kitchen in Burlington, Vermont, there are seventeen framed photographs. The newest, from June 2025, shows a Christmas dinner with twenty-three people in it. The family has been counting itself, with some difficulty, since 2009.
Family Rituals
The Second Thanksgiving
A Halifax family invented their own November holiday a decade ago and have kept it through divorce, illness, and a child leaving home.