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How to Recreate Your Family's Christmas Traditions After Your Parents Have Died
Grief and Remembering Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26 Grief and Remembering Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26

How to Recreate Your Family's Christmas Traditions After Your Parents Have Died

You can't make Christmas exactly the way your parents did, because they were the main ingredient. What you can do is bring back the parts that mattered most (the food, the music, the order of Christmas morning, the thing your dad said every single year) and rebuild them in your own home, two or three at a time.

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Rally Takes the Train

A real corgi, a real train, and the grand-paw-rents waiting at the end of the line. Hand-painted, rhyming, and read again every night.

Written by Kelsey Lizee Cecil · Illustrated by Leslie Dunn · Ages 0 to 8 · 4.9 stars on Amazon

This website and book were made as a memorial to my parents, Thomas and Debra Lizee. Eric, Matt, the kids, and I miss you.

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