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News Round-Up Dec. 23: Miracle Tsunami Survivor, Bad Presents and Shifting Childhood Memories

What we’re reading today:

1. What to do if your in-laws try to change your time-honoured holiday traditions.

2. Ever had a bad gift? While we feel we’ve been pretty lucky on that front, we do know some people who just can’t give presents right. Well know you can air your gift-grievances on http://whydidyoubuymethat.com. Of course you can.

3. As much as we strive to make happy memories for our kids, research shows those memories don’t really finalize until about age 10. (So what your 5-year-old remembers about her first couple Christmases might be gone in a couple years)

4. Here’s a Festivus Miracle for you: A girl thought lost to the Indonesia tsunami seven years ago has been found.

5. Planning to stick a real baby in your Nativity play? Here’s how to properly stick on in swaddling clothes:

Retro

Your Best Cottage Memories

Vintage photos and candid quotes to help you wax nostalgic about the cottage

Photo via y3110w

When you remember your kid self up at the family cottage all those summers ago, what do you picture? Are you sprawled across a hammock in the shade with a Judy Blume book resting on your stomach? Digging for pieces of sea glass in the sand and carefully cleaning them off so they shine like precious jewels? Listening, wide-eyed, as one of your parents tells an old ghost story around the campfire with melted chocolate and marshmallows smeared all over your face?

We’ve rounded up our readers’ favourite memories and retro cottage photos, so if you’re aiming to make this summer the one that your kids remember forever and ever (and tell their own kids about), look no further for inspiration than the halycon days of your own childhood.