This is not my best week, you guys. Monday was just awful. The kids weren't back in school yet and I had to work (and catch up on everything non-US based people were doing while I was eating enough pie and sweet potatoes to choke an elephant), but it was just one day. I figured I… Continue reading This Week’s Score: 3.5
Category: Holidays
Advent, Day 2
We put up a cling set of a nativity on the kitchen window that's down by the table where they can reach. They made the design decisions and I bit my tongue rather firmly. See the stars, how there's one off to the right that's a different shape? That's because it's a chicken. "I know… Continue reading Advent, Day 2
Here Come the Holidays
We had a really lovely Thanksgiving. It feels a little wrong to have had such a nice time on the first year that Mom wasn't with us, but there it is. I think maybe it's that our Thanksgiving tradition in the past few years has been fluid. There wasn't a particular chair to be empty, or… Continue reading Here Come the Holidays
Holiday Adventures
We had some. For several years now, my immediate family has been meeting at Niagara Falls for our family Christmas. It works out really well - the Canadian branch has a shorter drive but has to deal with a border crossing, and the Ohio branch gets to skip the border but drives a little bit… Continue reading Holiday Adventures
Merry Christmas!
Wrapping paper is all over the floor, breakfast is in the oven, Papa has read about the journey to Bethlehem, and Mama has been crowned with a glo-stick coronet. It must be Christmas. Hope yours is merry!