After all the celebrating and family get-togethers over Christmas Eve, Christmas morning and Christmas night it was nice to spend a few days relaxing and laying around. I spent quite a bit of time reading my book A Red Herring Without Mustard – a book which I have now finished. I’ll be putting my review [...]
Christmas Eve! Our family does the big Christmas celebration on Christmas Eve – the whole big extended family gathers at Nick’s grandparents house and we do a gift exchange. Because there are just so many people, and in turn so many presents, this night has become a tradition of tapas and small plates rather than [...]
Whew! What a day yesterday, my goodness you guys. I was torn between ADD middle schooler just before summer vacation and serious worker-bee that wants to get her projects done correctly and timely. All I can say is… I’m on vacation now! Yesterday wasn’t all work though, I met up with the Ladies Who Lunch [...]
I’m in a rather festive mood this morning! I took the boys out for a drive around town last night in search of houses with over the top Christmas decor. We found a couple really awesome places and even one house that had so many lights in was practically day-light in their yard. It was [...]
Every year at Thanksgiving we go around the table and say what we are thankful for what we want for Christmas. Odd as it may seem, this strategy has proven quite useful for our incredibly large extended family. Even if we don’t go exactly by the list it helps to get a feel for what [...]
