Holiday Happenings at Home

You know how months and months of waking up to the blasted alarm wears you down? And how making a kazillion PB&J sandwiches gets tiresome? How, eventually, the workout routine becomes–yawn–boring? How Monday after Monday after Monday of sorting, washing, folding and putting away socks and t-shirts gets redundant? How there comes a point when [...]

My little guy is tucked snuggly beneath his covers. Cinnamon rolls have been left to rise. The fire is all aglow. Shadows cast by candle flames dance across the dark room. My heart misses my baby girls. But Grams and Gramps help to make my spirit bright. Baby it’s cold outside. I’m warm though.  Here [...]

We had Christmas on Saturday. I realize that Saturday was but the 12th of December.  Still, we had Christmas. We sometimes have Christmas on a day other than the real thing.  Because three of our children will be elsewhere come the 25th. At their dads.  They’ll be at their dads. So we pick a day [...]