I figured I had better come and update. Life has been getting the better of me lately, but when it was pointed out to me that the last time I went on an extended absense this time of year it was because I had news that I couldn’t announce until immediate family members (aka, the [...]

I’d been thinking about doing this, and then Linda at All & Sundry posted this list, and it was easier to answer the questions than to think of ones to answer myself. A new tradition? If I can remember I did this next year ;) 1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never [...]

  Wishing you and yours a Happy Christmas!      

I should lead this off by saying that as a child, I wanted for nothing. We always had enough of everything. And then some. We weren’t OVERLY spoiled, but we were certainly not hurting either. But even with that, there were a lot of Christmases that came with a fair amount of disappointment on my [...]

I haven’t been feeling the whole Christmas thing this year. I know that part of that is the Christmas Creep the retailers impose on us. When Christmas trees start appearing in stores in September I totally roll my eyes. By October, I’m sort of intrugied and start to think of the season ahead, and by [...]