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 [...]

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 [...]

I feel like I should write some relatively eloquent post about prepping to spend our first Christmas in the new house. But every time I sit down to start, I also start thinking about all the other things that I need to do. Upshot, the christmas cards are ordered now. But that doesn’t make the [...]

Tis the time of year. With the holidays approaching, the mail box is getting filled with bills, Etsy purchases, and requests for money. From organizations that we have previously given money too, and some that we haven’t. Previously, I wrote about my experience giving money to non-profits last year as Christmas gifts for relatives that [...]