There are 1,786 things around the new house that STILL need to be done around the house. The list is long and tedious, and honestly I try to avoid it. Especially this time of year when I become a motion graphics widow until July. So, the blank walls and the 1981 kitchen? They are just [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]