Every year, every December, without fail, I get sick. Last year, I managed to escape with just a cold. Usually it’s more like the walking dead … you know the kind … in bed, covers pulled up, lights out, full do not disturb mode. Yesterday it hit. The small meal I just had for dinner […]
When the holiday catalogs start coming in, we gather them in a pile and pick an evening to sit down and start going through them so Nicholas can decide what he’d like for Christmas. I love watching him do it. He doesn’t go blazing through page after page circling everything he can. He goes slowly, […]
‘Tis the season for giving, and there are so many different ways to do it. The Salvation Army team outside your favorite grocery stores, your local Boy and Girl scouts, your church and then some. It’s certainly hard to find a worthy cause. We “adopted” the wishes of two children from the local grocery store; […]
For over 10 years, every December, my mom and I would head to Bethlehem, PA for an overnight getaway. Unfortunately, the last few years, we haven’t made it there, but today The Husband and I loaded the kids up in the car and headed out for a fun day trip.
Bethlehem is home to the Christkindlmarkt, […]
Ten months? Ten months? And Christmas is in two weeks? Geesh, it’s like a runaway train.
Madeline finally has two more teeth poking through, thank goodness. She had a few days over the weekend where she would wake up and literally scream bloody murder for 30 minutes or so, and nothing would calm her down. I’m […]
