Happy Holidays

I hope that you all are having a wonderful Holiday Season. We celebrated Christmas at our house. I have been sitting here, listening to the silence and stillness that comes to the house after everyone is in bed, and looking back through all the pictures that I took in the days leading up to Christmas [...]

Days of Christmas

(pssst. let’s just drop the daily countdown, shall we? I certainly don’t need to create any new pressure for myself this holiday season. :~) )

Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree…

This year I decided that I wanted something a little different from the usual Fraser Firs that we get. I spotted a nice Douglas Fir [...]

Nine Days of Christmas:: 8 & 7 pt. 1

(I knew I shouldn’t have promised to make daily posts during this crazy busy time of year. :~))

Baby’s first Christmas

I try to remind myself that even though I feel so unorganized and behind this Christmas, and even though it is mostly because I have a baby or small child on my person 24/7, that [...]

Nine Days of Christmas::9

I was supposed to do a Twelve Days of Christmas thingy, but the last three days have been a blur. These days I feel more like a milking maid than a dancing lady, but nine is a good place to start. At least I think I can talk about Christmas for nine days.

Let’s see, I [...]

Mixed blessing

The sky cleared a little this evening just long enough to see the sun in it’s last 10 minutes of glory before it dipped below the horizon. I was in the kitchen washing the dishes, when I noticed out of the corner of my eye that everything looked different outside. In stark contrast to all [...]

Mystic Cheerios

What goes down must come up. I’m not talking about the economy which, I fear, has a lot more down to go.

No, I’m talking about this past week. It’s just been one of those weeks when, try as hard as I can, I can’t keep the doldrums away. It’s nothing serious, and I eventually [...]