Happy New Year! My year is going about 50/50 so far. We had a WONDERFUL New Year’s Day open house yesterday, with tons of friends, tons of food, tons of drink, and tons of windows open because it was an ungodly 50 degrees outside. I decided yesterday that my favorite thing about our huge [...]
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I’m excited to be participating in Jen’s Holiday Homes Tour this year. Last year, I missed the tour by a couple of days because my family always decorates way late (as in, the weekend before Christmas.) Welcome! As you can see, our celebration of Christmas begins with the celebration of Advent. Lucky me, I [...] Advent (n): A coming into place, viewing or being; arrival (usually initial capital letter) the coming of Christ into the world (usually initial capital letter) the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas, observed in commemoration of the coming of Christ into the world It is officially the season of Advent in the Catholic Church and I love it. We light candles, wear purple, and hold our collective breath, waiting for that wonderful [...] Did you know that my favorite holiday is coming up? It’s true. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year, closely followed by Christmas and my birthday. I love Thanksgiving – its reflective, thoughtful nature, its quiet, time-honored traditions, its obnoxiously upbeat and unapologetically sentimental parade, its piles and piles of damn fine food. This year, [...] (Yes, we let Abby watch The Nightmare Before Christmas this weekend.) (No, it was not entirely for my edification. She actually enjoyed the movie.) I love Halloween! It’s one of my favorite holidays, with the costumes and the candy and the silly, scary stuff. Abby seems to be really having fun with it this [...] We have been watching a lot of episodes of the Cosby Show lately. Abby has fallen in love with the characters and Brian and I have fallen back in love with the writing and snappy dialogue. (We were both around 7 when the show premiered and remember watching it with OUR parents as kids.) [...] Today is birthday. I am 34 years old. I thought I’d give you a rundown of what my life looks like today, by the numbers. Number of birthday wishes on my Facbeook account: 27 and counting Number of birthday kisses Abby gave me: at least 4 Number of birthday kisses Brian gave me: undisclosed [...] I think that dropping my daughter off on the campus where I went to high school is causing a ginormous case of the nostalgias. Compound that with a birthday coming up next week, a request from my class correspondent to share a favorite college memory, and a family Cosby-Show-a-Thon, and yeah. I’m pretty much livin’ [...] If you’ve read this blog for any length of time (or know me personally), you know that I live in one of those fun, multi-generational houses, like all the cool kids are doing these days. There are many people living here all of whom work or go to school full-time (some of us both [...] First off, thanks to all of you who expressed doubt in my estimate of when Abby will have her preschool classroom completely under her control. I tend to agree with you, three weeks was a rather conservative estimate. Especially since her teacher told me at pickup yesterday, “You have a very bright young lady [...]  |
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