Chloe and Steele got “Heelies” from Santa for Christmas. In case you don’t know, they are shoes with wheels that can be put under the heals. Santa was given instructions to buy a boys size 3 and a girls size 2. On Christmas morning Steele couldn’t begin to get his foot into the size 3 [...]
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I have a real soft spot for my blogger friends. I hope you are all happy whatever it is you celebrate this time of year … or even if you don’t celebrate I still hope you’re happy.
People tell me I am clever. Sometimes it isn’t clever to be clever. If you’ve ever written a clever Christmas letter you are expected to do an even cleverer letter the next year. Then all of a sudden you come to a non clever year and you are up an artificial Christmas Tree without a [...]
Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies, Peanut Brittle, English Toffee, Fudge, & Farm House Cookies mingled their delicious aromas in my kitchen today! My daughter and I and her two daughters had a fun baking day! We are all feeling kind of sugared out tonight because of all the tasting to make sure everything was as it should [...]
Last night Chloe and Steele were being wild and crazy and it was time to settle them down so we started chatting about Christmas. Angi reminded them of Icabod … the special elf assigned to our family for generations. He has even been known to make special home visits at family parties. Chloe and Steele [...]
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Because we were in Washington for the last three weeks we didn’t have our Christmas tree up. Chloe, who is seven, couldn’t stand it any longer. She said, “Grandma, aren’t we even going to put up a tree this year or have a Christmas party?” It wasn’t so much the words I guess, as the [...]
The time went by way too fast and here I am packing up my bags to go home after three fun weeks with the Washington half of the family. It doesn’t matter how long we stay there is never enough time. This morning started with snuggle bunnies crawling into my bed, one at a time [...]
I finally got to see “Hairspray” and it was as good as everyone told me it would be. I can’t wait until tomorrow so I can see it again. I need to get the sound track so I can blast it through the house on cleaning day. I loved the singing and dancing and the [...]
I’m sure you’ve noticed my blogs have slowed down. It’s not that I don’t have time to blog so much as that when I sit down to write and I can’t think of anything to write about except what the children are doing. Today was Luca’s 1st grade Christmas program. It started at 1:00 PM [...]
My daughter records Oprah so she can watch them when she has some free time and I happened to watch one last night that really touched me. Mitch Albom, author of “For One More Day” was a guest, along with Kris Carlson whose husband Richard is known for writing “Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff”. Mitch [...]
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