Tag Archives: holidays

It’s late, we blew things up and I made a movie

  That’s all for tonight folks. We didn’t swim today because we think the pool was closed. Didn’t look too closely though. Tomorrow will be swimming and sunburning likely.

New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain

Well it isn’t quite New Year’s day but we had some family stuff going on that precluded writing. I am relieved that 61 straight days of blogging is over. I’m glad I did it. I made more connections out of #Reverb10 after a bumpy start. I really enjoyed the people I’ve been reading and will add them to my blogroll… (more…)

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection ~Pindar

December 30 – Gift Prompt: Gift. This month, gifts and gift-giving can seem inescapable. What’s the most memorable gift, tangible or emotional, you received this year? (Author: Holly Root)   I’ve really run out of steam on these. I think because I started with nablopomo the first of November. This year J got me a Buddha cat  necklace (by Gary… (more…)

Fayetteville Family Holiday Help

What I worked on today and tonight. http://fayfamilyhelp.weebly.com/   I started thinking, after I was searching for and purchasing some presents for the Bean, how sad I would feel if I couldn’t get her the things she wants. And honestly other than the rarer than diamonds Monster High Dolls, the only thing she’s asked for is a microscope (I found… (more…)

Spooky decor

The Bean is feeling sick today. Perhaps the big stay up late party (we let her have a late night every few months, this month she got two–Halloween and our friend’s birthday party –lots of her friends and screaming around) so I don’t have a lot of time –she needs her snuggling and a movie or two. A decorative retrospection… (more…)

Xmess Seasonings

They had an all volunteer nativity pageant (complete with bunnies and wise women and extra stars)at Church today. Emily was a Shepherd and James was a sheep. It was so cute my head exploded. Then they started singing while she was up there and she was having none of it. A small shepherd meltdown. She was the youngest up there,… (more…)