Sometimes I get so caught up in writing about things that are happening or have happened in my life, I forget that I am also just busy living this life. There is a lot happening and going on around me and with my friends and family and even my on-line life. Each new day brings…
Wrapping Challenge(d)
You know what is important when wrapping gifts? Tape. And Scissors. Somehow during my marathon wrapping sessions I typically misplace one or both about 30 times or so. Of course they are always in the same place – underneath the large sheet of wrapping paper that I just unrolled from the roll. You know you’ve been there…
Holiday Scenes
I like to think that I am creating holiday traditions for my children that they will carry on into their own families someday. Every year I buy a gingerbread house kit for the kids and they enjoy putting it together, and of course, eating it. My mother use to make sugar cookies for us to…
The Miracles
“It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season – like all the other seasons –…
How To Take Holiday Family Photos Without Really Trying*
It is usually a bit of a challenge to get our own family photos for our yearly holiday/Christmas card. Partly because I don’t usually hire anyone else to do it and partly because my husband and children are all, “This again!?!?” when we really only take them formally once a year a few times a year….
Halloween, Twenty Fourteen!
This Halloween included a photo shoot along with Mummy dogs and of course, Trick-or-Treating! This mural is on a game/comic book store not too far from our house and the boys were especially “game” (ha! I crack myself up!) to take their picture in front of it. After that we hung out in our…
Easter Ease
Have you ever wished you could just beam yourself somewhere? Seriously, how cool would it be if we could really do that thing they used to do on Star Trek? (I mean, not really a fan of the show except for that part… I was more of a Three’s Company kind of gal. Still am…
Valentine’s Old School Blogging!
This month Tamara and I decided to go with the Love/Valentine’s theme for Old School Blogging. We came up with the questions together but I have to give her full credit for the “Say Anything” one below, which I think is so great! Tamara is a newer blog friend and I am SO glad I…
Super Easy Valentine Art
I have a little bit of left-over scrapbooking paper. And when I say a “little bit” I actually a whole heck of a lot. And yet I still buy more. (Please don’t tell my husband). I still like to paper craft but honestly I do not do it very often. I always think in my…
So This Was Christmas
It is not often that you see a rainbow and a potential pot of gold in December but see it we did, as the kids and I headed to Texas for Christmas. Don’t worry, Tim met us there after his weekend of hunting… As you’ll see in the photos below, a wonderful time…