All Things Home and Family
It’s a bad feeling. This let down feeling after a week of busy fun with the family. All the old familiar quiet is filled with heaviness. We play music; which doesn’t help much. Too much happened in such a short time. The memories would be gone to me if I didn’t have the photographs, because… Continue reading After Christmas Blues
The best part of Christmas family time is right here for me. Gwen appears to have a secret, but she doesn't...she is quite honest with her opinions. Benny only wants to be sure that we aren't ignoring him and giving Gwen more attention than what he gets.The best man in the world. No question!They came… Continue reading Christmas Pictures
We did the traditional cookie baking here last week and the week before, too. I bought more almond bark this year than ever before. We coated peanut butter balls, coconut balls, shortbread, kringles, and pretzels. I didn't mean to have a one track mind; just did, that's all. Charlotte made those cookies with the jam… Continue reading Christmas Cookies
Years ago the local dump was at the end of the road where you backed the pick-up tailgate over the edge of a smoggy pit, shoved the trash off, and then drove away. Everything went in there and slowly burned or rusted away. A bulldozer nearby made sure it was confined and neatly buried eventually… Continue reading Trash Disposal
...But only for two weeks. I love our fig tree of living green all winter in a land of snow and cold. It's twenty below this morning!I am just looking for a more spacious feeling in our house for over the holidays while the married children are here.
We tell our children that tomorrow's world is going to be much different than today's. We tell them that they will have worse or more intense evil to face and to teach their children against. It's a scary future if you get to focusing on the news or listening to too much VCY America radio. Being… Continue reading Wake Up Call For Us Moms
I had a bad bug in my computer. This bug would throw up red boxes onto my screen at random and then emit a fierce weird scream. Besides it held the whole security system hostage. I could not scan for it. I could not put it in quarantine. And as I frantically tried to gather… Continue reading Reformatting December 2010
I have always considered this carol to be a little fanciful, maybe not quite accurate. It was written in protest during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Some of you are old enough to remember those days when tension ran high between the United States government and the Russian leader, Khrushchev. Russia was building… Continue reading ‘Do You Hear What I Hear?’
I have wonderful memories of ice-skating all my growing up years. We always had a puzzle to work in the evening after we had frozen our toes skating on the creek (pronounced krik) ice. I will never forget the return of feelings in my toes and the resulting pain. It is a wonder we… Continue reading Ice-Skating
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