Lingering Later
When the time passes by so quickly that you didn’t realize you were lingering later than your normal bedtime (and the kids) it was a good night. When the winter chill has you indoors, the setting sun doesn’t give you Read More …
Tag: holiday
Holidays and Hand Grenades
For some reason, it happens all the time…just when it looks like it is time to relax, we are closing in on the holidays, and hand grenades start flying. I know people don’t mean to do it. But they do. Read More …
Sealed and Mailed
Every year at Christmastime, people go above and beyond with their cards…sealed and mailed (hopefully) at the latest, by today. Yea, sorry if I am breaking this news to you, but today was the deadline to get them mailed off Read More …
Long Days Ahead
This past week, with 3 snow events (and counting) have been long, but the longest week is still to come. The last week before Christmas Day means we have seemingly long days ahead. In reality, they are the shortest of Read More …
There Are Limits
There are limits to what people can accept, handle and allow to happen in their home. People who have listed a home for sale or been selected for a holiday house tour know this better than most. On the two Read More …
Holiday Schedule
Does your workplace follow a strict holiday schedule? Do you set official days you are closed, or do you follow a standard weekly schedule with just the national (aka bank) holiday days off – the days when no one comes Read More …
Give Yourself Permission
Over this long holiday weekend, did you give yourself permission? To over indulge? or To say no to another slice of pie even though they already cut it for you? To buy nothing? or To buy everything you needed/wanted to Read More …
Days Then Hours
The count down to the holidays start with weeks of planning…it always seems like we have more than enough days then hours left, until – just like that – it is over. There is always great anticipation, a little bit Read More …
Bridging the Holidays
Early Thanksgiving means that we are quite literally bridging the holidays…there really is no choice; at least for us, we have family on both sides of the river. So, I guess I mean literally and figuratively. It just seems a Read More …
Everybody Around the Table
In our home and all of our family, we have an age old tradition where we say grace and then finish with a sing-songy affirmation of how we love everybody around the table. My grandmother started this (probably my grandfather, Read More …