Month: December 2013

 It seems I have won one of these………….                                           And I was like WHAT????  I don’t even win in bunco let alone a blog prize, but I got friends in the right places and my OSMA nominated me.  She is a blog/cyber friend.  Sometimes when something funny happens at work I think to myself, … Read more

The other day our Christmas cards came and unbeknownst to me at the time of order, they required additional postage. Oh dear baby Jesus, why oh why is everything so hard for me this year? I decided not to go to my usual post office but rather one in a cute little shopping district with … Read more

As soon as they said there was one less week this year between Thanksgiving and Christmas I knew I was doomed.  I will never get everything done in time was my immediate thought.  So much to do…… I have shopped but not finished.  I ordered Christmas cards that haven’t even been shipped yet.  We thought … Read more

When the kids were very little and most of the Christmas shopping was for toys, I asked Mark to take a day off work to help me.  I was overwhelmed with three kids with three different interests.  To be clear, Mark RARELY takes time off work.  A few days between Christmas and New Year’s and … Read more

Prior to meeting Mark, my encounters with nature were few and unintended.  One time a blue jay attacked my brother when he was going out the front door and he went screaming into the house.  Unbeknownst to him there were some babies in the vicinity, but from that point on Mom always referred to them … Read more

When my dad got a little older and had more time, he got very involved in the Christmas decorating.  He would go down into the crawl space and whack his head a couple dozen times getting the boxes up and unpacked.  Of special importance was the full Nativity scene we had that was lovingly wrapped … Read more

Several years ago when this Black Friday business was still in its infancy, Maggie suggested that her and I get up early and do some shopping. “It will be fun,” she said, “and we can bond.” By 6:15 I was backing sleepy-eyed her and me out of the driveway. We laughed at the foolishness of … Read more