2021 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 14 – Time to Shine!
Look at this happy kid! Tonight was Christopher’s Christmas program at school that he’s been looking forward to for weeks. Seriously, we’ve be...
Year: 2021
2021 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 13 – The Purr-fect Present…
In hindsight I feel kind of dumb, but I honestly had no idea that the one and only Eartha Kitt of Catwoman fame was the original singer back in 1953 to perform ...
2021 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 9 – Snorkeling for Santa
Kids are nuts sometimes. Despite installing a solar heater for our pool this summer and loving it for months after that, I don’t think we’ve been sw...
2021 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 8 – Old Enough to Snoop…
So apparently the kids have figured out where we keep their Christmas presents. Granted, it’s not really much of a hiding place as it is a giant stack of ...
2021 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 5 – Colors of the World
Apparently these came out last year and Crayola has been working to be inclusive of various cultures for decades, but this was the first I’ve seen them wh...
2021 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 4 – Merry Mario-Mas!
For what it’s worth, I’m not super crazy about the Mario Kart iOS game because I feel like the controls are a pain in the butt compared to the conso...
2021 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 3 – It Was Beginning to Look a Lot Like Savings…
This sketch is technically from last season on SNL, but I love it so much it’s one of those videos that I have to watch whenever it pops up on social medi...
2021 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 2 – Movie Thoughts … 8-Bit Christmas
When I first stumbled across the announcement for this movie, I was super excited. I mean, if there’s ever been a movie that seems to be tailored for me, ...
2021 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 1 – Night of a Million Lights
I’ve really missed a Christmas light display like this since Disney got rid of the Osborne Family Lights at Hollywood Studios a few years ago, so when I s...
Coronavirus, Day 625 – The Family That Vaccinates Together…
I’m happy to report that as of this weekend, our entire family has been vaccinated against COVID-19 with the kids getting their first Pfizer shots on Satu...