2012 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 22 – A Feast of Holiday Snackitude!
What can I say? From the endless desserts and cookies to the holiday ham, the food is a big part of what I love about this time of year! Growing up, one of the ...
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In 2011 I started this tradition of blogging each day leading up to Christmas as a special means to share the holiday spirit in my own little way…
2012 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 21 – Christmas Cards, Scaled Back
This year we didn’t end up going with a photo card like we have the last couple of years – we were just too busy to get a decent photo taken, life h...
2012 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 20 – For Scott and Cleo, From Sara…
My wife and I try to keep up the holiday tradition where each year we buy a new ornament for our tree – some years we’ve gone in and picked a few ou...
2012 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 19 – Mom’s Awesome Santa Cookies
Needless to say, it’s not just awesome pumpkin cookies that my Mom is known for – in fact, I would argue that I think I probably look forward to her...
2012 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 18 – Cleo May Be Sweet, But She’s No Odie…
This morning while I was finishing up in the bathroom, I looked over to see Cleo scurry under the bed a couple of feet away in our bedroom. The first thing that...
2012 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 17 – Walking in a Partially-Lit Wonderland
Though admittedly I was kinda hoping to find that the neighborhood we moved into earlier this year would be a hotbed of outdoor decorating enthusiasts who all p...
2012 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 16 – “Gardening … electrical contracting …”
I’m pretty sure that my sister and I could both still recite this entire song from the Garfield Christmas Special word for word – if I get to count ...
2012 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 15 – Some Faith in Humanity for 2012
It seems impossible to make sense of the tragedy that happened yesterday … 20 children and 6 of their educators murdered in the very halls meant to foster...
2012 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 14 – Merry Fishmas!!!
I swear, this one just slays me* whenever I see it in the store!!! I’ve bought them before and they’re not even very good chocolate, but still, noth...
2012 Holiday Advent Blog – Day 13 – Random Acts of Kindness
I love it when the holidays bring out the best in people, like in the case of 87 year-old Patsy Roberts. She’s a victim of Hurricane Sandy who loved to co...