May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet… enough trials to keep you strong… enough hope to keep you happy… enough friends to give you comfort… and enough determination to make each day… a better day than yesterday. (Recognize it?…these aren’t my words) Wishing you comfort, happiness and joy in the New Year!!

This is our first year where we spent Christmas at our house.  The whole experience has just shoved me that much further into adulthood.  Cooking a Christmas ham, setting out milk and cookies for Santa – an onion for the reindeer(that’s right, I didn’t have any carrots), watching a Charlie Brown Christmas and so many [...]

Do you know what people do in a place that doesn’t get snow during Christmas?  Well now you do… Merry Christmas from sunny San Diego…wish you were here!

…or half way in the tree trying to decorate it.  I was pulling out boxes of ornaments, laying them all neatly in rows in the bay window.  I turn around to assess my children’s  progress on the tree and I see this.  Hudson was hiding as many ornaments as possible (when I wasn’t looking) on [...]

You know all that frustration I mentioned several post ago before Gracie was born?  Thanksgiving?  Turkey Trot?  Yep, those.  This was the partial result of it all.  My goodies, Christmas cards and baby announcements are done.  Can you hear the Hallelujah chorus singing right now?!  Oh how glorious it is.  A nice relaxing holiday, all [...]