It’s nine in the morning and I’ve already missed an appointment! The plan was to go to the PTA meeting, but I hadn’t arranged with Colin to watch the kids and didn’t really think about it until 8:39 and by then the 8:30 meeting had already started and it’s a 15 minute drive away. Hopefully [...]
Tag Archive 'christmas'
Back again
Posted in Family on Dec 12th, 2008
Our host disappered with all our sites a couple of months ago, but Colin’s got us back up again. Yay Colin! I’m missing a ton of posts from July through October, but at least we have everything from before July this time around. Yay backups! So, what’s been going on here? Hmmmm… Thanksgiving in Arizona [...]
Christmas in Phoenix
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2007
We just decided we're going to Phoenix for Christmas! (Thanks Mom and Dad!) I am soooo excited! We're going to drive out there, so it'll be a long trip, but we generally have great road trips so it shouldn't be too bad. So, this year I don't have the responsibility of creating a Christmas celebration at [...]
Christmas Traditions Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2007
I know it's not even Thanksgiving yet, but I like to have a long Christmas season, and I've already talked about Thanksgiving a lot. Plus, we're going to someone else's house for Thanksgiving this year, where it looks like for the first time ever Christmas is going to be at our house. That means we [...]
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Posted in Things I Like on Nov 15th, 2007
It's time again for one of my very favorite holiday traditions: reading A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. I read it at least once every year, sometimes more than once, and I can hardly think of anything else that brings the holiday spirit into my life and mood more, except perhaps less prosey and more [...]
Family Traditions
Posted in Young Women on Apr 24th, 2007
In a couple of weeks I'll be teaching a combined Young Women lesson on family traditions, so I thought it would be useful to list some of my favorite family traditions (some of my parents' and some of the traditions Colin and I have, too). Having a Passover Seder every year Easter baskets Christmas: cinnamon [...]