Or "Try, Try Again"
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 [...]
I've been in Dallas, Texas, for the last few days on our Thanksgiving vacation. Our friends, Ashley and Justin, invited us to stay with them and celebrate Thanksgiving with them this year and we happily took them up on their offer. My sister Phoebe and her husband John live nearby and were invited to join [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Food on Nov 15th, 2007
I'm thinking about practically free things we can do on Monday for Family Home Evening that have to do with Thanksgiving since that holiday is next week, though I can hardly believe it's so soon. I wrote a seperate post here with a list of appropriate LDS music I could use and which are my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2007
Here are some ideas for songs that would be appropriate to sing at a Thanksgiving gathering or for a Thanksgiving FHE. My favorites are Count Your Blessings, Prayer of Thanksgiving, For Health and Strength, and I Thank Thee Dear Father. LDS Hymns (listen to the music, get sheet music, and read the lyrics here: http://www.lds.org/cm/display/0,17631,4650-1,00.html): All [...]
Posted in Religion/Church on Nov 1st, 2007
We went to our ward trunk-or-treat and chili cookoff last night for Halloween and it was great fun. We entered a pot of my 15 minute chili and didn't win, but I thought it tasted good for having made it last minute. There were about 15 pots of chili and I was surprised at the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 31st, 2007
Happy Halloween everyone! Have a safe, festive, and fun holiday. I hope you all get lots of candy if you go trick-or-treating and that you enjoy wearing costumes. This year I asked Degen if he wanted to be a dog, a cat, or Bob the Builder (all costumes I thought I could manage). He chose [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2007
I like Halloween because we get to dress up in unusual costumes and eat with abandon the sweets that will soon make our bodies vulnerable to the imminent flu season. I like it because we get to see our neighbors, even if we don't recognize them through their costumes. I like it because it's another [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 27th, 2007
I like Google. I use gmail, I nearly exclusively use Google as my search engine, and I talk about "googling" things. I use Google to tally up statistics on my web pages. Google is free and has great logos. Yesterday was Yom Kippur, of the Jewish Day of Atonement. Give your repentant Jewish friends a [...]