We’re on Day Three of our Four-Day Babysitting Gig, and it’s at least as rewarding and as exhausting as we’d anticipated. From anytime after 5 A.M. right through until 8:30-ish P.M., the weekend demanded pretty…
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I debated a Five Things Friday post this morning, but who am I kidding? We’re tilting back toward normal schedules after the holiday festivities and family time, the Christmas tree and crèche (the Three (Alessi)…
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I tend not to make resolutions at New Year’s, preferring to adjust goals and aspirations more often. I have used the occasion several times to resolve once again “to want what I have” [rather than…
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Just popping in quickly to say that Christmas was lovely but very busy — Christmas Eve with over 40 of my nearest and dearest (my siblings, their partners, the next generation and the one after…
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When I was growing up, my family always opened our gifts on Christmas Eve, after dinner and bathtime and admonition to stay upstairs until Santa Claus had made his early stop and was jingling a…
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