Merry Christmas To All (from our family to yours)

| December 23, 2011

(this year’s christmas card. the result of a half hour of pain and suffering and the miracle of photoshop!) (may everyone have a wonderful christmas and be filled with joy!)

A Christmas Tour of the Little Blue House

| December 20, 2011

Come on in! I’ve always loved the years when we’ve been living in a house with a banister to decorate with lights. The garland has definitely seen better days, and I have an entire spool of ribbon that didn’t make it up, but I love it just the same. Heading into the dining room, the [...]

Amateur Night At The Wedding

| December 19, 2011

Top Five Helpful Hints for the Amateur Wedding Photographer 1.) Offer to pay for a professional photographer. It’s cheaper than the years of therapy from the load of guilt that you may end up with. 2.) Go do 50 squats while holding your camera. Then power walk a couple hundred feet. Repeat, over and over [...]

Just Not In The Kitchen, Dear

| December 14, 2011

I can’t be the only one out there that doesn’t enjoy cooking with their kids, right? Right?? For some hare-brained reason, I thought it would be a good idea to follow last year’s newly instituted tradition and make millions of cookies and pirogi for Christmas. The logic and reason part of my brain didn’t seem [...]

Run, Run . . . Me?

| December 8, 2011

At 9 o’clock tonight, I figured out the number one reason that it was a good thing we bought the house we did. It has nothing to do with resale value or rent-ability, schools or neighbors. Nope. When it comes down to this house, nestled snug in a tidy little neighborhood, and the countless others [...]