Year: 2010

We got the chance to spend the week of Thanksgiving in California with Kevin’s folks and his sisters.  It was a great trip. But, of course, since I’m writing about it nearly 4 weeks after the fact, I don’t remember a lot of details. We got there on a Tuesday in time for one of […]

Yesterday was my family’s Christmas Party, complete with White Elephant gifts.  Some years there is a nice mix of low end with high end gifts.  This year … not so much the high end. Anyway, Ricky had been planning to play.  Lots of presents involved … should be fun, right? It came time to start […]

I was up early this morning.  I had turned on the Christmas tree and was enjoying the quiet, when a drowsy Billy came out of his room.  He came down the stairs and looked at the tree.  Then he looked out the window at the 2 inches of fresh snow and more falling.  He asked […]

The weekend before Thanksgiving we had house guests.  My friend Shelly brought her 4 kids from Arizona for a visit.  The boys were thrilled!  And, naturally, I didn’t take a single picture all weekend. Shelly has 3 girls and a boy.  The older girls are 9 and 8.  Ricky loved watching them play their Nintendo […]

As I sat in my front room working on a future blog post (Thanksgiving will be posted, someday), I heard the sound of Rusty drinking in the kitchen.   At first, I didn’t think anything of it … kids drink.  Then I realized that I hadn’t given him a sippy cup any time recently so I […]