Author: Cindy

All sorts of things have been under our Christmas tree this month … wrapped gifts, trains, cats, Baby Jesus, Scooby Doo … but this was my favorite: Okay, this was pretty cute too: Happy Christmas, friends!

As all good kids do, Ricky has learned the alternate version of Jingle Bells.  We aren’t sure where he learned his version, it certainly wasn’t from his parents.   Ricky’s goes something like this … “Jingle Bells Batman smells Robin laid an egg The Batmobile lost a wheel In 1981 … “

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 […]