The Fourth of July has always been a very special holiday to me, jam-packed with family and tradition. Before my grandparents passed, July marked reunion time for my dad’s side of the family in Dubuque, Iowa. Nothing gets you in the mood for fireworks like making a ten hour trek through unending corn fields crammed in the back of … Continue reading
As expected, late last year I received an invitation in the mail for the “45th Annual Awards Banquet” for Locations LLC. What I hadn’t expected was the theme – Chinese Elegance. As you can probably guess, this theme was, quite literally, foreign to me. What in the world is Chinese Elegance attire? Last year’s theme … Continue reading
First of all – Happy Birthday Jesus! We kicked off his birthday celebration with a Christmas Eve children’s Mass at our home parish. Chaos as usual but a very sweet homily for the kids. Church was followed by a late dinner of bbq chicken, mac&cheese, broccoli, and white russians. Also because it’s the season to … Continue reading
…to pull Christmas off this year. Heritage Village to be precise. We haven’t even finished our Thanksgiving leftovers, but Santa doesn’t seem to care. Christmas will be here in a flash, and the above is as much as we have done to get ready. Except for this: Decorating tonight was a joint effort. Originally, I … Continue reading
Thanksgiving 2013 was a huge success! Because you can’t sample the all the delicious food we ate yesterday, I decided share a taste of our Thanksgiving in 10 photos. 1. The boys had a very stressful morning keeping themselves out of the kitchen. After an exhausting trip to the park, I caught Kirk and Beck … Continue reading
Tonight’s post will be brief since I want to get some good rest before Thanksgiving festivities begin! Last year I posted lots of photos, but I neglected to provide links to all of the recipes. Bad idea. What a pain it has been to track them down! This year I am wiser. For your reference … Continue reading
Well, I didn’t exactly catch up on sleep last night. I slept snug as a bug in my cozy covers for about 3 hours until Daniel got out of bed at 2:00am to check on a noise coming from the front room. When I saw him peer around the frame of our bedroom door, as … Continue reading
Karma is a you know what. Yesterday I commented on some Facebooker’s obsession with making others feel totally frantic and unprepared for Thanksgiving. I even made some snarky sarcastic mention that commissary was going to be out of butter. As if that would ever happen [insert eye roll]. The rampant threats of bare shelves were not getting under my skin, but rather I wanted to spend the better part … Continue reading
It’s that time again. I regret it has been nearly eight months – eight! – since I have made any noise on my blog. Lame. Does it count that I’ve been thinking about re-establishing the daily updates since August? Not likely. I was re-reading my posts from thanksgiving last year because I desperately need to make a grocery list for … Continue reading
Happy Easter!! Daniel got home from a month long training assignment in Germany last night! You didn’t know he was gone? Well, then I did a good job keeping it quiet. I don’t like to advertise when he’s away. Too many Law & Order episodes I guess. But now he is home and back on … Continue reading
