Melissa | January 8, 2010
So the problem with taking over 500 pictures during Christmas break is finding time to process, edit, tag, comment, and post them. This is what we were up to last week.
(If you click on the event, it will take you to the rest of the pictures from that event. If you’re really a glutton for [...]
Melissa | January 5, 2010
Ok, so I’m double-dipping in this Blog Hop since it’s running again.
Here’s the photographic remembrance of Ty’s first Grinch Reading.
Melissa | December 29, 2009
Slowly making my way through pictures. The complete set is at our Photos page.
Melissa | December 29, 2009
So I’ve processed about 180 pictures so far and still have over 50 to go. Here are some favorites from Christmas Eve. For a more complete set, check out our Photos page.
Melissa | December 28, 2009
Not-Me-Monday is a blog carnival started by MckMama. Hop over to her blog to see what others have NOT done this week.
I was NOT hell bent on the kids wearing their matching snowman pajamas for Christmas Eve evening and Christmas morning pictures since Ty didn’t come home in time to wear them last year. [...]
Melissa | December 8, 2009
Operatives
Mission: Search and destroy saw down
Gear
Phase One: The sawing
Phase Two: The dragging
Phase Three: The securing
Phase Four: The standing
Phase Five: The de-icing
Phase Six: The lighting
Phase Seven: The decorating
Project Completion!
Melissa | December 5, 2009
UPDATE: Apprently Our Daily Bread is thinking about this topic, too. Read Presents or Presence?.
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Original post follows…
My kids: Mom, why don’t we decorate like that? (Pointing to a beautifully lighted house complete with candles in the windows, wreaths on the doors, and an inflatable Santa rocking on horse…yes, it was actually rocking back and forth.)
Mom: Kids, [...]
Melissa | December 1, 2009
Today marks the first day of our annual Christmas chain.
Every year since PJ was 3, we’ve created an old-fashioned, red and green, Christmas-countdown-chain. Actually, it’s an old-fashioned, red and green, Christmas-countdown-prayer-chain. On every link we list friends and family in our life. Every night, the kids take down a link and we pray for the named [...]
Melissa | November 27, 2009
So I guess, the Christmas shopping season is “officially” underway. I don’t personally have an “official” start and have been known to pick up Christmas presents as early as April. But don’t let that fool you, I usually am still shopping the week before Christmas.
I think my biggest gift giving quirk is that I love [...]
