Thank you for the kind birthday wishes, everyone. Let me say that Ane enjoyed every second of her birthday, and made sure that every person around her knew that it was HER SPECIAL DAY. As for me, I’ve hit a fatigue wall. I’m supposed to make a cheesecake, and I’m just too bleeding tired to […]

Last Saturday, the Captain, Q-Bee and Belle arrived to spend a week here with my parents, Auntie and the rest of us for Christmas. So far, it’s been a good one, but a full post about Christmas Day will have to wait because… Little Cousin and Baby Cousin are arriving TODAY. With their mommy, of […]

Ane took a ten-minute nap in the car yesterday. That was IT. We had been at the mall, trying to get some odds and ends Christmas shopping done – a gift card here, a small thing there, one last stocking stuffer – and by the end of it, Ane was dragging and she was in […]

Here it is, as promised, our Christmas tree (sans tree skirt – I haven’t opened that box yet). This is the first year in, um, EVER, that we have had to purchase a tree. As some of you know, the Webmaster’s family owned a Christmas tree farm and business that was started by his grandfather. […]