It was time again (and thankfully, Tad was well enough) for our annual Christmas dinner and gift exchange with Friend and Doc and the boys (and Best Babysitter, too).  This was the ninth year that we’ve done this – and gotten a picture of the kids (see here and here for previous years). I used […]

I was quite occupied this weekend, and some of that involved baking.  And I’m still not done! There is more to come!  The kids love this time of year… of obvious reasons.

Since we decorated the tree this last weekend, I thought we’d flashback to another tree decoration… in 2008.  The kids had each gotten a Christmas ornament in Disneyland.  Ane had picked the Princess ball… … which was breakable and we had to pack very carefully for the trip home.  Tad had picked the Mickey Mouse […]

The tree is up, and the kids could not wait for this.  Said tree was actually purchased last weekend, but lived on the back porch all last week.  The Webmaster brought it into the garage on Friday night to dry, but it wasn’t done drying by the time Saturday afternoon rolled around.  So we struck […]