This weekend, we ate smiley faced pancakes with fresh blueberries, raspberries and chocolate chips. We played pickup baseball, Hedbanz and a loose-ruled version of Family Feud. We took long, slow walks down old country roads. We watched a mother robin feed her baby birds. We sat around a crackling camp fire and listened to frogs [...]
Our favorite leprechaun greeted me with a pot of gold yesterday when I dropped by her house for a wee bit o' blarney. "Have some chocolate," she said. "I buy it from the Boy Scouts." Then she held up a basket full of giant candy bars, wrapped in gold. Connie the Cookie Lady celebrates every [...]
We are T-minus 24 hours from the big day and, we’re not going to lie, we’re struggling here at Christmas central. Complete anarchy erupted in a baker’s box, and now we have a half dozen gingerbread men in a less than dignified state of undress, with clumps of parchment paper stuck to their limbs and [...]
I’m pretty sure I met the real Santa Claus last night and he did not disappoint. As with most magical encounters, it happened randomly. I rounded a corner on an ordinary cul de sac and slammed so hard into the spirit of Christmas that my breath stopped for a second or two and my eyes [...]
I frightened my neighbors as I hung up our Christmas lights...I always do. My family knows better. They flee the house at the first sulphur whiff of the bulbs. But, lured by an unseasonably warm afternoon and a sweet innocence I’ve yet to destroy, my neighbors strolled happily past our house Sunday afternoon. They waved [...]
