Holidays

5 degrees is very cold

January 2, 2012

A few weeks ago, my dad and his wife offered to take our family to see ICE! at the Gaylord National Hotel. I honestly had no idea what it was but I said, “Sure! An ice show sounds great!” I tweeted about it and thankfully found several people who had been the previous year or [...]

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Christmas Lights: Raleigh Style

December 24, 2011

A few years ago, my friend @IlinaP told me of her family’s tradition to pile into the car dressed in jammies with mugs of hot chocolate in search of the best Christmas lights in Raleigh. I can’t say I have found the definitive best but we definitely enjoyed taking a page from Ilina’s book last [...]

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A Story of Christmas Magic

December 23, 2011

My mother tells me that when I was a child, I believed in Santa Claus. I believed with all of my heart. Even when the kids on the bus told me that their parents admitted it was them, I refused to believe it. My mother also tells me that when I found out the truth [...]

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Pets Love Christmas Too

December 21, 2011

I don’t think I’ve ever spent a Christmas without pets. If I happened to have a lull in my life where I didn’t have pets (which would have been a dark and lonely time), I always had family to call on at the holidays and their pets to snuggle. When I finally got my very-own-all-by-myself-and-no-roommates [...]

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Stream of Consciousness Sunday: Christmas is like a Saturday

December 18, 2011

I’ll admit that I’m starting to feel the typical end-of-the-year reflections. What has changed, what has gotten better, what has gotten worse. All of the things I might put on a Christmas letter if I were inclined to write one. I’m also thinking about ways to recognize my blogging friends (please enter your best posts [...]

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Surviving the Holidays with the Gift of Wine

December 15, 2011

It’s almost time for Blogmas. I’m looking for a few good posts to showcase for my Blogmas Awards. Enter your posts by 12/23! So you might have heard me talk a time or two (or six) about the California Wine Club. It’s because I believe in their offering. Which just so happens to be, you [...]

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Stream of Consciousness Sunday: One Missing Elf

December 4, 2011

My house is in total chaos these days. When we took it off the market, I breathed a huge sigh of relief in the form of complete and utter lack of housekeeping. Now that I have so much time what with the holidays and all, it’s time to get it back in order and back [...]

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The Other Side of Haiti and the Beauty That Lies Within

November 2, 2011

Have you ever visited Haiti? I did. I traveled there back in 2003. I was aboard the new mega cruise ship, Navigator of the Seas, that was part of Royal Caribbean’s fleet. Our final port of call was Labadee, Haiti. I had no idea why anyone would want to go to Haiti until we docked [...]

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Halloween Through the Ages

October 31, 2011

If you were looking for a history lesson in the origins of Halloween, you’ll need to visit a much more reputable source like Wikipedia. I’m here to talk about Halloween through my son’s ages. He’s 4 this year (four and three-quarters to be exact) which means this is the 5th Halloween we’re celebrating together. And [...]

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Stream of Consciousness Sunday: The Magic of Santa

October 30, 2011

I had such a blah day. I’m trying to declutter the house again. I dressed in bummy clothes. I didn’t shower. And it was cold outside and in (I have this thing about turning on the heat before November). I’ve just been in a funk. But don’t worry. That’s not what I wrote about. I [...]

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