Surviving the Holidays

If being with your family makes you want to crawl into a punch bowl full of spiked egg nog and stay there until New Year’s – let’s talk about what to do, how to cope, and how to make it through the holidays without committing murder. I personally love to be with my family (at…

Christmas Pageant or Holiday Concert?

Christmas pageants and Christmas concerts have almost gone the way of the dinosaurs in this era of extreme political correctness. We have Winter Celebrations or “Holiday Concerts.” I, for one, have really fond memories of Christmas Pageants. Actual Christmas Pageants (even though our family wasn’t religious and didn’t go to Church). I have a picture…

(Sometimes) Holiday Traditions

Each year I like to try out something new around the holidays and see if it is something we would like to do again the next year and develop it into a new holiday tradition. The Great Dickens Christmas Fair – We went to the Dickens Fair a few years ago and brought all the…

Waiting to Exhale

I burst into tears as I walked around the corner after seeing Greg drive off with our 17-year-old who had just been released from the hospital after a successful surgery for an ACL reconstruction. All of the stress of waiting and not knowing had ganged up on me and overwhelmed me. I don’t like doctors,…