I have a confession to make.  I really enjoy the holiday movies on the Hallmark Channel and Lifetime.  I really, really do. Not the Lifetime movies about abuse or abandonment or tragedy. The "holiday" romance movies.  The Christmas "feel-good" movies where boy and girl get together at the end or a new family is created … Continue reading Confession

1. Favorite cookie/candy/baked good without which, it's just not Christmas. My mother's Mamie Eisenhower Christmas cookies. Iced, decorated and waiting for me each year.  Can't have Christmas without them.2. Do you do a fancy dinner on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, both, or neither? (Optional: with whom will you gather around the table this year?) My … Continue reading Friday Five: Holiday Food

For this mid-December Friday Five, let's explore some Yuletide favorites.1) It's a Wonderful Life--Is it? Do you remember seeing it for the first time? Okay, I know this admission will make me seem very unAmerican or inhumane or something but I have not actually seen "It's a Wonderful Life".  I'm sure "It's a Wonderful Movie" … Continue reading Friday Five: Yuletide Thoughts

Saturday I officiated at my third wedding.  The wedding of two good friends.  The wedding of one faithful blog reader.  So, Preston, here it is for you:  Congratulations, dear friend!  Thank you for allowing me to share in you and Amy's special day.  It was a honor and a pleasure to be there for the … Continue reading Weddings and Such

Winter came last night with a grand entrance.  We woke up to 12 - 14 inches of snow. Just two days ago we were enjoying rare 70 degree temps.  Now, we are bundled up like Randy from A Christmas Story.  I spent 3 hours shoveling my sidewalk and driveway.  Still a good chunk of ice … Continue reading Winter is Here!

It was a relaxing Thanksgiving holiday for me this year.  Good times with family and very little pressing agenda.  For those two things, I am thankful. One of the traditions that I carry on from my childhood days is putting up Christmas the day after Thanksgiving.  Although it was a little odd to be putting … Continue reading Let the Anticipation Begin

So I took this leadership test online to see what leader I am most like and it comes out to be Mother Theresa.  Talk about awkward.  Who wants to say that they are like Mother Theresa?  I mean, we all wish we were like Mother Theresa but who is arrogant enough to say "I'm like … Continue reading Awkward