Merry and bright: The 2024 Holiday Fun List
Christmas is exactly 5 weeks away! Thanksgiving is extremely late this year (the latest the fourth Thursday of November can be), which means that there …Read More
Tag Archives: Christmas
Quiet before the storm (+ another sonnet)
On some level this was a very low-key weekend. We had a few things -- a swim meet, a robotics tournament, music lessons. I ran …Read More
Friday content round up, plus lights and a sonnet
I spent some time this week working on the chapter I'm writing about my year-long projects. I still have not figured out exactly what my …Read More
The Christmas crunch
I have reached the point in December where the volume of stuff to be managed starts feeling like a bit much. This was also a …Read More
TBT Scorecard: Festive week
The march toward Christmas continues around here. Last week was a very full week, with stuff every night more or less. However, it seems slightly …Read More
Holiday children’s books worth a re-read
We've amassed quite a collection of Christmas books over the years. I think it was eight years ago or so that I jumped on the …Read More
Festive (and how we did on the 2021 holiday fun list)
This was a fairly festive weekend. On Saturday, most of us (my daughter was at a friend's house) went to Adventure Aquarium in Camden, New …Read More
Friday planning gets it done (even when things don’t go as planned)
It is lunch time on Friday. From this vantage point, a few hours from quitting time, I am pretty sure I am going to end …Read More
Taking in the lights (holiday update)
I posted my holiday fun list a few weeks ago, and I'm happy to report that we are methodically moving through it. Since December weekends …Read More
Shopping and serendipity
I've been trying to get ahead on holiday shopping. I'm likely spending the latter half of December orchestrating a move, so I figure it's better …Read More