Tis The Season

It is possible that I am feeling a little bit…Christmassy. I spruced up my window boxes which made me very happy. I have a copy of Gene Autry’s Christmas Carols on hold at the library. I outsourced my Christmas card pictures to Leslie, and they were simply too gorgeous for words when they came back. [...]

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Thank you so much for all your thoughtful, wonderful, kind comments telling me that I’m not a giant Grinch after all. I am not sure why it takes me so long to figure these things out sometimes.  I think, for some reason, I expected Christmas traditions to happen  organically.  For a perfect magical Christmas to [...]

Grinchey

I had this big post planned in my head about how much I hate Christmas.  About how torn I feel between all the different versions of how Christmas is supposed to be.  Of how the thought of a Christmas where the parents get each other nothing while showering their children with so many gifts that [...]

The Final Menu

I’ve got one more trip to Trader Joe’s to make, and I have to track down some ham hocks, but I think this is the final version of our Thanksgiving menu: breakfast: cinnamon rolls, fruit salad, coffee, mimosas Snacks: crackers, cranberry covered goat cheese, relish tray with pickles, black olives, and gardiniera Dinner: brined turkey [...]

Gobble, Gobble

You don’t hang out around the house in leg warmers, a turkey hair clip, and a fur coat?  That’s really too bad for you. P.S. Doesn’t she look long suffering in this picture?  You can practically see her thinking “Seriously? A TURKEY hair clip? Am I to have NO dignity? P. P.S. Thank you to [...]

The 2010 125 Things Under $25 Gift List

My super huge super cheap Christmas gift list is up over at Style Lush today!  Go check it out and find that perfect thing for that person who has everything and wants nothing.  Or just buy something for yourself. Ah, the Christmas spirit. I’m still…looking for it this year. As I was deep in the [...]

Fix You

I would never choose to run.  If I could be skinny and never exercise, I’d pick that, which is just ridiculous, because NOTHING focuses me and calms me down and takes the edge off my stress like a run in the morning.  I just feel like I leave a little something out there, and I [...]

The Heart Grows Fonder

Besides the fact that I could happily spend the rest of my life going from one fancy hotel to the next, the thing I took away from my little jaunt to Chicago was that I need a break more often.  Erik still has three furlough days every month, although now he gets to take them [...]

Just Friends

I think to explain The Blathering and what it means to me, unfortunately,  I have to start with something sad. I can’t remember how I first started reading Emily, but she was one of my first blog loves.  I scoured her archives at work and I showed Erik the pictures of Asher when he was [...]

Thirteen Things…

I have been trying to think of 13 interesting things you should know about me before we all hang out, but I made this list last  year and I am now forced to confront the bitter reality that there aren’t, in fact, 26 interesting things about me. The truth is that the only reason I [...]