Christmas 2020
It’s 2021 and Christmas seems far away already. But we had a very cozy and quiet December culminating in a . . . cozy and quiet holiday. Very different from […]
It’s 2021 and Christmas seems far away already. But we had a very cozy and quiet December culminating in a . . . cozy and quiet holiday. Very different from […]
Happy holidays from the McGuires’, where the house is still kind of trashed and many surfaces still bear a dusting of fire extinguisher residue. But more on that later! We […]
Another Christmas has come and gone. It‘s been a busy few weeks, full of whiteboard scribblings, scrap paper lists and back-of-the-napkin spending calculations, so let’s catch up. The whiteboard Advent calendar […]
It’s Friday the 13th but I’m feeling pretty lucky and in a good mood. Maybe because the Eagles won last night. Maybe because it feels like fall, finally. The house […]
The day after Christmas, my phone screen slowly faded away to black. Broken. I decided I wasn’t in a rush to get a new one. It was break; nothing urgent […]
This week is odd. The boys are at a camp at their school from 8 to 3 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. So we get up early, I make lunches, etc. […]
December 28th, time to sum up Christmas. In literal terms, the sums I spent were comparable to last year. Not as small as they could have been, but not as […]
Today is the nadir of the year. After today, the sun starts coming back, ever so slowly. Although the sun has been sticking to its script, the weather has not. […]
It’s December 27, and since 7:30 a.m. on Christmas morning I have not been doing much beyond building with Legos, acting out scenes from “Frozen,” working on jigsaw puzzles, and […]
I knew it was coming: although I tried not to, I’ve overdone it a bit on Christmas and now I feel a little Scrooge-ish. Today I’m going to try to […]