the life and times of a domestic diva extraordinaire
Posted in Twelve Days of Christmas on Dec 25th, 2007
Christmas Day was always a family day at our house. Since we had already opened our gifts on Christmas Eve, we spent the day enjoying them. It was the one day a year where it was easy to get my Dad to sit down and play a game with us during the day. We often […]
Posted in Twelve Days of Christmas on Dec 24th, 2007
I love the holiday season. So many bloggers have been doing wonderful series on Advent and such, but due to an unfortunate turn of events this fall, I was kind of late getting into the holiday season. It is my favorite time of year, though, and I’ve decided to celebrate it by doing a series […]
Posted in Life at Our House on Dec 21st, 2007
It’s serious now. Christmas is only a few days away. Here is what I have left to do: Make menu for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; buy groceries. Make flannel pants for Steve and Ben (they are cut out – I just need to sew them) Make Baby Bobbi Bear for Joey (get needles first) […]
Posted in Family, Photography on Dec 20th, 2007
Today I got our Christmas package from my sister. She had told me that my gift was wrapped but none of the rest of the gifts were. [Hey, that’s something like I would do!] Sure enough, mine was wrapped. It was exactly the right size and weight to be either the 35/2 camera lens I […]
Posted in Ben on Dec 19th, 2007
Ben’s latest intellectual acquisition is that he, Daddy and Joey are boys and Mommy is a girl. Apparently, this is such an exciting revelation to him that he finds it necessarily to repeat this information aloud many times every day. Including when we’re out shopping. Standing in line at a store. With a whole bunch […]
I’m knitting a Baby Bobbi Bear for Joey for Christmas. I cast on this morning [I decided it was about time, you know] and after two or three rows using the Magic Loop [yes, technical knitting term], I realized that (a) for the first time ever, when knitting in the round, I had managed to […]