We already celebrated with Nana and Papa over the weekend… … and we caught an early service at church… … so tonight was spent watching TV – mostly “A Muppet Family Christmas” – and eating pizza with Grandma and Gichan at our house.  Once they left, it was time to hit the showers, and put […]

Believe it or not, it really has been 16 years that we have been posing our kid (and later, kids) with Friend and Doc’s boys in front of a Christmas tree to celebrate together.  We’re now at the point where the kids just know this picture is going to happen, so there’s no arguing about […]

Can you believe that it’s the Friday before Christmas???  I only have today to finish things up before the kids get home from school.  Mom is busy doing ALL THE WRAPPING. Christmas was a whole lot easier when we only had one child! Ane was a couple days shy of her first birthday, and so […]

There’s something wrong with me.  I’m still baking cookies! I found a recipe for a Peppermint Mocha Chocolate Chip cookie… but that meant I was hunting ingredients down.  I had to order more peppermint crunch online, and after checking three different stores, I finally caved and ordered espresso powder online as well.  The cookie was […]