Monthly Archives: December 2012

A Country Girl and a City Boy

The miss each other so. And we got to spend an entire day with her. They were all excited about the cookies and decorating, and making chocolate dipped spoons, and writing letters, but when it started to interfere with their play time, true feelings began to emerge about how they really felt about our projects. By the...

Mexican Hot Chocolate

I didn’t like Chocolate growing up. Until my son was born, and then like many other things, that changed. But I did always love hot chocolate. But not from the package. This kind. The recipe was given my dad from one of his teacher’s when I was growing up (he was a principal for many...

The Card, Oh the Card….

I’m a letter writer. I always have been. I seem to be able to communicate so much better through writing than I do through talking.  I started moving away from people I loved at a very early age. So I started sending Christmas cards, with photos, at a very very early age. 8 or 9. Not...

The Yearly Tree Hunt

Holy crap…, I mean cramoli,  it’s already here!!! I know that is the standard line of Christmas letters all around. “This year has just flown by.”, “Where did the time go?”, etc, etc.  And since I don’t send Christmas letters anymore (hey you can see what I’m doing all the time, right here!, but I still...