Today the family more or less was lazy around the house, every once in a while working on the holiday decorations. I whipped together three recipes of sugar cookie dough for this coming week, and we finished decorating both Christmas trees. This year, for the first time, we put up two Christmas trees. We started … Read more
Happy Black Friday friends! I occasionally have done the first-thing-in-the-morning thing on Black Friday. Of course, that was back when Black Friday had a morning to it. Now it’s more of a Black Thursday Night, since that’s when you have to get going to make it to the stores for the “doorbusters”. I’m too old, … Read more
Pecan pie anyone? This one is extra special! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Today the family headed over to the Yurack Family’s house. Jim and Amy are friends from my dorm at Penn State way back when. Amy lived across the hall my freshman year! 20 years ago! The Yuracks have three kids, and let me tell … Read more
Let me start with a Dave Update: Dave’s days are doing pretty well. He’s in a bit of a conundrum because as his leg muscles tighten up overnight, he awakens every morning with VERY uncomfortable leg and glute pains. Within a few minutes of awakening, he’s much improved. But he says that the morning pains … Read more
I recently fell in love with sweet potatoes. I wrote about it in 2009. Incidentally, Dave had a similar epiphany in 1997 with onions. He went from hating them to loving them. I tolerate them, but certainly don’t love them. He doesn’t love sweet potatoes, so I guess we’re even. Anyway, since there’s no point … Read more
It’s been hard this year. The media has been inundating us with holiday-related retail commercials and the radio stations are already playing Christmas music. I guess it started the same week as Halloween, which seemed pretty crazy to me. Has it always been this early? Don’t get me wrong…my family and I LOVE Christmas, we … Read more
Why I FAILED to post yesterday, and thus FAILED at the NaBloPoMo contest for this year. 1.) I was playing Glitch quite a bit on Sunday. I was trying to earn enough money for a super-big new house and that took about 3 hours of my day. 2.) I was busy with Cub Scouts. Timmy’s … Read more
Jacob received several gift cards for his birthday. Unfortunately, things were so hectic after his birthday, between my two reserve tours and then Dave’s surgery, we sorta forgot about them. With Grammy and Grampy Vollmer visiting, we made a trip to Pensacola today so Jacob could visit Toys R Us and spend his gift card. … Read more
I just got home from the Hurlburt Spouses’ Club Charity Auction. This year was the 25th year of the auction. The auction is the year’s biggest fundraiser for the organization’s scholarship fund. Being that this was my first HSC auction experience, I didn’t really know what to expect. All the ladies said “It’s a really … Read more
Today Dave’s parents came into town. I had to drive out to Panama City Beach to their relatively new airport to pick them up. It was a nice drive, about 90 minutes. Once you get east of the congestion in Destin, the highway really opens up and it’s a very low stress drive the rest … Read more