A happy birthday, 1992
/Throw Back Thursday
This Saturday, Jim will celebrate his birthday with the same cake — his favorite — and the same girls, all grown up (minus Megan, on the right).
Today's question:
What is your favorite cake flavor?
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Holiday highlights... in passages and pics
/It was quite indescribable. It was like what happens when you shake a kaleidoscope. The parts of it are the same parts, but they are arranged differently; they are arranged in a new pattern...
~Agatha Christie "The Water Bus"
They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters...
The more things change: 10 ways my Christmas has long remained the same
/Now that the nest has emptied, home, family, Christmas and more are far different than they were in the past. The more things change, the more it matters that some things remain the same, things such as the following.
10 ways my Christmas has long remained the same
The Christmas tree — Regardless of all the ornaments my daughters accumulated through the years then took with them when they moved into their own places, our tree always — somehow — continues to look the same every single year. (And our cats...
Grandma's brave boys visit the big man
/Bubby and Mac aren't quite ready for sitting on Santa's lap — he is a stranger, you know — but they did manage to get up close and personal with the big man... eventually.
Unexpected guests and GRAND Social link party No. 82
/My family's annual cookie swap — which we started long before cookie exchanges were in fashion — took place yesterday at my sister's house. She lives relatively far up in the mountains, and life up there is a wee bit different than it is here in the city.
For one thing, during the holiday festivities, the neighbors came right up to the back door and begged to join our invitation-only party.
Needless to say...
