Watching Christmas cartoons… check Stockings hung by the chimney with care… check All presents bought… uh, no Wrapped… no Christmas photos taken… that would be, no Christmas cards… Hahahahahaha. Um, no. Menu planned, cookies baked, outfits planned…...

The day you were born is still etched in my mind like a series of snapshots. You know those little flip books that you flip through with your thumb, and the quicker you flip the less they look like individual pictures and the more they look like a...

Dear Santa, It is all on you this year. I eagerly anticipate your arrival with gifts. I am plum out of ideas, money, and the will to enter a mall. Love, Chris I did spot this little gem while out the other day. I am not yet sure which teacher will...

Not even the gingerbread houses are immune.

Yesterday afternoon was like any other day after school. Little kids came home, threw their stuff everywhere, ate snacks, talked about their day at school in increasingly loud volumes. Then my middle schoolers walked in the front door. Mom, you need...