I’ll write something of more substance later, but I hope that everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving today is having a good one, and spending time with family and friends that they are truly thankful for.
I’m thankful for babysitting! Because I have to be at work soon and most of my relatives are out of the area, [...]

Last night we went to the a Haunted Swamp at the Enzian in Maitland. It’s actually the first time since I was a small child I’ve been to a really big Halloween bash and it was a lot of fun, despite my getting sick towards the end of the evening.
They had a lot of really [...]

When I was a child I would have loved to get some of the special offers that I’ve been bombarded with recently, but now they seem a bit useless. The husband and I keep getting special offers for Orlando vacations in the mail and from telemarketers. I guess the people don’t realize that we live [...]

I realized while I was at work that I’ve missed the anniversary of my first full year as an American citizen. I got my citizenship on April 24th last year. Last year was my first 4th of July as an American, but we really didn’t do very much as my husband was working.
This year we [...]

I’m hosting people today, yesterday’s prep work didn’t go entirely as planned. We have a small fridge. Mum’s meringues didn’t want to cooperate; but we’re still going to have fun. Roast Beef, Yorkshire Pudding, Veggies, Helen’s Layer pudding, family and friends.
The munchkin looks very dapper today in a button down shirt, and he found my [...]

I’ve talked a little bit before about family traditions for Yule and Christmas. With my ILs we tend to watch the Alex Finney version of Scrooge before opening the presents the night before the main celebration, this year this would be Yule last year it was Christmas.
That was the first tradition I was introduced to, [...]

It’s been a little strange for me this past day, but a good strange. To be involved in holiday celebrations and for their to be no tension was really wonderful. I remember Christmases in my past, and while they were usually decent celebrations there was often an underlying tension which underscored the whole affair; whether [...]

It seems like it’s a family tradition to get sick around the holidays, as it stands right now my husband has bronchitis and I have sinusitis and a mild ear infection. The munchkin threw up this morning, it turns out he has the beginnings of it, the post nasal drip and all the rest. So, [...]

In previous years we’ve just had the table top tree which is known as “The Chibi Tree”:

When we moved into our first apartment, we thought we weren’t going to get in until at least the February, but apparently the fact that I was pregnant and my husband was a police officer bumped us up on [...]

I think our things which have been left at the old apartment are multiplying while we’re not there. I swear it looked as though there wasn’t that much stuff. My husband even told me there wasn’t that much stuff…yet despite being there a few hours yesterday we only got the munchkin’s room and the main [...]