My mom’s dog Sam is staying with us for a few days while Mom, Morgan, and Hale are in Florida for a mini vacation. Sam is older than the pugs by at least 10 years (he was a rescue so no one knows exactly how old he is but he’s been in the family for…

We really need to get Kea a matching stocking. They are hard to find in dark blue though. We’re not doing the whole tree thing this year. We won’t be home for any of the festivities, and Ike would eat or pee on any presents left under the tree without his name on them. But…

This scarf is only halfway finished. The big ball of yarn on the right must magically knit itself into the rest of the scarf by Christmas day. The really bad part about all this is that the original intent was to give this scarf as a gift last Christmas.

There are some things about Christmas I don’t understand. I am of a very curious nature and I have questions. I’m not judging, I just want to understand. First of all, why do we stop celebrating at midnight on the 25th? We spend all this time preparing then let it die off after just a…

I’ve been sick the last week with a nasty cold, chest, coughing, thingy. I lost my voice, and apparently my mind. At work yesterday I was wearing pants with a side zip and zippy pockets. I unzipped my pocket and put my lip gloss in my pocket before our meeting. As I was walking into…

This whole iPod thing may be getting out of control. Jon brought in his cds from the car tonight and asked if I could upload them to his iPod. Sure. So the stack of cds on the table vs the piles he was sorting through was really small. I told him the iPod could hold…

Tonight Jon and I went to his parents’ house for dinner and presents. His mom always makes a themed birthday cake. This year’s cake was an apple. The Apple logo to be precise. Made sense since we’d all become Mac converts in the last year. Luckily seeing the cake didn’t give away his surprise. His…

Tomorrow is my husband Jon’s 34th birthday. Since we’ve been on our adoption budget we only get 1 gift a year from each other. I’m so excited to give him his present. I can’t tell you what it is yet cause he may be sneaky and come in here and read about it. I wish…

Tomorrow is Kea’s 2nd birthday. She’s still so little it’s hard to believe she’s 2. Here she was when we first introduced her to Ike. Click to enlarge pictures. She came home on January 29th, 2004. So just a few days living at her new house and she had her first holiday card photo shoot…

For years I’ve wanted a Moravian star to hang on the front porch during Christmas time. Jon’s always told me I couldn’t hang a Moravian star because “You’re Irish and you don’t want to offend the Moravians.” He was better at geography in school so I just went with it. Then I started noticing that…