Disney holiday memories

Happy sigh… I was there for all of this.  I saw it and I wish I was still there.

Did you see the paper cutout during the Osbourne lights that was 2nd row in and third from the right?  That was me.  LOL!

Childhood books

My parents, not to mention my brother and sisters, read to me as a kid.  It was the start of my love for books.  One of my favorite pictures of my dad is me sitting in his lap as he’s reading to me.  When my siblings had kids of their own, back out came the [...]

Is it really a HAPPY new year?

I have to say a few things first.  My friend Steve Allen needs to stop reading right now and if my friends John Ames is reading, he might want to do the same.  And I’m putting up a warning in general: it’s not a happy post, at least not the second half.
That being said, I [...]

Christmas village: Dickens, Disney, and beyond

When I first moved out on my own, I picked up some inexpensive holiday village houses.  I actually put a set on lay away (remember lay away?), and then tried to add a house or some item to it.    It was pretty traditional.
When John and I got married,  someone gave me a couple Disney pieces, [...]

I’m baaack!!

We had a fantastic vacation, but unfortunately, we got sick when we were home with severe colds.  It even interfered with our holiday plans.  We couldn’t see John’s family on Christmas Eve which we hated having to give up!  But we felt so bad, we could, at most, get up for about an hour or [...]

Finish that overpacking! And then tuck me in!

It’s been so busy this past week, getting things packed, having the show, and trying to do SOMETHNG done for Christmas.  I made myself nuts and had a good, old fashioned freak out — modernly referred to as an anxiety attack — when things were falling apart.  But after I got a hold of feeling [...]

Update on vacation blog

First, thank you to everyone who voted on the vacation blog designs!  I appreciate the feedback.  I decided to go ahead and do a blog for this trip, because I had gotten excited about it.  If you are someone who prefers Twitter, both blogs – this and the vacation one – feed to my twitter [...]