As the warm aroma of this concoction fill the house everyone will notice and be very pleased with the result. It will do a lot to add the Christmas Spirit.

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We met someone today at a store who suggested we drive about 10 miles to go see this display of Christmas lights. It was interesting, although perhaps a bit overdone. I’m not sure it was worth the drive. But at least the kids liked it. We have received reports of other extreme displays of Christmas [...]

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As you might imagine, living in a house with two 5 year old kids in the month of December one is constantly reminded of the fact that Christmas is coming very soon. That’s just one of the many great things about having young kids. Our tree is up. This year the kids put on most [...]

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Now that BusyBoy and GigglyGirl are starting to read they really enjoy Word Search Puzzles. So I’ve found some online tools that you can use to make a word search puzzle with your own list of words. Then, using words that they’re learning or are familiar with I can create my own custom word search [...]

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Our house is about 23 years old, as are most of the other houses in our neighborhood. (We live in a big neighborhood with 1,500 homes.) About 6 years ago we started to notice that various home improvement and home repair contractors were parked in the driveways of homes all through the neighborhood on a [...]

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