Category Archives: Holidays

Events, Family, Favorites, Holidays

My Christmas Celebrations This Season

  • 12/14- Leadership Christmas Potluck at work
  • 12/16- Annual Family Christmas Party
  • 12/17- Caring Tree gift party at work
  • 12/17- Gift Exchange Reunion
  • 12/23- Christmas with my kids
  • 12/24- Christmas Eve morning breakfast
  • 12/24- Late night Wrapping Party
  • 12/25- Christmas with the family
  • 1/5- KAC Christmas party
  • 1/19- Directors Holiday party

Favorites, Holidays

My Favorite Ornaments on my Christmas Tree (which yes, is already up)

  • Sycamore leaf
  • Lifeguard
  • Bird
  • Cubs World Series Champions
  • “Hope”
  • L made out of pearls
  • Shepherd’s crook
  • Blue/gold, purple/gold wisemen set
  • White teddy bear of buttons (gift from Aunt Edie)
  • Wooden shoes (gift from Michelle)
  • Blue/silver snowflake set
  • Adornments
  • Alaska totem pole (the one that started my habit of buying ornaments for places I visit)

Absent from list: All my childhood ornaments and those from Caleb’s childhood, as they have never been found after a move several years ago. 

Events, Family, Favorites, Holidays, Memories, Travel

Love You Forever

A Picture List for My Son’s 24th Birthday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Events, Family, Favorites, Holidays, Inspirational, Memories

Twenty Three Ways My Kid Is Amazing (in honor of his 23rd birthday today)

  1. His sense of humor is unmatched.
  2. He’s smart and conceptual and thinks deeply.
  3. He never gets embarrassed. About anything.
  4. He taught himself to play guitar.
  5. A headbanger from the start, he now headbangs in his own heavy metal band.
  6. He’s hilarious.
  7. He is deeply compassionate and empathetic.
  8. He desires to make the world a better place.
  9. He works ridiculously hard.
  10. He desires experiences more than things.
  11. He sets goals and works to achieve them.
  12. He’s been “adulting” since the age of 19, paying his own rent and bills and way.
  13. He married his high school sweet heart and loves her with his entire being.
  14. He has a global outlook and cares about the world outside of his own.
  15. He laughs with his whole body.
  16. He carries things for me, (which is to say that he helps me any time I need it.)
  17. He programs electronics for his grandparents.
  18. He still loves old school video games.
  19. He has an inborn gift for music.
  20. He hugs his mama and tells me he loves me.
  21. He is never afraid to show affection to people he cares about.
  22. He has been through some things that would cripple lesser men, but the fires have forged him into a resilient and capable man.
  23. He is the best thing I have ever had a part in creating.

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