This year’s holiday started off like countless others; a huddle of us consuming drinks quickly before the uncomfortable guests arrived. I figured it would turn out the same, too. (Harmlessly dodging mouth kisses and eating too much cheese dip.) Boy, was I wrong.
In my family, we like to not talk [...]
After such a long break, I feel like I should have something deep and insightful to write but, alas, I’ve got squat.
The Thanksgiving holiday was wonderful with its almost complete lack of drama. The dinners [yes, dinners] were delicious and for the most part, no one put [...]
Or, The Crazy-Eyed Peacock Octo-Turkey Bandit Finds a Home
So. Thanksgiving happened. Time to put the food where my braggy mouth is. Photos, confessions, and plenty o' dorkwads, ahoy!
If there's anything better than homemade piecrust, it's husbandmade homemade piecrust.
International Space Station as STS-129 Departs (Image Source: NASA)
Good day everyone. If you are from the US, hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday. If you are not from the US, hope it was a great week all the [...]
Know Your Limits, Avoid the Turkey Hangover.
The Frank family just finished up their Thanksgiving dinner. Bob Frank, the youngest cousin, capped off his dinner with half of a pumpkin pie. This was after four servings of Turkey, a ton of ham, [...]
Each month I feature 5 of my Parenting posts that are favorites of my readers and/or mine.
November leaves image: sxc.hu
Here are 5 for November:
Thanksgiving Becomes a National Holiday
Repurposing With Your Youngsters
Each month I feature 5 of my Parenting posts that are favorites of my readers and/or mine.
November leaves image: sxc.hu
Here are 5 for November:
Thanksgiving Becomes a National Holiday
Repurposing With Your Youngsters
Photo: Flickr/laurgasms (CC)
I gave you all an easy puzzle for Thanksgiving and you responded well. We received over 250 responses! Congratulations to Dan for having his answer randomly chosen from among all the correct answers! He’ll receive a $50 gift certificate from ThinkGeek! Puzzle and [...]
One thing I hate about the holidays is that it points up the separateness of families after divorce.
In our home, in our family, in our divorce, we’ve emphasized the family unit as something immutable, something permanent and indestructible. Moms and Dads may divorce, they may split one unhappy household into [...]
This Thanksgiving I have so much to be thankful for.It was the night before Thanksgiving, and all through the house, not a creature was sleeping, except for the boy and his, well, that's our Doofus Dawg and he is WAY bigger than a mouse.
Then, someone' [...]
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This is the sixth year in a row that we've hosted. I think it's safe to say Thanksgiving is "our" holiday. As usual, we had a really lovely time. Each year, Guy's nephew and his family trade-off with his wife's family and I find my favorite Thanksgivings are when' [...]
I drove away from him with tears in my eyes. Instead of spending Thanksgiving together as a family, Tate had to stay behind and work. Hours were spent strategizing, trying to figure out a way for him to come with us, [...]
Time, they say, heals all wounds. While I don’t think this applies for every situation I do know that there is some truth to the statement. Five years ago we brought our daughters home from the hospital on Thanksgiving day. They had been born premature at 30 weeks gestation (which [...]
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Ours was relaxed and happy -- just what I was hoping for.
Thank you to those of you who sent in your Thanksgiving tips. As promised, one of you wins this adorable Lulla-Bear MP3 player: and the winner [...]
This year’s Thanksgiving surprise will remain in our memories for a long time.
We’d adjusted to the idea that our granddaughter, who attends college 500 miles away, wouldn’t be home for Thanksgiving. Imagine our surprise with her arrival Tuesday evening. She’d been able to arrange a ride with a classmate and his parents to their home [...]
This year’s Thanksgiving surprise will remain in our memories for a long time.
We’d adjusted to the idea that our granddaughter, who attends college 500 miles away, wouldn’t be home for Thanksgiving. Imagine our surprise with her arrival Tuesday evening. She’d been able to arrange a ride with a classmate and his parents to their home [...]
We had a lovely, quiet, relaxing Thanksgiving at home today. Even the cooking and cleanup was smooth and easy, due to lots of prep work yesterday! We ate and ate, and everything was so yummy. It's fun now that Sam is old enough to get really [...] It's Sarah K.K., back with a Thanksgiving installment of Toddler Thursday ...
This week, for pretty obvious reasons, I've been reflecting on the things I'm thankful for, and moment by moment, the list has been growing. Here are some of the highlights:
-- I'm thankful for my amazing son,' [...]
