We host a Christmas party each year, and every year, I forget what was a hit food wise and what wasn’t.  This is  a run down of what we had to eat, what we should not have had to eat, and what we might want to add next year. TABLE ONE – The Main Food…

So my kids are very used to the Christmas television classics – Rudolph, Drummer Boy, and Frosty.  They’ve seen different versions, but we stay pretty faithful to the ones everyone knows.  Frosty has his song – you all know it – and in the song somewhere, they sing “Thumpity Thump Thump, Thumpity Thump Thump”.  It’s…

These pictures need to be fixed

I was so dreading going into this thing by myself and Jim could not get off from work.  Last year, I left crying, so I was holding out hope that I could at least make it to the car before I broke into tears. All my concerns were quickly put at ease.  Eilis’ teachers described…

Eilis only had one day of school this week, so Dram and Pop-pop got the brilliant idea that they would keep her for the week.  I dropped her off on Monday, to be picked up on Friday.  Of course, Eilis didn’t want to come home, because Dram’s house is full of anything but rules,  meals…

So I was sitting at my desk the other day, feeding Gracie.  Eilis was in the living room, watching Dora on the television.  One minute, I heard her yelling gleefully at the TV “Swiper, No Swiping!”, and the next thing I knew, she was standing in the doorway of the office/laundry room, crying and screaming…