by Francie | Feb 13, 2013 | Family, Holiday
I love the holiday for love: Valentine’s Day. In the olden days, we received our Valentine cards in decorated white paper bags with red and pink hearts cut from construction paper. Paper doilies added flare. We wrote out Valentine’s for every person in the class,...
by Francie | Dec 19, 2012 | Family, Holiday, Movies and Books
Who’s the kid around here anyway? My boys were aghast on December 1st when I suggested eating Mexican take-out and watching a Christmas special. They rolled their eyes. “Mom. It’s just barely December. It’s too early for Christmas.” I was aghast at their response. I...
by Francie | Dec 11, 2012 | Holiday, Shopping
I love shopping, most of it, especially of the non-food variety. Whether it’s fashion or food, bringing a list or having a specific goal like new jeans or a dozen eggs used to be enough to feel armed and ready to hit the bricks. Any more, it seems shopping resembles...
by Francie | Nov 19, 2012 | Family, Food, Holiday
What’s inside your Thanksgiving turkey? Or do you even stuff it? Maybe the goal is to gobble until stuffed on Thanksgiving? And what kind of stuff is in your stuffing? I’m going retro this year and so is a good chunk of my family, stretching out to my cousins...
by Francie | Jul 3, 2012 | Holiday
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by Francie | Apr 6, 2012 | Family, Holiday
Since I can remember, every Easter included a treasure hunt, a real one with oodles of clues and plenty of booty. My Dad hand-wrote, rhyming clues on slips of yellow legal pad paper and hid them through out the house in colorful plastic eggs. So crafty was he, you...
