I love beach-themed Christmas décor. Who am I kidding? I love beach-themed anything. I’m the girl with beach-themed waste receptacles, for goodness sake. But there’s something about a decked-out, beach-themed Christmas tree in particular that just gives me that feeling of being somewhere different, somewhere unlike Chicago, my land of origin. Not that you can’t […]
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Elf On My Shelf
Last year, my mom introduced the small people to Elf on the Shelf. As I found out, we are probably the last people on earth to have heard of Elf on the Shelf, but in case there’s one more of you out there, Elf is a little creature (with his own book, if you are […]
A Reading Specialist’s Christmas Aliteracy
Last year, I decided I needed a new Christmas tree skirt. My color scheme for our tree had evolved over the years, and I was overdue for a new skirt that better complemented the tree. The day I decided to find one, I had a list of things to buy and a series of stores […]
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Thanksgiving Weekend Beach Football
Hope everyone had a restful, food-and-family-filled Thanksgiving last week. I know we sure did. The boys also got their game on this weekend. Their game of beach football, that is. The weather was beautiful Saturday and Sunday, calling us out to the beach on both afternoons. On Saturday, my younger son decided they were going […]
A Carolina Island Life: How It Came To Pass, Part VIII
More than just about any house I’ve ever seen, that house had some kind of magic in its walls, a storybook feel to it. We had first stumbled on the house in the paper, and on our initial drive-by, it looked even better in person. Then, one day we looked on the internet, and the […]
The Thanksgiving Day Appliance Malfunction
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope everyone has a wonderful and blessed day. I hope everyone spends time with family and friends. I hope everyone has a bountiful table. And, I hope everyone has better appliances than mine. Yesterday, I wrote about my new appliance malfunctions that presented themselves Monday while preparing baked goods for the […]