Here’s the short version of my weekend: We met our brand-new honourary nephew. You’ll notice that Robin actually looks fairly comfortable holding the baby. This is because every time a baby is born, we shove the small squirming human into his arms, take a few pictures of both him & the baby looking uncomfortable, and […]
Last but not least, my parents’ tree! Mum always threatens to do a theme tree, but I love the familiar jumbled look of the ornaments. Many of the ornaments are new, but that’s because Mum has handed many of the family ornaments to my brother and I (at least, I think my brother has the […]
Happy boxing day! I’m carrying the merriment forward a day or two, seeing as there were at least four or five trees in my Yule, I present the first of my two Christmas Day trees. This is the tree in my in-laws’ house. Robin’s parents’ main floor has wonderfully high ceilings, so I needed to […]
Today’s tree is courtesy Robin’s brother and his lovely significant other, who hosted our Christmas Eve festivities. It was a definite non-traditional fare this year, with the main dish being home-cooked Ribs. And as an added bonus: Robin with a baby! This is our newest niece, Darby. She’s almost 2 months old. She’s already holding […]
We did some cleaning this past weekend; put a bunch of stuff away. In the process, we unpacked a bunch of Christmas stuff that had been set aside to go through later. The little pink ornament on the mantel? That’s a wee gift from my niece, Georgia. She was visiting with her family this past […]