Please enjoy this little holiday bon bon – a New Year’s Eve vignette featuring our MFCs: Kenna, Candace and Frankie. ************* “What are you wearing tonight?” Kenna asked as she admired her new French Manicure. Candace sank deeper into the massage chair and made ‘jazz hands’, “Sparkles!” “Whatever I have in my closet that matches…
Month: December 2016
Comic Relief
As S. A. Young noted on Monday, the end of this year just keeps on delivering blow after blow of bad news. We barely have time to absorb one more death or massacre or assassination before another happens. 2016 has been a bout of cosmic rope-a-dope. I attended a memorial service yesterday for a dear…
I’m Crying ‘Uncle’!
Good morning friends! Well, we did it. We made it to the other side of another Christmas. Every year the hustle and bustle leading up to that one special day seems to come to a screeching halt on the 26th of December. For some of us, it’s a day to laze about in our new jammies,…
May Your Kingdom Be Peaceful and Bright
‘Twas The Day Before, The Day Before Christmas
…and I can’t find IT. That excitement, and wonder often felt this time of year. Practically Dickensian, has been my joy in seasons past. I felt the bonds beginning to slip while putting up the decorations at church, after choir practice, when the church was quiet with Gregg (The Husband) and Kate. JSB couldn’t be there,…
Puppies for Christmas!
I wish the puppies were already here so I could post pics and vids! They’re on the road, though. Fergus’ little sister Sophie should be here early to mid-afternoon. Cousin Piper, who neither Fergus nor Sophie has met yet, will be here tomorrow. Her mom and dad are driving from Texas — a two-day drive….
Christmas Staycation
Good morning and Happy Monday! Today is the first day of my vacation – a staycation if you will. (Of course my alarm went off at 6:00am because I forgot to turn it off. I did, however, force myself to stay in bed until 8:30. ) So, here I am, all snug and warm in…
2016 Family Letter
2016 Looking Back to See Ahead 2016 was an amazing year for the SSS family, personally and professionally and we are so thankful for all of you who have taken the journey with us. As you know we completed the manuscript for Eden’s Fall in October!! Following the reviews and much analysis of our…
Bunt! Humbug!
The kitchen was a veritable Santa’s Workshop of activity. Yours truly as Head Elf baking three yes THREE different kids of goodies at once to deliver to neighbors, mailman, Schwan’s man, UPS, FedEx…pretty much whoever we will see in the next ten days. Of course something was going to go wrong…. My mini-bunts didn’t bunt!…
Winter Isn’t Coming — It’s HERE
Next Wednesday, December 21, is the Winter Solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere. (For those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, well, enjoy a nice, long, day full of light and Vitamin D. We’ll be thinking of you.) Some people consider the shortest day/longest night to be the middle of Winter, but no. Winter just…