I shared a little about our Christmas yesterday, but there are few things that stand out in the afterglow that will linger in my heart for a long time. First is the effort everyone who was healthy made to be present in whatever they could. There were the three that trekked down to join us…
Nobody talks much about this but there is a charm to the early years of grandparenting that has to change. It has to adjust and adapt because little cherubs grow and they should. It’s part of life. This morning, I spent what was actually a half hour, but was described to me later as lasting…
Russ and I were driving home from up north the other night and noticed Christmas lights on farm houses across the fields and as we pulled into our own neighborhood. He asked, me in a thoughtful way, why people put their Christmas trim up in early November. We are old school. We come from the…