I'm taking a short break from packing to say a quick hello and wish you Merry Christmas. It's the time of year we head to the mount...

Busy days around here. We made an early Christmas visit to see the smallest ones  and to attend their school  Christmas program. Little Brot...

  Years ago I attended a community Christmas dinner at Mommy's church and I remember walking into their gym and seeing the many tables b...

Toasted Maple Pecans Just because you're not having a Christmas party this year doesn't mean you can't have party food. We decid...

Pattern: Sock Recipe: A Good Plain Sock, by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Yarn:  Lollipop Yarn Quintessential, Christmas Carol colorway ...

Apple Cake Before I left at the end of last week, I baked a quick-to-make cake for Daddy-O so he would not feel neglected or forgotten....

Nine dozen eggs. Or maybe it was 10. Five pounds of butter. About 20 pounds of apples. (We had fried apples, apples dumplings, apples in ...

I don't know where you are in your holiday preparations, but I might be a little behind. I got home last night from several days o...

The view from my kitchen when I poured my coffee today. I love morning. It's that time of year—for me, at least—when thinking abo...

How are things at your house? The count down to Christmas is getting intense. I know there are some of you who had everything in place fo...

Way back in the 1950s, my mother was friends with the editor of our small town newspaper. For reasons I don't know, he decided to mak...

I went to visit the grandchildren last weekend. I got to watch Little Sister cheer at a basketball game. ("You know, that game w...

I think I lived an entire year's worth of life last week. I'm not even telling what the whole week held because listi...