Last summer during my Mom and Dad's garage sale, my Mom had a bunch of old Christmas ornaments for sale.   I took two ornaments...Far G...

The stockings have been hung on the fireplace mantle…only two so far but everyone will bring theirs along.  If you don’t bring your stocking...

Christmas Day in 1969.  Far Guy and I had been married five days.  We spent Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas Day with Far Guy’s fa...

These are photos that Far Guy’s Mom put in a photo album for him. They are not marked with a year…I would guess it is 1958 or 1959. The chai...

The downstairs tree is done.  Complete. Two weeks to spare.  Yahoo for me. We have Bubble Lights and Merry Go Round Horses at the bottom o...

Will be revealed soon.   How about a give away?  To be entered into the drawing leave me a comment with the completion of this sentence.  My...

A very long time ago.  Christmas 1974 to be exact…Trica was little…just two years and eight months old. (This was BJ…Before Jennifer)  We li...

We had a house full of company.  These are all polaroid photos taken with Marvin’s camera. Jennifer (10) Janice (Far Guy’s sister), Trica ...

In December of 1975 our daughters Trica (3 years 8 months old) and Jennifer (3 months old) at our home in Moorhead MN.  Thirty nine years ag...

A long time ago my Mother’s best friend Ann would toil away in the kitchen in the days before Christmas.  Inevitably a tray of cookies would...

Dragging the tree to it’s spot in the living room, leaving behind a trail of needles and possibly some pine pitch.  (our house) Every cat i...

Yesterday I sat down to mail out sympathy cards. One to a former customer, her husband died last week.  The other to my cousin in Nevada who...

Far Guy has a set of Bubble Lights.  He remembers them from Christmas Trees when he was a child.  We did not put them on our tree..instead w...

Sometimes I look back on some of these old photos and I look at my hair and my glasses and shake my head..like this one taken back in 1963. ...

A long time ago..1990 to be exact.. I had a dream. No not one of those Christmas nightmares either. We were living at the resort..one area o...

Sometimes late at night I think and try to remember...things from a simpler time. I have not thought about "Wish Books" in years. ...

The year was 1962..my brothers were two and eight, I was eleven.   I desperately wanted a pair of figure skates, I wanted to glide along t...