Archive for the ‘Holidays’ category

Is It “Twenty Ten”?

January 1st, 2010

This New Year is going to be a good one for us. I have big hopes and plans for 2010.
This morning we were watching the news and they were discussing whether it was proper to say “twenty ten” or should we say “two thousand ten”? I think it was only appropriate to say two thousand [...]

Christmas Wishes

December 25th, 2009

Merry Christmas to everyone! I love the idea of Christmas and how we should spread love and good cheer throughout our communities and the world. It is one of the few times that everyone in the world recognizes an important event, even if you have a different religion than mine,  and we all take the [...]

Independence Day

July 4th, 2009

Have you ever tried explaining Independence Day to a 6 year old? OMG! I talked to him for almost an hour about the Revolutionary War and the whole thing about Presidents and anything else I could think of that he might relate to. It was harder than I thought. He asked a lot of really [...]

Celebrating May Day

May 1st, 2009

Did you ever dance around a May Pole? I have, and it was great fun!
Do you know why we celebrate May Day? Yes I do – because I looked it up today!
For all the good Christians that live around me, here in the buckle of the Bible Belt, I doubt seriously that any of them [...]

Easter Eggs

April 12th, 2009

Do you like to boil eggs and then color them in the little Easter dye pots? I love to do that – it’s a family tradition that we’ve done as far back as I can remember. Sometimes I even color eggs when it’s not Easter. It’s easy and fun and I like to see the [...]