There’s just something magical about a 4-year-old. When you’re 4 years old at Christmas time, there’s magic everywhere you look. Beautifully decorated trees and houses. Twinkling lights throughout the neighborhood. A month filled with Christmas crafts at school, writing letters to Santa (and the Blue Devil, naturally) and a daily countdown to The Big Day….
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Creating New Christmas Memories
‘Tis the season for constant activities, fa la la la, la la la. Phew! What a busy week and we haven’t even made it to Christmas yet. Here’s a quick look at how we’re packing merriment into every waking moment. On Thursday, we shivered at Ice! Every winter in Florida, we get a cold snap…
Cousins First, Friends Forever
I’ve started and trashed this post about 10 times over the past two-and-a-half weeks. As many of you know, my cousin Rachel died on Dec. 1, after a nearly five-year battle against cancer. She was 34 years old. She was a wife, a mother of two young children, a daughter, a sister to six brothers…
It Was Bound to Happen Eventually
When you blog long enough, you begin to anticipate two eventual things: 1) at some point, you’ll discover someone has scraped your content off your site and/or plagiarized one of your posts and 2) someone will take one of your photos and use it without credit and out of context. I guess I’ve officially arrived…
Escaping the Madness for Magic
I’m becoming a broken record. It’s been another few days spent crying more than smiling. How to put into words what we’re all feeling together? I was just starting to come out of the haze of my cousin’s death. Instead of always crying when I thought of her, I even found myself smiling at certain…