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Saturday Snap – Our Christmas Card House

It wouldn’t put Clark Griswold to shame but I pulled up to our house the other day and thought it looked like something that might appear on the front of a Christmas card (one you get at the Dollar Store but still…) Having the tree right in front of the window is something different we’re […]

¶ Posted 13 December 2014 § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – @OfficialRPL Christmas Party (December 2009)

Hard to believe that this weekend will be the seventh RPL Christmas Party I’ve attended. Here’s some pics from one of the first ones I attended back in 2009… Pace and his daddy in one of my favourite ever pictures of the two of us… The assembled kids and parents watching a magician perform […]

¶ Posted 11 December 2014 § Library § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday

Music Monday – “Can’t get out of the yard / I’m snowed in with the drifts / No one is coming to open these gifts”

I’m a big believer that the best Christmas songs are the ones with a sense of sadness and melancholy underlying them. Corb Lund has jumped to the top of that category with his latest song. An 80-year old rancher buying gifts for his gifts just in case they show up for Christmas even though they’re […]

¶ Posted 08 December 2014 § MusicMonday § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, holiday, music

Saturday Snap – Candy Cane Lane #yqr

As a follow-up to my post about SparkleTour.ca, Shea and I ended up doing a mini-sparkle tour in the north end last night after running a couple errands. One of our stops was an area called Candy Cane Lane where the residents of the Normanview community are encouraged to decorate their homes for Christmas. One […]

¶ Posted 06 December 2014 § Family § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, saskatchewan

A Christmas Tradition

Baby crying on Santa’s lap…

¶ Posted 03 December 2014 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (1) °

“Spirit of Giving” – WestJet Does It Again

Just like last year, WestJet has created a viral-ready commercial/marketing gimmick/promo video for the Christmas season. Instead of surprising travelers on a cross-Canada flight with gifts they asked for at the start of their journey like they did in their inaugural video last year, this year WestJet provided personalized gifts for residents of a town in the Dominican […]

¶ Posted 02 December 2014 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, holiday

Two Dozen Retailers Won’t Open on American #Thanksgiving (And They’re Shaming the Ones That Will)

Some of the best known companies in the United States including Costco, Home Depot and TJ Maxx have taken a family-first approach to American Thanksgiving after watching “Black Friday” (the day after Thanksgiving named as such since it’s the day many retailers “get in the black” for the year) increasingly encroaching on one of America’s biggest family holidays. […]

¶ Posted 27 November 2014 § Family § Jobs § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, holiday, unitedstates

SparkleTour.ca #yqr #saskatchewan #yxe #moosejaw #princealbert

[Edit: Yikes! When I posted this, didn’t realize there was a mini-controversy about a local radio station stealing the name and data from the original Sparkletour web site. Bah-humbug!] It’s now less than a month to Christmas. Sparkletour.ca helps you get into the spirit of the season with an ever-growing list of houses worth checking […]

¶ Posted 26 November 2014 § Internet § List § Randomness § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: holiday, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Decorating the Christmas Tree

I think Pace forgot where the star goes…

¶ Posted 22 November 2014 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Happy Singles Day!

Originally started by Chinese university students as an anti-Valentines Day where single people were encouraged to buy themselves gifts, “Singles Day” on November 11 (11/11) has exploded in popularity over the past five years to become China’s equivalent of Black Friday with their Amazon/eBay clone, Alibaba, leading the charge. I heard about it last year […]