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Saturday Snap – Something For The Stocking

Posted 15 December 2018 § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – 12 Elf On The Shelf Ideas To Thrill Kids And 12 That’ll Scar Them For Life

I think next year I’ll have to get an Elf on the Shelf to entertain myself instead of Sasha!

Posted 14 December 2018 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Sasha § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Setting Up The Christmas Tree (December 2008)

Posted 13 December 2018 § Family § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

10 Christmas Disagreements

It wasn’t intentional but posting “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight)” by the Ramones yesterday got me thinking about ways family members might disagree on important topics at this time of year: Jason vs. Shea: When to put up the tree. Me: November 12. Her: Early December. Compromise: usually late November. Shea vs. Jason: How to […]

Posted 11 December 2018 § Family § Humour § List § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Where is Santa at his sleigh?/Tell me why is it always this way?/Where is Rudolph? Where is Blitzen, baby?/Merry Christmas, merry merry merry Christmas”

“Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight Tonight)” – The Ramones

Posted 10 December 2018 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – @officialRPL Kids Xmas Party and Bookmas Tree

Hard to believe we’ve been going to the Regina Public Library Kids Christmas Party for ten years.  (Well, Sasha hasn’t been going that long but her brother’s been going since he was a baby!) …and you might see a bit of it in our family pic but here’s a better short of the beautiful “Bookmas […]

Posted 08 December 2018 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Work § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Lord it’s like a hard candy Christmas/I’m barely getting through tomorrow/But still I won’t let/Sorrow bring me way down”

The phrase “hard candy Christmas” refers to a time in American history when many families who did not have much money could only afford to give penny candy to their children at Christmas…The hard candy metaphor suggests that life can be hard and sweet at the same time. “Hard Rock Candy” – Dolly Parton

Posted 03 December 2018 § Library § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Work § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

My 10 Favourite Christmas Songs

I’ve posted a lot of Christmas songs over the years, mostly as Music Monday posts, but I don’t think I’ve ever tried to make a list of my favourite Xmas songs, at least until now. So what makes a great Christmas song in my mind? Weirdly with how joyful the season is, my favourites mostly […]

Posted 02 December 2018 § Family § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § UK § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Rating the Statutory Holidays

We have lots of official (and many unofficial – Halloween anyone?) holidays in our society.  So I thought it might be an interesting thought experiment to try to rank them in terms of how important they are to me. Obvious disclaimer – how people feel about holidays depends on so many different factors – if […]

Posted 11 November 2018 § Canada § Family § List ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Still A Favourite Halloween Memory

This is still one of my favourite Halloween memories of all time. When Pace was around five years old, he was really into Bat-man.  He had his costume all picked out so the night before Halloween, I figured out a great way to surprise him. I did a quick late night trip to the nearest pop-up […]

Posted 01 November 2018 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: