Tag Archives: holiday

Music Monday – “Who really needs a gift/When love is meant to give/I can still recall/Carry with me always/Every Christmas dream/They live in you and me”

“Something About December” – Christina Perri

Saturday Snap – Capes and Costumes

Halloween was over a month ago but these kids don’t seem to know it…

Friday Fun Link – Happy Black Friday!

All-Time Black Friday Death & Injury Count. Also this…    

Saturday Snap – Christmas Tree Update

We’ve had a blue and silver themed tree since we lived in Calgary when those colours fit into our condo’s young hip colour scheme. 😉 Now that we’re older and more mature, we thought it was finally time to change to a warmer colour scheme that better matched the colours in our home (also decorations were […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – When Do You Put Up Your Christmas Tree? (Nov 2008)

Because Pace dad was so excited, we put it up in mid-November a few years ago!

Remembrance Day Takes Many Forms

Remembrance Day is when I think of my Grandpa Peet, a WWII veteran more than any day of the year. And he was at the front of my thoughts even more than usual over the last couple days with the news that one of his three remaining siblings, my Great Uncle Bobby, had passed away in […]

Friday Fun Link – The Nostalgia Machine

The Nostalgia Machine will generate a playlist for the year you were born (or any other year – want to re-live your high school prom?  The year you got married?)

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Blau Varadero, Cuba (March 2011)

Pace runs from the waves on our first morning in Cuba a few years ago…

10 “Must Have” Things I Look For In An All-Inclusive Resort

Shea and I have been on a handful of all-inclusive vacations over the years.  Every place has had its good and bad points but overall, these varied trips to Mexico (Mazatlan, Mayan Riviera, Cancun), Cuba (Varadero) and most recently, the Dominican Republic (Punta Cana), have given me a pretty good idea of some of the things I […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Cuba Libre! (March 2011)

This is the reminder that popped up on my work computer the day before we left for Cuba a few years back…