The OWTK Christmas Tree The Bear and Mouse each received, roughly, 7 gifts from Santa and 8 from The Mrs. and I.  That doesn’t include the 2 joint gifts from the jolly ol’ elf and another pair from us, stocking stuffers here or at Mom mom & Pop pop’s, or gifts from family members. ...

No idea when she planned/prepared this, but The Bear gave The Mrs. and I a gift on Christmas Day.  It was a postcard that she’d purchased in Newport, RI during the summer.  It had been lying around her room ever since.  At some point on Christmas eve or day, she slipped away to wrap it nicely...

The Muppets joined Jimmy Fallon and The Roots to sing “12 Days of Christmas”.  Fallon looks genuinely unnerved at first, but warms up a bit.  Pretty sweet stuff.  Check it:

Kids grow up, get married, and start families of their own.  It’s at this point, or maybe it actually happens earlier – during the growing up bit – that kids start to become detached from their parents.  Phone conversations become more and more infrequent, y’all see each other...

Putumayo Presents “A Family Christmas” The Sound: An eclectic (although less so than other Putumayo World music compilations), mostly mellow mix of Christmas standards along with some lesser known holiday tunes you definitely won’t be hearing while walking around the mall. Best Moments:...

We were just in A.C. for a college basketball tournament, to cheer on my MSU Spartans.  While in the East Coast gambling mecca, we hit a couple of the well-promoted family holiday events.  Here’s my quick take on what we saw: The Tropicana indoor snowfall (every 15 minutes) was underwhelming,...