A VERY PERSONALIZED CHRISTMAS ; I See Me Personalized Books & Gifts Personalized books, CDs and the like can be a dicey proposition. Mouse got an Elmo CD once with her name squeezed into each and every verse (although it seemed like every other word) and it was painful to […]
Tiny gifts kinda rule, right? Tucked in deep under the tree as an extra special surprise once the presents pile appears to have dried up and Christmas seems over, or dropped down deep into stockings hung by the chimney with care — little gifts can pack a ton of joy. […]
Black Friday doesn’t mark the start of the holiday season around here, no, it is when we get assigned our sponsor-a-child child that Christmastime officially begins. Every bit as much as overeating cookies, blowing our gift budget, and my personal obsession to find the very most perfectest wrapping paper ever, […]
The Act II Playhouse in Ambler is an entertainment destination I’ve never visited, or, frankly, heard of until last week. But the intimate, suburban theater is staging a unique holiday show for all-ages called Murray the Elf so its time maybe we all figure out how to get there. Here’s […]
No pigs in or out of blankets, zero infantile quiches, and rarely ever an evil egg. We four enjoy all of these delicacies very much, for sure, but save for officially-sanctioned family Christmastime visits to my mom and dad’s house, we don’t do hor-d’oeuvres. So when the Hickory Farms Home […]
For the majority of my very privileged childhood, my parents called me spoiled. But I never felt that I deserved the tag because I rarely ever asked for anything. No kidding. I just got tons of stuff. Frankly, that wasn’t a me problem. It was a them problem. Yet I […]
It came upon a midnight clear and what do my wondering eyes should appear but a Christmas music compilation album from some of kindie music’s best and brightest. The album is called Kris Kindie and includes a nice mix of original & traditional Christmas songs from the likes of Sugar […]
This is the post I started writing last Thursday, with the working title “A Mild Christmas Breakdown”: I am writing this post as a means for catharsis for me because I am kinda freaking out right now. The Mouse is going through a stretch of excessive crying over tiny inconveniences […]
