"Grab a brew. Don't cost nothin'" - Bluto, "Animal House"
It always seems that there is going to be a long stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas, so as usual, I delayed even thinking about preparing for Christmas until we got a week or so into December. Then time really begins to fly as I scramble around trying to get everything in place. This year has […]
The main purpose of this posting is to share these fun and silly photos that Lisa and I took of ourselves in front of our first Christmas tree together, but I also have some vivid memories of the preparations we made for Christmas 1995. Although we had spent Christmas ‘94 together, this would be our first one while officially living together […]
A Christmas Story is a film that generally makes an appearance in my house during every yuletide season. Because of my love for this movie, I was willing to shell out $40 or so to have Bob pick me up the photo above from one of the Hollywood Collectors Shows during the early 2000’s. Peter […]
Since my marriage had effectively ended not long before, I opted to forego holding Christmas Eve (or at least some portion of it) at my house for the first time since 1994. So we had a mess of places to visit and in addition I had my new girlfriend Carolyn’s family to contend with. As […]
After Carolyn and I met, we naturally were spending lots of time together. But we had to take a break for at least one night in mid-November, not long before the Thanksgiving holiday, when I had to pack up Ashleigh and Briana and head all the way down to Burlington, Kentucky, to star in a Kroger training video on […]