Thinking about how I was NOT going to put any candy in my kids’ Easter baskets this year reminded me of the following conversation I had with my mom around Christmastime (round about the time Bastien had a wee bit of an obsession with candy canes). My Mom: Are you going to put candy canes [...]

I’ll tell you one thing: it was a Christmas of abundant blessings. And I’ll tell you another: it was exhausting. The rest of the story is here.

See those bags under her eyes? That’s because she didn’t sleep all weekend. My, Christmas is exciting! See those scrapes on his face? That’s from a high-impact sledding incident. Exciting indeed. And this is why kids love Christmas, and grandparents love being grandparents.

We tend to go a little overboard with the mailings in this household. But c’mon, what else would you expect from a Direct Marketing writer and a Photographer husband and wife team? Add two cute babies to the mix, and well, can you blame us? So this year’s Christmas card took about a year to [...]