When I was a kid, my mom would wake us up at 12:01 am on Christmas Day to open presents. When I had my own I decided I was not going that route. We usually wake up at a more normal hour, like 6 am. Then the kids get up and tear into their stockings [...]

This is a continuation of yesterday’s post. Today we will talk about hanging out in Homestead, Florida. Still going to attempt to avoid discussing Christmas Day because that really is going to be a long post! After arriving we didn’t really stay up late. Mostly sat and chatted. Christmas Eve I set about exploring the [...]

Well we are back home from our trip to Homestead Florida. In short, it was a great vacation. I really didn’t think I could handle a holiday away from home and in a tropical location. Yea well I was way wrong. I have so much to say and so many pics to show that I [...]

So yesterday we hit Walmart because I needed so many different things I thought I would save myself the hassle of visiting 5 different stores and go to one. I went straight to the Christmas center and looked through ornaments. I finally found some labeled mini. I looked at them and bought them even though [...]

Here it is, the first one my kids ever made! I hope that we get snow more often in the future. They enjoy it so much. I just hope if we get it, we get it without the power outages. There are still over 30,000 people without power here in WNC. My heart goes out [...]