We’ve been at Mom and Dad’s since Friday—having a really good time.
Dad heated up the pool for us so we could swim again (just like we did at Thanksgiving). We all love that.
Today we went to Fort DeSoto—there’s an old Spanish-American War fort there, as well as a really nice beach. We walked a lot, [...]
Archive for December, 2007
30 Dec
Beachy Keen Fun in St. Pete, FL!
27 Dec
A Post-Christmas Afternoon at the Park
Hello, Friends!
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas! We at Echowood certainly did.
Christmas Eve was busy with baking, in the morning, and at night attending church (our whole family attended both Mass at the Catholic church and the Lutheran candlelight service, so you can imagine how pleased I was!).
On Christmas Day, we ate cinnamon rolls [...]
25 Dec
On Christmas Day. . .
Merry Christmas!
From all of us at Echowood, have a beautiful and very blessed holiday.
23 Dec
Feel Like Cryin’
This is weird. For about the past day and a half, I’ve had this bad feeling like, everywhere I go, people are giving me the evil eye. “Something wicked this way comes…..” and all that.
Maybe it’s the stress of the holidays. Not my stress, but other people’s stress, making people grouchy and [...]
22 Dec
The Book and the Confession
I said I was going to finish telling you about yesterday, today, but my enthusiasm to do so has kind of fizzled.
So I’m going to backtrack and tell you about today first, then I’ll talk about yesterday if I have the energy. If not, it’ll keep for another time (it’s nothing that exciting, anyhow).
After [...]
21 Dec
A Brilliant Day
Although today was just an “at home” day, it was so emotionally and physically busy that I will probably need to write several epistles in order to tell you everything.
But in the midst of all the blessed busyness, I stepped outside for a bit to take out some trash and collect the mail.
It was such [...]
20 Dec
A Blog is NOT a Christmas Letter!
A couple of moms I know (my own and someone else’s) have remarked that “everything always looks so perfect on a blog.”
That is simply not true.
Well, yes, in some way I suppose we do try to shed the best light on things—it’s part of our maturation process. We go from whining over the state [...]
19 Dec
Poll: What are your favorite movies to watch during the holidays?
Last night, I watched one of my all-time favorite films, The Shop Around the Corner, starring Margaret Sullavan and Jimmy Stewart. Oh, how I adore that movie!
For some reason, that plot never gets old with me, because two of my other all-time favorite movies are In the Good Old Summertime, starring Judy Garland and [...]
17 Dec
The Magazine Habit
I have been a huge fan of magazines ever since I was 11 years old and my mom bought me my first copy of ‘Teen. Do they even make that magazine anymore? I have no idea.
After I got hooked on ‘Teen, I then progressed to Seventeen and YM (remember when they changed it, [...]
17 Dec
A Little Christmas
My mom and dad came up to visit us this past weekend. Even though they live a 5- to 6-hour drive away, and even though we have spent the past three Christmases with my in-laws, we will not be spending Christmas with my parents and the rest of my family this year—mainly due to my [...]
