Holidays and Celebrations

  • A North Carolina Wedding: The First Installment

    / November 13, 2011

    Early November stole swiftly upon us.  Before I knew it, I was gathering my wedding toasting glasses, silver cake cutting utensils, leftover wedding ribbons and faux autumn leaves, scarves and sweaters and little…

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  • Spook

    / October 8, 2011

    The boys received their annual Halloween packages from two of their aunts today.  Every single year since I gave birth to my first little monster, two of my sisters have sent boxes of…

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  • Censored

    / October 4, 2011

    Oh man, lots of things on my mind, most of them improper for public consumption.  The emotional load has been heavy lately, for a number of reasons, mostly related to extended family troubles…

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  • Mr. and Mrs. Andrew and Corrie P.

    / August 6, 2011

    July twenty-third dawned hot and sunny.  Corrie had arranged for all of us ‘maids to spend the morning together at a spa.  Makeup, hair, and nails were on our own dime, so each…

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  • THE Wedding of 2011 . . .

    / August 3, 2011

    . . . (until November 5 . . .) (when my other sister gets married, of course!) So, I’m not going to tease you.  I’ll go ahead and start this post with a…

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