Archive for the ‘Christmas’ Category

23 quick! post the Christmas pictures! before they’re irrelevant!

(Attn. architecture and design gurus: the great-grandparents live in a house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for them. True story. If you look closely at the pictures, you can see some classic Wright angles and styles, especially in the furniture.) (Get it? Wright angles? Bahaha.) A very Swedish Christmas Eve dinner at OBaby’s Great Grandpa [...]

9 Christmas from a parent’s eyes

Hi friends. I hope you and your families had a wonderful Christmas celebration today. I don’t have many words right now, but a thought just occurred to me that I wanted to share with you. Watching OBaby this morning with all of the celebration, excitement, and gifts was the best part of my day. The [...]

29 thankfully, there’s more where that came from

I was looking through pictures from Christmas last year. If I had wanted to keep my makeup in-tact, that would have been a really, really bad idea. Brace yourself (and your heart parts) for a picture of OBaby on Christmas morning last year. I can’t look at that picture and not cry. This one, either: [...]

24 Christmas, but different.

Spoiler alert: If you are part of O My Extended Family, you may want to avert your eyes from this post, it contains details and teasers of your Christmas gifts. You have been warned. This year, our Christmas “present” budget was less than $100 for roughly 18 family members – parents, siblings, and siblings’ significant [...]