If vacations, graduations, and big life events were our only moments with these kids, I would be grateful for the time, but I know that so much life is happening in the days, weeks, and months between our visits.
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Our Final Graduation
When your kids are little and you have your head down just down doing the day to day crazy of raising a family, it’s hard to conceive of a day where that isn’t your life. You know it happens, but it just feels so far away.
The Christmas Gathering: Update
As I put the prime-rib in the oven, the dogs were barking and the boys were busy trying out our holiday drink concoctions, I wondered for a brief moment if it was all going to come together. Then I remembered that this chaos also belonged to everyone that was invited. These dogs were their grand-dogs and half of these adult kids belonged to them as well. I sent a quick text to remind them all that our chaos was their chaos and I hoped they were prepared.
The Christmas Gathering
The middle is always where the good stuff lives whether you are talking about cookies, parties, or life and it’s where the memories are made.
Gathering the Un-Gathered
Unlike Thanksgiving, Christmas is an entire season and I couldn’t call my friends to ask if we could spend Thanksgiving to New Year’s with them, could I? Well, maybe I could, but I decided the grown-up thing to do was to change my perspective.
Thankful Thursday: Holiday Memories That Last!
Once the fireworks are over, the grill has cooled, and the canoe has been brought to shore, like every holiday you are left with the memories, the experience. Last year, our family (or most of it) celebrated Christmas in July in Georgetown, Colorado. It was a mishmash of chaos, good food, hilarity and other events…
Lowi & G 