New Year, New Possibilities

If I am honest, I am not sure making pottery was ever really rattling around in my brain before my friend suggested we take a class, but then the idea became intriguing.  So, in late October, Andy and I took a pottery class with a group of friends.

Home Away From Home

This place is not just our home away from home. It’s part of us, and when we haven’t been here for a while, we feel it calling us back.

Tripping on traditions

Change always brings with it a little friction. Don’t let that get in the way of cultivating some fun, even if this season has part of it that you wouldn’t have chosen.

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.

The Thanksgiving Kids’ Table

“When can I sit at the adult table?” This is a question that will be murmured from the lips of tweens, 20-somethings and if you are in our family, possibly 40-somethings this week. When your family tree spreads out like ours, a holiday meal cannot be contained to one dining table. In our tradition of…