KattyWilly

Here’s something I like about sending out my Christmas cards each year. For just the price of a stamp the post office will tell you that it knows what my friend’s new address is and prints a nice sticker on the envelope of my Christmas cards and then sends them back to me so I [...]

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Halley’s doing weather reports so I thought I’d mention that it is absolutely georgeous here today. I was out at lunch and found this little Russian market where I picked up a bottle of Obolon Premium beer from the Ukraine and a Kiper Bock from Poland. And what would some nice beer be without some [...]

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Halley is wondering what the bloggers are up to today, note: I’m not one of those famous bloggers she lists . I’m at work, wishing I was home with the girls. I’m also looking up a recipe for a friend that putting together her menu for the New Year’s Eve party. I like making a [...]

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Over at Heathervescent she is asking “If money was not an issue, what kind of life would you lead?” I have been thinking about this for the past few years. In my case I’ve been trying to figure out how much money it would take for money not to be an issue. That is I’ve [...]

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One of my daily aggregator flows is BigHappyFunHouse. I think Ron lives in the Chicago area where I happened to grow up. He collects old photos and posts them to his web site. There are some great photos over there. Every now and then I’ll see something in those old photos that looks so familiar. [...]

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oh, and by the way, what the heck was Halley doing blogging at 9 pm last night? Must have been some sort of problem with her blogging software where all her early morning posts got stuck and came out at night instead

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I’m watching City of Angels, again. I don’t understand why but I am drawn to this movie. I like the Meg Ryan character and wish I had the magic she sees in Seth Plate, Nicolas Cage’s character. It’s such an interesting love story a doctor and an angel. An angel who is so inept at [...]

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Nina talks about the “unbearable lightness of parenting” Everyday is like this for me with my girls. And I don’t ever need anyone to remind me. It is impossibly heavy on your heart and soul trying to make every day be Christmas, to correct all the mistakes, to try and stop thinking about the fact [...]

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Christmas quilt.

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Christmas Decorations Chesley and I are getting our all the Christmas decorations. Christmas music is playing on the Stereo. Some of the songs have a sense of melancholy to them. As we go through the decorations we each silently play back old memories of Christmas past. Remembering doing these things with mom. Remembering the look [...]

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