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Tomorrow I am going to be leaving my family for a 4-day work conference in Chicago. My company is putting on this conference and I am in charge of most of it. You would think that I would be totally stressed out right now. Eh, not so much. You would think that I would be [...]
We have all of the “Very Special Christmas” CD’s and there is a classic song on the first one that makes me think about how another year has flown by. It also makes me think about all the time I spent worrying about a bunch of “stuff” that in the big picture of life is [...]
There’s no way around it. We spent a lot of money on Christmas. I’m already getting the bills and I’m afraid to open them. The funny thing is that the gifts that were the biggest hits were the ones that didn’t cost much money, but that I put a lot of time and effort and [...]
Here we are again already, two days before Christmas. Time for all the last-minute panicking to set in, time for all the last-minute purchases we forgot to make, time for the all the frenzy of where-did-I-hide-that-gift. I hope someone got ahead on their baking, because I certainly didn’t. It’s cool, though, it’s cool, I like [...]
I’ve mentioned before that we do not honor the tradition of Santa Claus within our home. Though I find the trend to be catching on more and more every year I’ve been berated, my children have been felt sorry for, we’ve been called “selfish” and “unfit” parents. I’m used to all of that though, I [...]
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