Noteworthy events occurring during holiday celebrations.
Understanding our own limitations as middle-aged adults, Laura and I had already planned a fairly laid-back New Year’s Eve. We would be celebrating at our place, and Jim, Lorraine, and Miranda along with Stephanie and Brian would come over for Chinese food and maybe a board or card game. Really exciting stuff. To ratchet up…
We have two weeks off this year for Christmas and New Year’s, and I thought I’d highlight some of the noteworthy events. We spent Christmas Eve at my parent’s house for the traditional Abbott gift exchange. Adhering to tradition, Scott and Katy were about two hours late. Since Stephen and Alex had to leave to go…
Thanksgiving break began today, and, following to family tradition, we planned to set up for Christmas on the first full day off. That meant that we would have to extract the tree and decorations from our tiny attic tonight. We were about to start the process when McKenna decided that she wanted to Facetime with…
Saturday was game day at Jim’s house, and the game of the day was A Study in Emerald. The site selling the game provides this description: The premise is simple, the year is 1881 and the ‘Old Ones’ have been ruling the earth for over seven hundred years. Although most of humanity has accepted these…
LEONARD, MI – Area man Alex Girard hosted a Christmas party for a collection of insane asylum inmates Saturday night. “They were great. It didn’t even matter to them that a Christmas was actually days ago,” Girard commented when contacted about the function. Predictably, the event was characterized by all kinds of, well, insanity. One…
It’s been a busy fall, spent watching various professional and college sports teams lose, coaching basketball, and teaching the youth of America. Now that I have some time off, I can provide an update about all of the important things that have happened this Christmas season. On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, Laura and I…
On Memorial Day, we headed over the bridge to Belle Isle in Richmond. The plan was to have a picnic and maybe take a walk or something. We brought food, drinks, and an extra outfit for McKenna. What did not bring was a bathing suit. Somehow we overlooked the fact that McKenna would be biologically…
Returning from Fredericksburg, we had a cookout at my brother Mark’s house, complete with grilled brats and burgers and young children terrorizing dogs. There was one odd exchange worth noting during the cookout. At one point, my mom indicated an artificial flower like the one here: Then, pointing at the flower, she said to my…
Poppy Inconceivably Almost Buys Ice Cream for One Child: Uncharacteristically, the Abbott get-together for Mother’s Day was peaceful. That peace and tranquility was wrecked by the cacophonous sound of… the Ice Cream Truck. I’m not sure how the Ice Cream Truck creates a sound that combines the vibe of a satanic message from a nursery…
We’ll have to make sure not to stay at any remote hotels in the middle of a blizzard.
