Mother’s day was great, my mom came over and spent the day with us. We laughed and played with the kids and ate some good food. I don’t know how I got this lucky, but my mom brought some fillet mignon for me took cook up on the grill. I had never cooked a fillet before, [...]
Christmas day got off to a slow start. Alina and I cooked and put together a lot of food for our friends and family that we thought were going to show up about noon, but by 2:30, Alina and I began to think that we were going to have a huge dinner by ourselves. But [...]
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Growing up I never would have called my family privileged. We didn’t have the house or car, the TV or the toys that so many of our friends had that seemed to make them so happy. We never had a room full of presents requiring our Christmas tree to be hung from the [...]
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Jesus is not the reason for the holiday season,
‘Cause each holiday has its own reason.
Jesus is the reason for Christmas,
Commercialism is the reason for the season.
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Every year around Christmas time I hear the same old carols that people have been singing for decades. And it seems that, earlier and earlier, each year, all of our music stations and the mall and gas station speakers, and just about everywhere else you go that has the ability to make music, makes [...]
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I’m not one who cares much for Halloween, and haven’t since I was the too-old-to-be-trick-or-treating-kid, but I’ve got to say that I have seen some really creative costumes posted online during my daily travels through the internet. Below is the video of my hands down favorite costume of all time. To understand it [...]
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Between all o’ t’ birthdays, anniversaries, and national holidays that we’ve got t’ remember, we can’t forget about some o’ t’ more important international holidays. Like, today. Septemeber 19 be International Talk Like a Pirate day.
So, when you be at work or school today, make aye t’ answer t’ phone or talk t’ your buckos [...]
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Last night we went to the Frisco Freedom Festival to celebrate the 4th of July. Well, more accurately, we went and left. After finding out that the “Taste of Frisco” was free, I thought to myself that free food would be a great way to celebrate the 4th, but it wasn’t free. It was free [...]
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It takes a special woman to be called Mother. It’s not just someone who is there when it’s Convenient , or someone you may hear from once every few months. A mother is a person with grace, someone who loves you and someone you can call a friend. Well I have two mother’s that I can [...]
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Not only did our friends get here last week and have to get moved and settled in, but Alina’s parents also came out for Christmas. It was pretty fun, (my favorite part was mine and Kris’ win at Trivial Pursuit (and no, there weren’t only 5 original colonies, there were 13)). We did the whole [...]