Every year, I donate two dozen custom cookies to the Soiree fundraiser at the girls’ elementary school. This year, the winner contacted me in late October about a December 19th delivery date. I hesitated at the date at first, but she was giving me so much advanced notice that I figured I could just plan…
Author: thirdstoryies
thanksgiving, in pictures
If you’ve been reading here for awhile, you probably know that each year our family makes the (long) road trip south to my grandmother’s farm for Thanksgiving. It’s the one time a year that we get to meet up with my father’s side of the family, and the visit is always worth the hours and…
projects, projects everywhere
We’re in the middle of reading Half Magic by Edward Eager to the little one. We are at the point in the story where the children have figured out that magic is indeed happening, but something appears to be slightly off. Wishes are being granted, but only by half. So now they are tasked with making…