Before you roll your eyes and start making door-stopper jokes, listen up. The fruitcake comes from very impressive beginnings. Did you know that the origins of the Fruitcake date back to Roman times and it is considered to be the first power food? Source Move over acai berries! That's right, the fruitcake was used to …
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Christmas Around Our House
Deck the Halls December is my favorite month of the year. It is filled with hope and promise and generosity in ways that far exceed commercial adaptations. It is when we express our love for one another in ways that range from simple and heartfelt to extraordinary and excessive. Our circumstances may have changed (lingering …
Giving Thanks – November Recap
Fair warning, this is going to be a long and photo-intensive post. I had planned to break it into two separate posts, but time got away from me and I didn't pull it together in time. Personally, I think that is a good thing since getting caught up in living is generally healthier than having …
For the Love of Easter
We have been a bit overwhelmed with the work of selling our tiny condo and helping our daughter relocate back to Miami to a larger place after living with us this past year, so we didn't have our usual Easter celebration. Typically, Malcolm's mom would dye eggs with red onion skins (they look just like …
A Not so Traditional, Traditional Thanksgiving
Family traditions are important to us, and we have a few, from carving the same pumpkin face year after year at Halloween, to dressing up for Christmas dinner and taking the annual family photo. Traditions bond families, and mark the passage of time in ways that our memories seem to favor. On November 28th, we …
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