Sweet Hymns Of Joy In Grateful Chorus Raise We Merry Christmas! I hope y’all have had as much fun with this as I have.  I will certainly be turning this into an annual tradition.  Next year I will definitely be roping Anita & Sydney into helping out too so y’all won’t have to put up […]

Sweetly Singing O’er The Plains Merry Christmas Eve faithful readers!  Being away from family at Christmas has never been easy.  As such, we’ve always done what we can to incorporate all of our adopted family members into Christmas celebrations.  A hallmark of expat life is that our extended family changes quite often.  We’ve been blessed […]

It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year We’ve been busy today!  We have made all of the Christmas cookies and frosting is underway.  I have to pack up the brittle.  After that, I have to shape the cheese balls into awesomely Christmasy pine cones.  The pigs-in-a-blanket wreath is ready for the oven.  I’m making […]

All Is Calm, All Is Bright In what is obviously an unspoken display of solidarity Mimi, Aunt Sissy, and Uncle Mark have decided to spend Christmas in the nearest desert they could find.  Vegas baby!  They flew out yesterday and everyone made it just fine.  Mimi immediately started opening boxes that were not for her. […]

I Won’t Ask For Much This Christmas, I Won’t Even Wish For Snow Merry Christmas faithful readers!  I tried to hold out but just couldn’t do it.  I know that everyone and their brother’s dog must’ve seen this by now but it brings a Christmas smile to my face every time I watch it.  I’m […]

Sing Choirs Of Angels Four days and a wake-up folks! Anita has been baking Christmas cookies all day. Mimi, Aunt Sissy, and Uncle Mark are on their way out to Vegas. And you better call Guinness because it was almost cold enough to not wear shorts here today! Christmas is all around! We’re actually cutting […]

May Your Days Be Merry And Bright We’re down to less than a week of wake-ups! So excited. Even more excited about Sydney asking to go see Rouge One again! Early Christmas present – LOVE it! The mail is still arriving and we’re down to only two more packages for Sydney and a box from […]

Christmas, Christmas Time Is Here, And Christmas Songs You Love To Hear It’s a very merry Christmas in Kuwait y’all! Well technically advent, but you know what I mean.  I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season this year. We’re getting down to the wire folks – only a week away now.  I’ve been muttering […]

A Merry Christmas To You All And A Happy Bonne Année-o I am one with the Force. The Force is with me. All I can say is Rouge One was AWESOME!  If I may quote my young padawan – “best Star Wars movie out of them all.”  So yeah, we went to see it.  It […]