Advent Calendars for All Ages – Christmas 2019

I have a deep, nostalgic, secular love of advent calendars. Typically my kids each get a chocolate calendar from IKEA and I get a paper one for myself (!) and my nieces. Then we have a fabric countdown calendar with felt ornaments that I sequinned and beaded by hand when I was in high school, … [Read more…]
A Little Road Trip to Wichita, Kansas

Are you a road-tripper? When my dad got a job at Rocky Flats in Colorado in the 1980’s, he and my mom loaded us up in the van and we drove out from Michigan – the road trip that started it all. Back in those days, my parents drove through the night to save hotel … [Read more…]