Yearly Archives: 2011

Over the holiday, my mother lent me her prized hardcover copy of Period Piece by Gwen Raverat. It’s a lovely, lovely book. Gwen recalls her Victorian childhood in Cambridge with her father, one of Charles Darwin’s sons, and an American mother. It’s illustrated with engravings of Cambridge and full of stories of eccentric, hypochondriac relatives.…

My aunt gave both my sister and I embossed Christmas memory books this year. The journals have five pages of calligraphy-decorated pages to fill for 20 years of Christmas seasons. There’s even a space for your annual holiday card photo. Documenting this first year while taking down the tree already felt like a tradition! Mystic…

It started raining on the way up to Tahoe…the first signs of a big storm coming to the valley.There wasn’t a snowflake on the road when we checked into our first hotel, the Cal Neva. But Wednesday morning, we found our poor little car buried: This was the first of many snow+car related adventures for…

Wow…did I ever become addicted to this game over the holidays. My aunt from Chicago brought Banagrams with her for the break. You get 13 scrabble tiles to be assembled into words. If someone gets stumped, everyone has to draw two more tiles. First person to use all their letters wins! It’s quick and fun.

What a nice Christmas! This year’s holiday was a smash hit – nary a glitch despite being a packed house. Rob and I arrived down in San Luis Obispo late Thursday night and joined up with the family on Friday morning. Some much needed Christmas Eve laziness, plus a hike to the top of Bishop’s…

Rob and I are back home after the long holiday break. We had such a great time with family down in San Luis Obispo and then with lots and lots of snow at Lake Tahoe! Recap is coming tomorrow, after we wrap up the Comments for Cans drive. As of 7:00 last night, there were…