Or: “Other Decorations” “Other decorations”: not tree decorations or outside decorations, but simply other decorations we put up in our hou...

Did cookies play a role in our holiday foods? This is a real mystery to me – both the answer to the question and the fact that I really cann...

... that you can get one of these cute little guys (aka "USB Hubman") FREE with any gift card from Best Buy (I am not associated w...

Did you believe in Santa? Boy, howdy, did I ever. I was a faithful – and I do mean faithful – follower of Santa. He did not always bring ...

Going through my extensive list of links for Texas genealogy in my efforts to add links to this blog was instructive. There were many broke...

Above is the Christmas card my family and I sent out in 2009.  My mother did send out Christmas cards, and we displayed the ones we received...

[Reposted from 2009 with an update.] There have been several Advent Calendar posts by GeneaBloggers in which they describe their obsession w...

This Week in Genea-Blogging Want to have nightmares tonight … and probably for many nights to come? Read Michael John Neill’s “Cleaning Mot...