Coffee Conversations with a Purple Girl
Let’s be honest, friends, the best part of Christmas is the cookies. What other time of year is it acceptable to have upwards of twenty dozen cookies in your house? And they come in every imaginable variety. You could eat cookies for days and not have the same cookie twice. It’s a cookie persons greatest […]
Good morning, dear friends, I’ve just finished a weekend of parties which kicks off all the parties for the rest of the year. The thing about having friends and being involved in things and having a job, I guess, is that you get people want to celebrate Christmas in those groups and so they throw […]
Oh hello there, I’m just sitting here enjoying my tree which is sheltering all the gifts we’ve gotten so far. For people, not that we’ve received. That’s totally different. Anyway, It’s delightful to have an under-tree full of gifts, partially because it keeps my cats from running rampant under the tree skirt, but mostly because […]
Good morning friends. I was going to try and write about wrapping presents today, but I haven’t actually wrapped any presents yet. Scratch that, I’ve wrapped one present, but that was super early because my best friend was in town for Thanksgiving, but wouldn’t be in town for Christmas so I wanted to give her […]
When I was growing up we always had a real Christmas tree. Every year we went out to a farm, or stopped by one of the little groves that popped up or one of the stores and picked out a tree. It was a lot of fun, especially when we cut down our own. Christmas […]
We got our first Christmas card the other day. I haven’t put it up yet because I haven’t decided where it should go. I’m thinking maybe over the fireplace. I also need to dig out my sticky tack ball that Twirls imparted to me after graduation. And by imparted I mean she left it behind […]
Every year my in-laws make a Christmas trip into Pittsburgh. I don’t know how long they’ve been doing this, but it’s been at least as long as I’ve known them. There’s a little Christmas village in Market Square that they go to look through and a list of other Christmasy things to see and do each […]
Growing up we watched a lot of Christmas specials, but not so many Christmas movies. There is a very clear distinction between the two, you know. A Christmas movie is a full length film with a Christmas theme. A Christmas special is short, made for TV, and often part of something bigger. The Charlie Brown […]
Welcome, dear friends, to this years Christmas series! It is very gloomily raining outside and not feeling very Christmasy at all, but we’ll make the best of it, as you do in Western PA, where it could snow on Thanksgiving and rain on Christmas and then Snow on Easter, just because. It really is very […]
Guys, guys, guys! Christmas is two days away! Tomorrow is Christmas eve and the celebrations begin! My husband and I will be opening presents tomorrow morning, enjoying half a day to ourselves, and then heading up to begin celebrating with my mom’s side of the family for the evening. Friday we’ll go over early to […]