Coffee Conversations with a Purple Girl
Good morning, friends! It is finally, officially, the Christmas season! My husband insisted that we wait until December proper to start decorating, so I’m not exactly surrounded by holiday spirit, yet, but we’ll get there. This week I have plans to put up the tree and pull out the wreath and maybe even put batteries […]
Good morning, dear friends! Yesterday was a strangely well remembered minor holiday! It was Groundhog’s day, and in case you missed it, Phil did see his shadow and there will be six more weeks of winter… or, you know, a week of winter followed by a thaw and then another maybe half week of coldish […]
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 […]
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 […]
We have finally reached October, my friends! October is the fallest you ever get around here. The leaves are finally actually starting to change colors, the air is cool, but not cold yet and the first of the big Holidays approaches at it’s end. October has been thoroughly taken over by Halloween in main stream […]
Probably the biggest tradition we have in my family is the list of Christmas cookies that my dad makes every year. The list is pretty impressive, including at least six different kinds of cookies made in triple batches to be shared on cookie trays all through the holiday season, and then to be stored in […]