by Jennifer Zinck | 13 December 2011 | Advent
Each year around 5pm on Christmas Day we went to Aunt Bobbie’s house, which was about five miles from our house. It wasn’t far, but it’s the only travel we did for Christmas. Aunt Bobbie, my paternal grandmother’s sister, was one of the...
by Jennifer Zinck | 12 December 2011 | Advent
I got up this morning with the intention of writing my blog post first thing. That is, until I saw the topic. That reminded me that I had a flyer due today before Roundtable. What is Roundtable, you ask? Roundtable is a monthly meeting for Cub Scout Leaders. I am...
by Jennifer Zinck | 11 December 2011 | Advent
Growing up in a small suburban town with a fairly large Jewish population, I had the opportunity to learn a bit about some other customs. In school, it was not uncommon to sing the dreidel song, play dreidel, and learn about the menorah. Sadly, political correctness...
by Jennifer Zinck | 10 December 2011 | Advent
Every year my mom used to take my sister and I to the mall and give us a little bit of money to pick out gifts for her and our grandparents. We had a lot of fun selecting just the right gift for each one. While the gifts were usually small, dust-collecting trinkets,...
by Jennifer Zinck | 09 December 2011 | Advent
As we’ve already discussed, things have been changing and Santa has been modernizing some of the ways that he handles things. One of these new programs includes the implementation of an army of spies dubbed Elf on the Shelf. These little elves arrive at some...
