by Jennifer Zinck | 19 December 2011 | Advent
Since I already talked about Christmas shopping for the “gifts” prompt, I think I’ll take this opportunity for something a little bit different. I want to say what a great husband I have. Not only is he a great bargain shopper, but he loves to try...
by Jennifer Zinck | 18 December 2011 | Advent
Filled with excitement, we ran to the living room. “Santa came! Santa came!” we shouted. Grandma stepped in from her post in the kitchen. “You can open your stockings until everyone else gets up,” she told my sister and I, as she did every...
by Jennifer Zinck | 17 December 2011 | Advent
Today, like every Christmas that I can remember, I had dinner with my cousins. Last year we decided that we would get together the Saturday before Christmas since I live farther away now. I have three cousins on my maternal side and two of them have two children, a...
by Jennifer Zinck | 16 December 2011 | Advent
When I was little the party at school was much like what my children experience today, with a few exceptions. None of my children has ever participated in a grab bag at school, which I think is a bit unfortunate. (My boys have, however, gotten to do them at Cub...
by Jennifer Zinck | 15 December 2011 | Advent
Happy Anniversary to Addie May Collier and Joseph Brophy! Addie and Joe were married on December 14, 1916 in West Haven, Connecticut. What a guy Joe must have been to marry a woman who had four living minor children and an ex-husband! My grandmother often talked...
by Jennifer Zinck | 14 December 2011 | Advent
Fruitcake, friend or foe? This I wouldn’t know. It was never in our house when I was small. I’ve never eaten it at all. I’ve never been the recipient of this peculiar holiday fare. I think that’s...
