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Santaland
It wouldn’t be a first Christmas without a visit to Santa. So we went to Macy’s, because when you want to see Santa you go to Santaland. The line wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, we waited...
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Monkeying Around
With matching hats of course we had to get some pictures. Here we are at Bryant Park. Don’t worry it was a really warm night. P.S. Simon has outgrown that shirt in the past week…
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Christmas Card
If you are very good I might to a behind the magic post for the technologically challenged.
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Grinch
I can’t believe it’s Christmas Eve. I’m so not mentally ready. Physically we’ve been prepping. We have a tree. I made stockings. Oh, I am glad I made the stockings. I had a little procrastination on...
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Merry Christmas
God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; Along the hills of Galilee the white flockes sleeping lay, When Christ, the Child of...
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Chirstmas Recap in Photos
This year we did a technological Christmas and Skyped with various family members throughout the day on The 24th and 25th. The kid loves screens, so it actually kind of works. Simon is too little to...
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The Christmas Card #Fail
**Giveaway at the end So Christmas seems a way off. And it is. Halloween and Thanksgiving come first and they will get their due attention. But Christmas involves planning and travel and mailing and...
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Santaland at Macy’s – year 2
Last year was Simon’s first Christmas and I thought he was oh so big. Looking at the pictures now – he was such a baby. But the thing about kids is they grow. He enjoyed his first visit with Santa,...
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Holiday Review
I usually do a series of posts after the holidays, but this year I just don’t have the energy. So instead I provide this one picture heavy (with only the most basic of editing) post. Simon and I left...
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Holiday Train Show
This is from a few weeks ago. We went to the Bronx Botanical Garden to see the Holiday Train Show. It was…underwhelming. We’ve heard so many great things about it. Everyone says THE KIDS WILL LOVE IT!...
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Santaland: 2013
Saturday we braved the snow and the crowds for our annual trek (see 2011 and 2012) to see Santa at Macy’s. We’d planned to go on Tuesday evening – as weekdays are less crowded and our favorite Santa...
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Christmas 2013
I totally unplugged this Christmas. It was awesome. I did a little Instagramming and checked in on Twitter or Facebook before sleeping, but I didn’t turn on my computer for three days. Simon came down...
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As we do every year we went to Macy’s to see who I consider the “real” Santa. Simon is an old pro, this being his fourth! visit. It was funny though how he was so excited in the line, posing and...
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Because we didn’t want to cart a bunch of presents to Indiana only to bring them all back we opened family presents early. At first we were going to do it the night before we left, but what’s the fun...
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Indiana Christmas: Madison
This was our year for an Indiana Christmas and we were fortunate that we were able to spend nearly 2 days at my brother’s house. All six of us (three sibs plus spouses) aren’t together very often and...
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Indiana Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve has always been spent with my Mom’s family. This year there were 18 of us – and we even got some good pictures! But before the festivus began (of which there are almost no pictures) we...
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And Christmas morning was pretty magical. Simon was SOOOOO excited. Click to view slideshow.
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Tree Time
Another tradition we have is visiting the tree at Rockefeller Center. One of my favorite pictures ever of Rob and Simon is Simon’s first visit. We were going to get a picture with “two boys” as Simon...
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#microblogmondays Final Festivus
Sunday we had our final Christmas with Val and Josh. I made rolls and we had sandwiches. And presents of course. Simon schooled Grandma in his new game of Candy Land. Then some family Mario Kart.
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