String o' Pearls

So, a number of years ago, I hosted a little St. Nicholas Tea Party here at our house in VA, for all the Pearl gals who were six and up at t...

We had a wonderful Christmas here in Virginia! We were celebrating with the families of the three boys who live nearby (as well as some in-l...

For years, I've been wanting to have keepsake blog books made.  In my early blogging days, I was printing off all my posts and putting t...

Last night we went to the most lovely Christmas party.  Our #3 son and his wife Preciosa rented out their friend’s coffee shop, and in a nod...

I woke up early this morning and was sitting in the living room, which was still dark except for the tree lights, drinking my coffee and thi...

Yesterday, we were supposed to go to a Christmas gingerbread house-making party at our second-oldest son's new home.  All the VA gang--s...

I just realized that I forgot to push the "publish" button on this post this morning.  Oops!  So I'm sending it out a tad late...

These days, it would be very easy for me to fall into a pit of despair over what is happening in our world.  I could sit paralyzed with fear...

I hadn't made the decision to revive this blog in time to do a lot of Christmas posting, so I thought that today I'd do a quick catc...