String o' Pearls

Last Sunday, we had a family get-together to celebrate the late January/early February birthdays in the Pearl family.  Son #5 turned 29 in J...

Those of you who've been following along here for a long time (hi, my handful of faithful readers!), or those who might have only stumbl...

Forty-one years ago today, my husband and I were married on a bitter cold day in our hometown in Upstate NY, at his family's parish chur...

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...

This year, my husband and I joined forces in Santa's workshop to create large wooden St. Nicholas figurines—five of them, one for each o...

Back when our boys were growing up in NH, it was our tradition for a number of years to go to a local Christmas tree farm to cut down our tr...

I mentioned in a post a while back that I was planning to have a holiday tea party for my four VA daughters-in-law and my five oldest grand...