Last night was Christmas Cookie Night – one of our oldest family traditions.  For the uninitiated, Christmas was very hectic when Blake and I were little – Christmas Eve was spent with our dad’s family, and Christmas Day with our mom’s.  So “Christmas Eve...

Yesterday was “Carry-In Day” at the store – the regulars who frequent our Wednesday/Saturday Make & Takes brought in lots and lots of food and shared it in “Marco’s Too” next door to our store.  Thankfully, they share with us, too . . .   And nobody went...

I had every reason to believe that the news would be good, and honestly not a single reason to believe that it wouldn’t – and still I had trouble sleeping last night.  There is always that tiny bit of doubt.  But it wasn’t just me – Mom’s blood pressure was...

I got a call at the mail center last week from Barry Payne – he is working at our store a couple of days a week (he might as well – he knows the place better than most of us) – and he said he had something he needed to show me if I could stop by on a day when he was...

Last Wednesday, Ginger Deaton did a make & take project in our classroom to show off the new Tim Holtz poinsettia die.  This was during the period where I was practically living at the store gathering orders from the Thanksgiving Weekend Sale.  About...

It has been two weeks since I last sat down to exercise my typing fingers.  It’s not that I didn’t have anything to say.  It’s more that I had more important things to do – namely filling your orders.  We got absolutely swamped with orders during our...

Last Friday and Saturday, we had our annual “Make Your Own Coupon” sale in our store – and we offered prizes for the best and/or most creative entries.  All of the entries were attached to a display board, so when the judges (and I was not one of them) made their...

Nala had her stitches removed yesterday, so the protective collar is no longer necessary.  And she is very happy.  So we felt it was only fair to share her joy with you – since we shared her pain last week.  I hope you all have a very Happy...

I hope you will share our new cat’s pain (literally and figuratively).  I shot this video with my cell phone on Monday, shortly after she started picking at her stitches and had to be fitted with a protective collar (the whining in the background is Zoe, who was...

When I looked at my e-mail on Saturday morning, I found one from Ginger Deaton reminding me that Sunday was Karen’s birthday.  That one has always been easy for me to remember since November 11 is also Veterans’ Day.  But the e-mail also informed me that...