by Gregory Smallwood | Dec 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Our family Christmas gathering is very informal – usually Mom and Dad are headed back to Arizona within a day or two, so we eat up the leftovers from Christmas Eve Eve, play games, and visit. This year, I introduced them to two games I first experienced on my...
by Gregory Smallwood | Dec 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
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...
by Gregory Smallwood | Dec 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
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...
by Gregory Smallwood | Dec 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
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...
by Gregory Smallwood | Dec 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
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...
by Gregory Smallwood | Dec 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
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...
