I was able to spend most of the day helping to decorate my parents tree and house. It was great and we had a wonderful time going over the stories about the different orniments while my mother played the keyboard, filling the house with music. After collecting orniments not only my whole life, but from before my birth, my parents own quite a collection. I imagine they could cover a…

Holiday decorations get more and more complicated. A strand of lights, now has more bulbs, webbing, extra wires and more capacity to become tangled. The labor saving storage does not prevent human error, broken or twisted wires or pieces lost in a move. Dealing with all of those challenges is part of the joy of the holidays. Sentimental orniments is the standard in my family, no uniform glass balls or…

If you have never been to Goodreads.com it is an excellent place to check out a book and decide if you want to read it. You can go through many reviews by other readers, author biographies and they have lots of information. I personally don’t count how many pages I have read of a book, usually disappointed when I whizzed through it, but some people enjoy that kind of reading…