Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
So it’s the end of the year, the last hour of 2012. New Year’s Eve has never been my favorite holiday; it always seems anticlimactic. I like New Year’s Day, because we almost always go to the beach, like my parents and grandparents did most years. But I do like year-in-review summaries, so here goes….
Subject: Baby Jesus Lost: a week ago Tuesday by one Captain Goodbaby Found: tonight, Thursday, by Sunshine State Diaries Search and Rescue Team, under the bookcase This afternoon I’d googled ‘little people replacement Baby Jesus’ and was amused by the first advertisement: ‘buy Baby Jesus now and SAVE!’ Ha ha. Suckers! I found Baby Jesus…
Pensacola Downtown Christmas Parade, 2012 HT-28 Party with Kristin I’m impressed every time we see the Downtown Pensacola Christmas Parade. It’s always more than I expected or remembered. Chris and I watched about half an hour of bead-flinging and merriment before heading a couple miles north to the HT-28 Squadron Christmas Party, which was a…
Last week, the day the baby nativity became his favorite toy! The chat with the doctor at Sacred Heart’s children’s cardiology unit keeps playing through my head on repeat. Irregular aorta…potential high blood pressure to his brain…possibly stressing his kidneys…see this in infants who’ll need surgery before three weeks old to live…strongly recommend a CAT…
Three weeks ’til Christmas…
Nobody told me I was walking to THIS GUY! Nothing can keep this kid from walking now! Chris and I Captain Goodbaby was really excited to see a certain VIP fly into the Training Wing Five Family Christmas Party — that’s right, Santa rides in a helicopter! That guy really knows how to make an…
Around the neighborhood, lining the supermarket parking lot, and nestled between live oaks, crimson and yellow leaves—way more than I remember seeing here before—have attained their richest shades and are now curling up, brown and crunchy, underfoot. We’ve had several days of cloudy, breezy, exciting, Christmasy weather, despite the fact that we were wearing short…
