Posts from ‘December, 2008’

Anyone who has children knows that the place of honor in the home is the refrigerator. This is where the important notes, the good report cards, and the special artwork and photos go. It’s like a personal home art gallery. At Christmas time, the photocards get a place of honor on our fridge. Here is [...]

Below are a few Christmas Photos. There are more on Flickr. Here is Eric opening a gift. I love watching him open presents. This is very hard work for him, but he is very determined and will keep at it until he gets it open. Like many young children, he used to just like ripping [...]

Here is our traditional holiday photo of the boys. It came out nice this year. I used a green screen with a background I found on the web. We will be staying home for Christmas. Santa will be coming tonight, because Rich has to work tomorrow. We will tell Eric that Santa does our house [...]

…some days are stone. Eric has been behaving pretty well lately, so we decided to try taking him to “High School Musical 2″, which was playing at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, MA. He loves music, so this is something we thought he might like. The show time was 7:30pm and the drive [...]

It literally snowed all weekend, we got about a foot of snow. It looks like the roads are fairly clear this morning and the boys all have school (at least as of 5:30am). I got the twins outside yesterday for a bit of winter fun. Below are a couple of photos. My poor sister and [...]

Now that Barack Obama has been elected, The political action group MoveOn.org asked it’s 5 million members what the organizations next priority should be for 2009. Members were asked to pick their top three most important issues. My top 3 were: 1. Universal health care 2. Build a green economy, stop climate change 3. Improve [...]

Two of a kind… I can’t believe Christmas is just a few days away.  I manage to get all of my Christmas shopping done without entering a single store.  The UPS man and I are on a first name basis. It looks like we are in for another storm today.  The snow is supposed to [...]

Eric is taking chorus in high school.  I’m not quite sure how he got into this class, probably the same way he got into Spanish class in middle school.  But he enjoys Spanish and likes chorus too. Tonight was the Winter Concert at the high school.  I worry about this type of event, because you [...]

New England shivers without power after ice storm (CNN) — At least 800,000 customers in New England are still without electricity on Sunday after an ice storm ravaged the region, officials say. President Bush has authorized federal aid by declaring a state of emergency in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Full Story There is devastation all [...]

A severe ice storm prompted President Bush to declare Saturday that a state of emergency exists in northern Massachusetts, a move that authorizes the use of federal aid to help the recovery effort. Gov. Deval Patrick declared a statewide state of emergency on Friday in response to the storm, which struck Thursday and continued into [...]