Over the River and Through the Woods...

Grandma's house always brings back memories of being ten years old. I don't remember many specifics (our family visited often), but I do remember the feelings of warmth and love, the good food (Grandma cooked, baked, and canned), digging in Grandpa's garden for fresh carrots and turnips, and the awe of roaming free in the hills and small streams surrounding Grandma's house with my cousins.

I also remember the tree house that Grandpa build for us grandkids. We spent hundreds of hours playing house, store, and hide-and-go-seek. Grandpa rebuilt this tree house a few times over the years (we grandkids loved it so much, we wore it out multiple times.) Our children now claim the tree house as their own when we visit.

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The Great Annual Birthday Gift Hunt

Please allow me to introduce you to a (first generation) Wright birthday tradition. Would you like a little history? When you have only one child, there's a tendency to spoil them, even by accident. I noticed this the first few Christmases after Aisling was born. While looking at our Christmas tree, I couldn't help but notice the "bare" space beneath it--the beautiful tree skirt was almost in full view except for a few brightly wrapped presents. Comparing this view to what we imagine a Christmas tree scene should look like (i.e. LOTS of presents and almost NO view of the tree skirt because of the overflowing amount of gifts-Have you watched any Christmas movies at all?) made me want to run to my nearest shopping center and buy things like a crazy woman on a shopping spree. Luckily, my good sense and logic won out, and I started looking for other more reasonable and viable alternatives. Does my child really need to have 20,001 gifts under the tree just so ...

25 Things

Okay...so I've been tagged several times on Facebook and I've been absent from the blogging world for almost a month. I'm really sorry. I'll play now, but I can't guarantee next week or even tomorrow. 1. When I'm feeling down, I hide-out in my home. No blogging, no talking to friends, very few calls to family, little to no socialization (only the most necessary interaction happens. i.e. church callings and/or when a very close friend realizes that I'm on a downward spiral and decides I need to get out of the house at all costs.) 2. While barricaded in my home, I tend to either read a lot of fiction (remember, I'm trying to "get away" from the real world) and/or start-continue-finish medium to big project(s) in an effort to boost my spirits. 3. For the last two to three weeks, I have taken apart the master bathroom, and now I'm attempting to put it back together. What does that entail? Removing the toilet, taking apart all of the cabinet d...

Fortunes

Trevor's: Pathetic! Whitni's: Prodding... Aisling's: Prophetic?

At home with the Wrights

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