Day #5103 (Tue., Dec. 26, 2023) – Boxing Day

It’s Boxing Day today for those of you from the Bristish Iles and Commonwealth! My wife went to the Dollar Store with Katie and picked up a plastic container to store bread. It was such a great size that she asked me to pick up another one when I went out this afternoon (see photo…

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Day #5102 (Mon., Dec. 25, 2023) – Christmas Day

Merry Christmas everyone! It’s just going to be the immediate family this year. Arnesa and her kids are in the mountains of NC, and Dzenen is in Bosnia. Here’s a list of the various “major gifts” this year: Bobby received a retro video game player (see photo to the right) and a violin shirt. He…

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Day #5101 (Sun., Dec. 24, 2023) – Christmas Eve

My Advent Day #24 coffee flavor for today, (the last day of the Advent Calendar), was “Mint Mocha Coffee”.  We started to watch Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase this morning, but my wife and Katie could not take the stupid humor, so we turned it off 1/2 way through. I dropped off at Panera Bread…

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Day #5100 (Sat., Dec. 23, 2023) – Shopping At Aldi

Katie and I had both Daddy/Daughter Day #138 (Aldi for Christmas food shopping and Starbucks afterward) today! The kids each got a chocolate Santa (see photo to the left) that I picked up at Aldi the other day in their Advent Calendars this morning. Someone got into my wife’s chocolate Advent Calendar and it’s a…

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