Merry Christmas…time to rest!

Dec. 25: It is with a grateful sigh that Bryan and I are now resting in a mostly darkened living room after a multitude of holiday festivities.  The treelight glows, the kitty purrs, and all is quiet.  A nice way to end a couple fun, festive, and somewhat frantic days of holiday celebration.  New photos [...]



Dotzour family letter

For the second year, I sent out a letter with my Christmas cards.  Thought I would post it here as well.



Christmas activities

Dec. 18: Today is my dad’s birthday, and we celebrated by getting together for dinner at our place.  Mom made all the food and brought it over. I told her that I’m always happy to have a dinner party at my house when I don’t have to do a thing to get ready for it!  [...]



Lovely Christmas weekend

Dec. 10:  Ahhh, it’s Sunday and the end of a lovely weekend with my little and my big family.  On Friday (my day off), Mom, Dad, Andrew, and I went to Olbrich Gardens to see their model train exhibit.  It was really beautiful, and Andrew had a wonderful time. He couldn’t get enough of watching [...]



Fun with Christmas trees

Dec. 6: Andrew is thoroughly amused with our decision to bring a tree in to our living room.  For the first couple days after it came home, Andrew decided that the water at the base of the tree was his own personal splash pond.  Repeatedly pulling him back by his overall straps didn’t have much [...]



Phase I of website retrieval complete

Dec. 6: I am delighted to report that Ben has helped me retrieve our website from the now defunct server on which it previously lived.  All of my old posts including all Andrew’s early reports and all Mom’s health updates are now back.  Our photo gallery is not yet functional, and I think it will [...]