Only have one kid, I haven't really established holiday traditions yet, but I found a list of some fun traditions that I might try in the years to come.
1.Put out a Christmas puzzle the first of December. Invite everyone who comes over to help complete in by Christmas Eve.
2. Eat at least two meals illuminated only by the lights on your Christmas Tree.
3. Call a nursing home or hospital and get the names of five people who don't often recieve mail or visitors. Send each one a beautiful Christmas card.
4. Take one evening, gather your family around your Christmas tree and tell your children about Christmas when you were a child.
5. Buy Christmas mugs for each member of your family.
6. Wrap your child's bedroom door with gift paper and a ribbon so it looks like a gift. Let them know that they are your favorite gift.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
From Us to You
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
What I have been up to
You may know that I have been addicted to photoshop for a very long time, and have spent much of the year practicing my photo-taking skills. I have been taking others pictures for free to get more experience. I know the picture below makes me sound like some totally legit pro-photographer, but it's just a website I created to show my work when I get referrals. I've been doing a few families lately, and others.
Next year, I am looking to get practice doing graduations pics, newborns, and possible engagements, so if you need one of those done, I will do it for free. you can click on the picture below and it will take you to my site. The photos above are of my most recent shoot.
I've also been doing a bit of reading......................
BOOK REVIEW
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society -by Mary Ann shaffer and Annie Barrows
I did enjoy this book, not an all-tim favorite, though. I like the clever way it is written, .....it is all letters, but still easy to follow the story. The story takes place during 1946(post WWII) on Geurnsey Island and helps you understand the effects of the World in places outside of Germany. It was interesting to see how this occupied island was effected. The story was nice, sort of predictable, although the author tried really hard to make you think otherwise, you still kind of figured it would end the way it did.
Sarah's Key-by Tatiana De Rosnay
I like this book more. It seemed to hold my attention better, in that I didn't want to put it down. It also had a clever writing pattern. Each chapter switched character. One Character being a 40-year old woman in modern day France, and then the next chapter would be about a young girl in France during WWII. Once again it was so interesting to hear how the war effected the people in France. It specifically describes the horror of the Velodrom d'Hiver in which hundreds of French Jews were rounded up by FRENCH police to suffer in a stadium for days and then continuing on to camps and some on to Aushwitz(sp?). I enjoyed the two overlapping, intertwining stories and I like the ending as well.
The author really stresses how nobody ever remembers this incident because the French tried to keep it locked up. Now there is a monument to remember these people, but for so long it was kind of a secret.
Next year, I am looking to get practice doing graduations pics, newborns, and possible engagements, so if you need one of those done, I will do it for free. you can click on the picture below and it will take you to my site. The photos above are of my most recent shoot.
I've also been doing a bit of reading......................
BOOK REVIEW
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society -by Mary Ann shaffer and Annie Barrows
I did enjoy this book, not an all-tim favorite, though. I like the clever way it is written, .....it is all letters, but still easy to follow the story. The story takes place during 1946(post WWII) on Geurnsey Island and helps you understand the effects of the World in places outside of Germany. It was interesting to see how this occupied island was effected. The story was nice, sort of predictable, although the author tried really hard to make you think otherwise, you still kind of figured it would end the way it did.Sarah's Key-by Tatiana De Rosnay
I like this book more. It seemed to hold my attention better, in that I didn't want to put it down. It also had a clever writing pattern. Each chapter switched character. One Character being a 40-year old woman in modern day France, and then the next chapter would be about a young girl in France during WWII. Once again it was so interesting to hear how the war effected the people in France. It specifically describes the horror of the Velodrom d'Hiver in which hundreds of French Jews were rounded up by FRENCH police to suffer in a stadium for days and then continuing on to camps and some on to Aushwitz(sp?). I enjoyed the two overlapping, intertwining stories and I like the ending as well.The author really stresses how nobody ever remembers this incident because the French tried to keep it locked up. Now there is a monument to remember these people, but for so long it was kind of a secret.
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