Just about the time when most of us are taking down our Christmas trees and packing up our ornaments for next year, Armenia is ramping up for week of holiday festivities. In Armenia, Christmas falls on January 6th and Christmas Eve is celebrated the night before, January 5. This is because Armenians–for centuries–followed the Julian […]
New Year
What happened in 2013 stays in 2013
2013. Milestones I will always remember and losses I will never forget. Big Papa, Baby Bird and I celebrated one year as a family! Baby Bird started speaking in sentences and jumping with joy. Chickadees made a nest–and a family–in our birdhouse for the first time. Maggie Moose celebrated 18 years of kittenhood. My blog, […]
Kicking off 2012 with Pomegranate Spritzer
Big Papa and I kicked off 2012 with a bit of bubbly, a special creation I concocted to welcome the New Year. I filled our glasses half-way with Cava, topped them off with a semi-sweet pomegranate wine from Armenia that I picked up this past summer at our favorite wine shop, and floated a few […]
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
2010 ended with a bang. Mid-day we were greeted with a rather large adoption-related snafu, made by our very own government: critical paperwork that included our misspelled last name, an incorrect case number, and a random adoption agency (e.g. not our adoption agency). “It’s not the holidays for us if there isn’t some excitement,” Big […]