A Corner Table in My World

Today Heli Dad and I celebrate 18 years as a couple – 12 of them married. We were very particular about the date of our wedding while we were planning. We gave a variety of reasons for it but at the core of our thinking was simply that we wanted to become a married couple on the same day that we became a couple. We were tremendously lucky in that we were also able to get married at the place where we met, spent a couple weeks getting to know one another, and where we decided that despite the distance that would be between us (we were teenagers living in different towns about an hour away from the other) we wanted to be together. I won’t say that our lives together have been nothing but good – we, like all couples, have had our issues. There have been ups and downs but through it all we’ve stuck together and done our best to remember why we wanted to be together in the first place. I’m lucky to say that I married my best friend. 12 years after the wedding, he’s still my best fr...

With one thing or another I never did get around to sharing any of our Christmas shenanigans after the New Year. Well for the most part they were pretty much what we’ve come to expect and experience over the last several years – 4+ different days of Christmas dinners, family time, gift giving, game playing, catching up and having fun. As I’ve mentioned in previous years, as our extended families have grown larger and spread further afield, our Christmas celebrations have become larger, longer affairs that simply can’t be accomplished in one day. So here’s a brief breakdown of all this years celebrations’ parts… 

It occurred to me while I was trying to write a post recently – one that included most, if not all, of our (still growing) immediate family on both sides, that there are now quite a lot of us AND when telling stories it can get very confusing to follow precisely who is involved. So I decided it might be worthwhile to write up something of a list of common “characters” that I talk about: family members mostly just from the immediate family. Here we go… The Corner Table Family Writer Mom (me) & Heli Dad (my hubs) Kids: Princess, Gamer Boy & Angel Face Pets: Sphinx & Jude (cats) Writer Mom’s Family Grandma and Grandpa (my parents) Pets: various cats on The Farm Big Sister and Bro (my older sister & her hubs) Kids: Big Babe, HG & Genie Pet: Rufus (dog) Little Sister and Boyfriend (my younger sister & her boyfriend) Pet: Juno (dog) Heli Dad’s Family Grams (his mom) ...