Tag Archives: holidays

The Tree

By Erin | Published: December 2, 2011

We haven’t put up our Christmas tree this year, and I’m itching to do so. Normally, we’ve got the place decked out right after Thanksgiving, but we’re a little late this year. So until we get to our tree (this weekend, I hope!), here’s the Bond family putting up our tree three years ago–can you [...]

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Thanksgiving

By Erin | Published: November 29, 2011

We spent this Thanksgiving with Jesse’s family in Florida. We’d originally planned to be in Charlotte with my family but after getting Jesse’s dad’s diagnosis, we quickly changed our plans. But even though we wished we were there under different circumstances, we did enjoy ourselves quite a bit. Thanksgiving day was spent at Jesse’s aunt’s [...]

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Labor Day

By Erin | Published: September 5, 2011

Labor Day weekend: My family attends the 50th Seabolt Family Reunion in a church activity building at the mouth of the hollow where my grandparents used to live in a house my grandfather and his brothers built the year my dad and his twin brother were born. I sit on my couch, 455 miles away, [...]

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Balance

By Erin | Published: April 29, 2011

Yesterday, I got a package in the mail from a company in Utah that sells therapeutic-grade essential oils. Since I had not ordered any therapeutic-grade essential oils–or any essential oils, for that matter–I was quite confused. My birthday was coming up, but there wasn’t any note about who might have sent the package; inside the [...]

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Holiday Sights

By Erin | Published: December 28, 2010

We spent the holidays in Florida, where we saw: Disney… Presents… Strange, old records in thrift stores… Nature… My grandmother… My mom… My dad… My dad catching an armadillo… Jesse’s family… Holiday decorations… And lots and lots of food… What a lovely holiday.

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