A Cerney Periodical

  Oh my dear friends. I have battled Blogger all week, and for these mighty and many-pictures-coming from many different photographers, it is just a beast. So I have retooled for these big posts and am switching to adding just a link to my curated album. It has pluses and minuses. Blogger must be punishing me for making dumb comments all these years, so this is my attempt to troubleshoot. Oi oi. oi. To see the magic that was our fabulous family time in Nebraska for the final days of 2022, click on the picture or the link below! Click here to see the album and the good times! Much love and onward!

 Ho Ho the holidays! It happened. It was good. Here is Alice in area that is suggesting we are about to find a Christmas tree. As many of you know, during COVID, or Instagram or something, cutting-down-your-own-tree became a THING. As is, everyone was doing it. As in, there are no more big trees if you want to cut it yourself. So, we drove out to our cutty place, expecting to walk around, look at trees, then go to the their pre-cuts so we could find one from 8-10 feet. As usual, Brock wanted 10+, but after last year, Matt and I argue 10-. BUT, at Pinecrest, where we normally go, we were told we might find an 8-footer in the less than popular Norwegian Spruce. Why is it not popular? We don' know! We actually found one that was about 8.5 and BEAUTIFUL!    So we cut. Or, Matt cuts. Brock, helps carry, I take pictures, Alice referees. The tree train toots along. But one must also decorate that tree! The "shorter" tree was much easier for this. And what are the holiday...

Here we are at another year of ridiculous spookdum and all hallows tom-foolery. Knowing I had a heck of a crafting agenda, I started fairly early. The process of choosing of Halloween costumes evolves each year as the children continue to define themselves, and our relationships to each other. Matt and I still try to have our family all come together on a team costume, which mostly means we ask Brock what he wants to be, I determine if it is feasible, there is deliberation in the troops, followed finally by us trying to get Alice on board with whatever was decided. We try to make Alice the last step because she is a though one to reposition. Soooooooo, we came to the decision to go as fan favorites from Dungeons and Dragons. And it begins. I chose the "Beholder", an 11-eyed floating head. Let the Googling begin fine readers. Here is the Pygmalion birth of my masterpieces... And Brock has chosen a "Purple Worm". And Alice, a (yawn) unicorn. But a really cute one mind...