Today is the Eighth Day of Christmas.  It is also New Year’s Day. I hope you’ve been having a wonderful start to this new year. As mentioned, it is the Eighth Day of Christmas.  We are still in the period of time known as Christmastide.  And so it is still the holidays, and I will [...]

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope all of you are having a blessed start to your new year. I didn’t see the ball drop in New York.  I woke up too late to turn the TV on and watch it.  Yes, folks, around here the ball drops at 8:00 a.m., and I was asleep.  I [...]

Today is New Year’s Eve.  We have a party at church tonight.  We’re going to have a church service and then a party.  I’m making brownies and cheesecake to take.  Before anybody thinks I’ve morphed into a good cook, they’re both from mixes.  That’s the only way I cook–the shorter time I spend in the [...]

Today is the Sixth Day of Christmas.  And it is also the day before the end of the year.  Although for some it is the second day of the year.  My husband, Jeremy, informed me that yesterday was the start of the Muslim New Year.  It is year 1430 AH (anno Hegirae:  “in the year [...]