Well we are making some progress in getting everything put away around here. We weeded Mark’s toys down from four storage containers to one (and one for Oliver) which gave him some extra space. Part of that space was eaten up by him getting his first computer of his own. It’s offline for now as [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
Christmas Eve Live Blog
6:15 a.m. :: I hate early mornings. 6:30 a.m. :: Mark is up and showered and ready to go to work with me this morning. Rambling Dave just played Six White Boomers on C95. 7:10 a.m. :: Lineup at Tim Horton’s was too long so I skipped that place and went straight to work. Stopped [...]
Christmas at the Centre
Well Christmas at the Salvation Army Community Centre in Saskatoon is just about finished. Most of it isn’t my department so I get to avoid the stress of the season while at the same time as a manager, I get to help out when asked. Everyone is always amazed at how busy we are at [...]
Salvation Army Annual Christmas Dinner Photos
For those of you who are interested, here are some of the photos from the Salvation Army Community Christmas Dinner. It’s a free Christmas dinner and evening for about 1000 people. This year we had a little less but the night was different then usual and it was at a new location. We expect a [...]
Christmas Gift Guide for the Road Warrior
I don’t travel very much anymore but the routine of leaving home, boarding planes, bad coffee, bad sleep, and doing it all over again had me thinking about the best tools for the road warriors on your Christmas shopping list. If this list doesn’t do anything for you, feel free to check out my other [...]
Christmas Gift Guide: Gifts for Really Smart People
You need a gift for someone smart, someone who wants to know about everything – what happened, how it works, why it all got started. Fortunately, the globally curious have a lot of hobbies which makes them kind of easy to shop for, even if you don’t always remember to sleep and eat. Below are [...]
Christmas with Reimers
We spent an early Christmas dinner with the Reimers and Kristy before the the Reimers head south to California for Christmas with their kids. It’s our family Christmas dinner and it is a really nice evening. The food is always good and during dinner I was having my second helping of a bean and mushroom [...]
Christmas Gift Guide for the Homeless
This one is pretty close to my heart. At work I get to buy the Christmas gifts for the guys at the Salvation Army Community Centre and I have a lot of fun doing it. Last year I got them nice duffle bags and a watch/wallet gift set. We also got a big donation of [...]
Christmas Gifts Ideas for Boys Under Two Year of Age
Who would have thought that Oliver would be so hard to shop for. I don’t remember Mark being so hard to shop for when he was a year and a half but then I realized that so many things I wanted to get Oliver are still sitting in storage because we already bought them for [...]
Christmas 2009
For us the Christmas season officially started last night with the start of Salvation Army Christmas Kettle season. A couple of years ago I was asked if I could help out picking up Christmas kettles and bringing them in to be counted and deposited at night. I asked what night was needed the most and [...]
2009 Christmas Gift Ideas
Since many of you are starting your Christmas shopping today (they call it Black Friday for a reason), I thought I would post together my Christmas gift ideas here and hopefully you find what you are looking for. Good luck out there, you are going to need it. Christmas Gift Guide for the Outdoorsman (and [...]
Christmas Gift Guide: The Outdoorsman
In case you are shopping for the great outdoorsman, here are a list of suggestions for those who often prefer to outdoors rather than inside. Check out the Christmas gift ideas category if you are looking for other Christmas Gift Guides. Straight from the Leftorium, the MEC Left Handed Slingpack. Wendy has had a slingpack [...]
Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Wife (and mother of your kids)
Wendy is the world’s hardest women to shop for and the suggestions from Amazon Gift Central just inspired sarcastic mocking comments. Wendy asked me to put together a short gift guide for you clueless husbands out there who are like one guy I know who bought his wife a watch every Christmas for over a [...]
