Moran Family Fun

The first month of 2016 was a busy one! Rather than write a novel, I've decided to share our month in pictures.  Here we go! January 12 is International Kiss a Ginger Day! We love the sweet red headed members of our family and hope that they felt the love on the 12th and on every other day of the year. Samantha is our least gingery ginger, but was also the only one who would consent to be a part of Emily's quest for the perfect Kiss a Ginger Day selfie. I'm a change junkie. I start to get the urge to shake the things up a little bit every couple of months. I need a bigger change every couple of years. I blame it on the nomadic life I've led. January's change was pulling up the carpet on our stairs to reveal the lovely hardwood floors underneath. When we first moved in we removed most of the carpet upstairs, but we didn't consider that the warm oak flooring might extend to the staircase. One evening I peeled back a corner of one step to take a peek an...

It’s been almost two months since Christmas? Two months? I’m trying to get back in the habit of documenting our life and sharing my feelings here on the blog. It’s something that I love, but haven’t made enough time for lately. Around this time of year in 2009, when I first started this thing, the plan was to write a post each Sunday and I think it’s time to get back to that blogging schedule. Sometimes, I wait to post because I don’t feel as if anything interesting enough has happened. Other times, plenty of interesting happenings have transpired but life is so busy that I don’t take the time to write about them. You know, like Christmas or New Year’s.  Anyway, this post will be a big catch up for the happenings of the end of December and January and then I can think about sharing what’s been going on in February! After Samantha’s birthday, the rest of December is really all about celebrating Christmas and the New Year. This year we finally did what we’ve been saying w...