It’s the most wonderful time of the year ♪ ♫ ♬ ♭
Trifecta of one-way flights. Start of the Christmas C’s – Country Christmas with Mom in Arkansas. Bro, Sis-in-law & niece Maddie too! Family holidaying. Nothing better ❤️
Super short day & a half. Only regret.
BIG DINNER out. Saturday night gift exchange. Church in the morning.
Continued on last year’s tradition of gifting-n-watching a Christian-themed movie with Mom. She one-upped me with one of her own: ‘Overcomer’. Love, LOVED. Sin, hurt, forgiveness and distance running. Home run, Mom! Well done 😊
Time goes quickly. Miss ‘em already.
Fort Smith ✈ Dallas ✈ Hartford
Next C: Connecticut 🎄🎁
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- holiday SELFIE ❤️
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- MOVIE tradition
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- Christmas READY
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- Saturday gift exchange 🎁
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- best gift EVER
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- Sunday WORSHIP
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- my punk little Bro
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- ‘Little Devil’ 😈
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- season’s viral video
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- FAMILY time 😊
Arkansas Christmas 2019
Ewings of Dallas
Every memory wasn’t pineapple upside-down cake & Little House.
Friday nites… there was drama.
8pm on CBS.
DALLAS. Never missed (VCR recorded). First of a long line of prime-time soaps my family always watched. Dynasty, Knots Landing, Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road. TV drama of the ‘80s.
Morning touchdown at Dallas Love. Saturday drive to Southfork Ranch – HOME of the Ewings. Gotta/hafta/must GO. Miss Ellie, Jock. JR, Sue Ellen. Bobby & Pam. Who shot J.R.? Doubled-over in the dark of his oil baron tower. Season 2 cliff-hanger. Nothing on TV like it before.
JR survived & wasn’t rival Cliff Barnes who fired the shot. Sister-in-law Kristen… Bing Crosby’s daughter. True to the South, this family had its share of secrets. Babies, secret trysts, murder.
Bobby died; season later it was all a dream. Huh? Miss Ellie replaced by Donna Reed… & back again. Jock disappeared in the Amazon. Sadly, never returned (actor Jim Davis died).
Well well worth the $16 tour price – the Ewings of Dallas, an American original.
Sunday morning marathon, sleeps @ the Omni. Last road run of the decade. Indiana trail in 2 weeks; Christmas sandwiched in-between. Holidays with my own bunch of Ewings ❤️
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- Big Things Happen Here
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- America’s family
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- first couple of Dallas
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- Fridays on CBS
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- TV’s biggest villain
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- longest summer EVER
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- babies, trysts & murder
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- gift store memorabilia
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- cowboy hats & longhorn
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- R.I.P. J.R. Ewing
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- Welcome to Southfork
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- lotta staircase drama
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- patriarch Jock
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- J.R. & Sue Ellen’s bedroom
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- if windows could talk 😉
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- smaller in-person reality
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- goodbye Miss Ellie
Southfork Ranch
I remember your birth –
Manchester Hospital, May 18 1993.
Your first day of school.
Your love of EVERYTHING Disney,
Disney Princess every Halloween.
I remember [you] cutting your first Christmas tree.
Your love of COLOR, Michaela sense of style.
Pink-n-orange pillow still adorns my Colorado couch today.
Your high school graduation &
this past summer, our holiday in Iceland.
Today, you’ve said yes to another.
Congratulations baby girl. You’ll always hold my heart ❤️
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- BIG NEWS!
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- it’s official 💍
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- Michaela & Eli
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- grandpup Zelda
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- cake topper preview ❤️
