Author Archives: Andrea Middleton

Currently at Reddit, I spent 10 years as a community organizer on the WordPress open source project. I'm also an avid reader, wine enthusiast, and parent of two.

Trimmed

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We had the grands over for dinner and trimmed the old tree to a medley of Xmas music from Glee, Bob Schneider and the Asylum Street Spankers. Is there a certain rather over decorated part that was an easy reach for Amelia? Yes. Will we be protecting the tree from both kids for a month? Also yes. Does it smell like Xmas in my living room? A thousand times yes. 🙂

Thanks

It’s hard to include everything I’m thankful for in text, but foremost in my mind is family, in Texas and Oregon – our family of blood and family of friends. Amelia, laughing until she can’t breathe with friends and cousins. Baxter, grinning as big as he can at the next table in the restaurant, and chortling at the “Thunder Show” of big girls play. Tom, enjoying all the Texas thing we can’t get in Portland – and, of course, all the people. 🙂 We left a lot of friends behind when we moved to the PacNW, and those people are (you know who you are) incredibly precious to us. I feel very grateful to have so much love in my life. Thanks.