This Mother’s Day, the girls and CS got me some flowers for the back deck and then we went out for lunch with a stop for ice cream for them and a chocolate frappe for me. I also did some … Continue reading →

Pool + wet bathing suit = not the best time to push the potty training. Seriously, I couldn’t put it off one more week? I’m glad I didn’t bring my bikini. I’m way too pale and jiggly. Wait. That woman … Continue reading →

It’s that time of the decade where I look around here and give it a good vacuuming. Hope you like the new(er) look. Not too much of a change but, hey! Look at that header photo! There is a header … Continue reading →

A few songs that I have been regularly playing for your listening pleasure, provided you have the same kind of ears that I have. There should be something for everyone I think. Or maybe not. There’s no accounting for taste. So if first you don’t succeed, click on. Click on….. Civilian- Wye Oak This is the acoustic [...]

I took Amelia for her first movie theater experience (Barbie Mermaid something-or-other which has so much wrong with it that it nearly made my head explode. She enjoyed it though.) She then wrote out her Valentine’s Day cards for her classmates and we made up little bags with small toys and chocolates. Curried sweet potato soup via [...]

Elise started saying “Amelia” today instead of Ah-meena. Big deal? After hearing her sister’s name one hundred times a day for the last two and a half years and finally getting it right? Yes, yes it is. Not a whole lot else is going on, except that we are firmly planted in Giants territory for the [...]

Christmas came with Santa piling on the presents, stockings filled, and my contribution to Christmas crafts adorning the tree. I’m quite proud of my star garland. I thought it would be a good “girls project” and it was, for about 30 minutes. It took me an additional 3 hours to cut out the rest of [...]

The “Holiday Season” that everyone in the entire world keeps trying to shove down my throat does not start the goddamn day after Thanksgiving. It has been so written. Right here. So, just stop it. I do not want a Christmas tree more than 2 weeks before Christmas (and prefer a max of 10 days). I [...]

Two posts in a week? I’d better slow down before I pull something. Even though I don’t DO a lot, in my head I am cooking glorious meals that spread across my table like a William-Sonoma catalogue cover and making crafty things and clothes that would be good enough to actually wear. I’m not sure if [...]

We got 4 inches of snow 2 days before Halloween. We lost power, had that come back on, shoveled and scraped ice of off the windshield, lost power again for a bit, and donned winter coats for the Halloween festivities. I’m done with winter 2011- 2012 already and we haven’t even “fallen back” for DST [...]

I received an email today from a new interweb friend apologizing for nagging me to blog more. She hadn’t nagged me at all, but asked in a previous email to write more posts. And even if she HAD nagged I wouldn’t have cared because I love her blog and, even though we have never met, [...]