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, [...]