Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope you and yours are having a wonderful turkey day. We spent the morning watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day — love that! Such a great way to start the day, lounging with the ones you [...]
They told me my life was going to change…
They didn’t tell me I would change. And that I’d never, ever be the same. Nine years ago today, my life changed in ways I never would have imagined. Going into labor five weeks early.Hoping his [...]
Home Alone
A rarity. Just me. Everyone else is off at basketball practice. So I have a whole hour a.l.o.n.e. Wouldn't want it all the time, but it's a nice change of pace. Reading Ali's new book. Fabulous. [...]
Yikes! Better start working off the turkey now
Check this out. It's a calorie counter for the average Thanksgiving dinner. And the scary thing...I don't think their list covers everything on my typical plate. Uh-oh. How many calories is your Thanksgiving dinner? (Thanks Stacy [...]
Longest Day EVER…
And I don't mean in a bad sort of day. It's been a delightfully long day. I love this, the day after "falling back." It's like I get that extra hour about eight times throughout the [...]
Gunk
It seems so odd that just two weeks ago it was still hot, hot, hot here...and tonight, we're having the first official fire of the season. Wow! How did that happen so fast? I had on [...]
Fall. Fun.
Fall is finally here! It's a chilly sixty something today and rainy. Ah...it's simply delicious. I'm burning a candle and wearing wool socks...which I realize might seem a bit extreme for sixty degrees, but remember how [...]
“Who are you?”
"And what have you done with my grouchy, lethargic wife?" These...the words of my loving husband last night at dinner as evidence of the Aby I once was started to resurface. Nice. You know that crazy [...]
When it Rains, it Pours
And when it doesn't, it doesn't. It hasn't rained since the organizing and the weather post. But, in case you were wondering, Mother Nature is blogger. (Or at least she reads them.) Who knew, right? Well, [...]
Organizing and the Weather…
Dear Mother Nature, I just wanted to write to check in on you…and make sure you’re doing OK. The weather you’ve been sending my way has been, well, lovely for certain, but not terribly reminiscent of [...]