We took the boys to the beach this morning. Since this weekend is the Hangout Fest in Alabama, we headed east to the lovely gulf shoreline along the Florida panhandle – less than an hour from home. We packed light – a couple of juice boxes, some toys. I packed a backpack for each boy with…
Category: Alabama
Snapshot of My House at Four Thirty on a Wednesday Morning
The dog, suddenly alight with some devilish notion, runs up and down the stairs a couple of times, clackety clack on the hard wood. It is pitch dark outside, an hour before the alarm should go off, but wakefulness wins out over sleep. (The dog, on the other hand, having seen to his mysterious but…
Busy busy busy
I flew home from Tampa on a windy February day, and landed right into a whole mess of work that’s still sort of running my life. To top it off, Saturday was our lovely town’s 24th annual chili cookoff/cancer fundraiser. Our law firm sponsors a booth, and I was in charge of clean-up. I spent…
Sweet Home
When I arrived at wee, dapper little Mobile airport from Atlanta, I breathed a sigh of “home” – my first time feeling this way about our new town. The Atlanta airport spun me from one concourse to another, riding on the jarring “plane train,” queuing for absolute years for the pleasure of the increasingly humiliating…
Weekend Update
It seems that this blog will turn into a once-weekly affair. The weekend days are usually the most interesting days, anyhow, and the most interesting work days (and I had a few last week!) cannot be written about. So there you have it. Thursday evening, Jack’s preschool put on a pageant. Most of the pictures…