He turned one. It was terribly sad. Until it wasn’t. We had a few gifts, a few party hats, a few cupcakes. I had bought Liam three small gifts from a trip to the Aquarium earlier in the summer – no big deal, bought as afterthoughts, but as it turned out the only stuff I…
Category: Holidays and Celebrations
Birthdays and Easter and Exams, Oh My!
4-23-11 Easter Eve I worked most of the day, on a paper. But I came home around dinner time to do some Easter festivities. We dyed a dozen hard boiled eggs. It was the perfect amount. Growing up in a family of five, as I did, I think we must have dyed 3 or 4…
Friday’s Child is Loving and Giving
Indeed he is. Three years ago today, I met my first baby, my boy (and stole my brother’s birthday out from under him.) Happy birthday, Jack.
Fairy tale
Once upon a time, back in the days before my marriage, I still lived with my oldest younger sister. We lived together in a tiny grayish house in Hillsborough, North Carolina, a town that still holds my heart, though I try daily to forget it and devote myself body and soul to my new home…
No, That’s Not How I Got These Great Beads
As I mentioned last year, Mardi Gras can be extremely family friendly, if you want it to be. Go to Canal street and you’re seeing some b00bs, but stick to certain well-known areas of the parade route and you’ll be surrounded by wagons and juice boxes and those ladders with a little high chair at…