We had a really fun Halloween. As promised, my parents came to stay with us the day before. All Saints Day is traditionally a huge holiday here, meaning lots of people go to church the day after Halloween – and the kids therefore didn’t have school. Their father and I still had to work, and though…
Category: Holidays and Celebrations
Labor Day Weekend Recap
Two of my sisters, one with her baby in tow, came to visit over Labor Day weekend and help me celebrate my birthday. Both showed up on Thursday evening, one (plus her mini) by plane and one by car. I drove straight to the airport from work to get one girl plus her baby girl,…
Fourth Photo Dump
Morning, all. It’s July by the way – the cliche “This Year is Going So Fast” just gets realer and realer each year, does it not? Someone once told me life is like a roll of toilet paper – it goes faster as you get to the end. Haven’t much time to write, but I…
Memorial Day Weekend
We had a MDW that was action packed and also leisurely. Since the kids have short attention spans, all of our “action” was relatively short, punctuated with long spans of lounging. On Saturday, we woke up and went swimming at the gym we just joined. Before getting there, we ducked into Walgreens and purchased a…
#wedding
When Jack was just a baby, we took him to a convention of barbershop singers in Nashville, which my father helped coordinate as part of his job. All of my siblings attended– the youngest three were also working the convention, and we oldest two were just audience-members. My middle sister’s college boyfriend at the time…