My third niece was recently born to my sister – her first child, my first blood-related niece (the others, precious to me, are my husband’s sister’s children). I am spoiled for sons, spoiled for nieces – nary a daughter nor nephew in sight! We are far flung, my nuclear family of 7, and so we…
Category: Parents and Siblings and Cousins, Oh My!
Snippets of Summer Part Two
We did some other fun things in Nasvhille, as well, including going to the drive in to see Inside Out. We went to a huge park and splash park Once the splash park eventually opened, we had a sort of great time. However, this splash park allows no running, horseplay, climbing, toys, buckets, or…
Recovery
I have my feet up, after making a turkey sausage/green pepper/onion lasagna plus a batch of cauliflower chowder. Both are chilling in the fridge, ready to be re-heated for the week’s dinners. All of the boys have had lunch, and the big boys are watching tv in the other room. The baby is upstairs in…
The Freezing North
We spent a week at my parents’ place. I worked two of the days – my firm has an office there, which allows me to extend our visits. The two days I worked were long and harried, but the rest of the time was not so bad. I worked a third day by billing the entire…
Memory Dump
It has been ages! And I’m too busy to put anything with any kind of structure here – I’ve been using up all of my “creative time” to make the Professor’s annual Father’s Day Shutterfly Book. It’s almost done, so I *might* just have time to get it printed and delivered in time for the…