An Unusual Engagement Party
Not many couples can boast of an engagement party consisting of snow and strangers. However, Doug and Allie can! It is quite a story. It all began with a simply enough, an idea for an engagement party...
Snow Drama
Richmond is big on snow drama. Having grown up in Boston and experienced the infamous Blizzard of ’78, I have to chuckle and say, “Bless their hearts.” There is widespread panic, con...
Sleep Is Overrated
Well, I try to tell myself that, but it really is my favorite sport and the one of the few in which I truly excel. So, if you read my earlier post about Sam falling asleep at 5 PM for the night, my Mo...
Precious Moments — A Big Mistake??
Aaah! I can focus, I can concentrate, I feel relaxed. You guessed it, I’m home ALONE! Well, not really alone-alone, but alone enough since Sam is here but passed out cold upstairs. Let me back u...
Out of the Mouth of a Preschooler
People are often the funniest when they don’t know they are being funny. The same goes for the little people known as preschoolers. If Sam was trying to be funny, he would yell, “Stinky fe...
First Day of 2010
One day of the new year down. Let’s see, I woke up with a headache from too much wine and champagne, munched on three pastries in bed for my first breakfast and followed it up with sausage and s...
This Santa Is Tired!
Aaaah, phew! The stockings have been hung by the chimney with care and surefire certainty that Santa (or licensed agents thereof) was recently there. The culmination of all of that incessant “Ch...
Poof!
Just like that — gone! Daddy Mac and I were going to have our first 24 hour getaway together in 4 1/2 years tomorrow night, but it is all cancelled now because of the impending snow. Big, big bu...