Last night we went to a really neat birthday party for Sam’s friend Zach. We headed down at the Diamond to watch the Richmond Flying Squirrels take on Bowie, MD. Sam had never been to a R...
It is full-fledged LEGO-palooza here, folks! Sam is full-out obsessed with them, announcing as such, “I am obsessed with LEGOs!” He was even yelling in his sleep last night, “I w...
I’m hot. Are you hot? In fact I am very, very hot. Yesterday at 3 PM the temperature in the car read 110 degrees! Yes, 110 right there in Busch Gardens parking lot. And yes again, we w...
A house that cleans itself? Pretty intriguing, huh? No way, no how, but how? But really — how now brown cow? It’s actually the name of a revolutionary book I’ve been reading ...
I’ve realized a couple of things this week. First of all, you are never too old for any emotion that you think you “outgrew.” There is no outgrowing the human condition. Yester...
Move on over, Sponge Bob! There is a new animated character in town! He may not be friends with a spatula or anything cool like that, but he sure is a sponge-roo just like you! The first clue to...
Man, if this house could talk, there would be tales to tell. A friend lent it to us a few years ago when Sam was not quite two and still toddling around like a drunkard. That pink slide seemed soo...
We hadn’t been the the Jefferson Hotel there since their big LeMaire “makeover” last year, and it impressive! We went for Bernie’s birthday since it is one of his favorite plac...
It’s OK! I hadn’t, but now I’m a big fan! It is like Richmond in lots of ways — a small Southern city, a little known state capital, tons of history, lots of charming non-chain...
Since the sun was so incredibly bright today, I took Sam into CVS to get some sunglasses. Lo and behold while we were there for all of five minutes, he found everything in the world that he wanted, ne...