Sam is getting really into super heroes, soldiers, and that sort of alpha-male thing. Being the bargain hunter I am (see previous entry “Best Money Ever Spent”), I stockpile random toys fr...
Gosh, this week sure flew by — in a good way. Daddy Mac, the Saminator and I all had an equally great time in Vail, no easy feat since Daddy Mac and I were up for some faux outdoorsiness, new si...
Remember that happy-go-lucky Go-Go’s tune called “Vacation?” It goes something like this, “Vacation, all I ever wanted. Vacation, had to get away.” Well, that sure says i...
What, you ask? What was the BEST money I ever spent? If you know me much at all, you probably know that my bargain-hunting prowess could make me a contender for Miss Frugality. At the very least, I co...
Are you a friend or foe? You come to me in the middle of the night (usually after a potty break) and keep me awake until the wee hours of the morning. Just when I am so ready to go back to sleep befor...
Sam turned 4 yesterday. I never envisioned that he would ever really get that old, but he did. Whoever came up with that expression “the days go slowly the years go quickly?” was so on the...
We used to be real regulars, like regular regulars, at the Metro Richmond Zoo back in the day when Sam was two. Gosh, we were there once a week at least. In the last couple of years, though, we haven&...
Daddy Mac has been working seven days a week for quite a long while now and finally has a whole entire two-day weekend off. Yee ha! Hallelujah! Today he gallantly took the Saminator up to DC to see th...
Did you know that Father’s Day is next, yes, next weekend? That makes it a mere week from this Sunday. As my father would say, “Jeesh. How ’bout that?” I just made that startli...
School has been out for a whole week now, one very looong week. The adjustment is not going well — for me at least. Sam is fine, but I miss the time zooming around doing errands by myself, buyin...