Well gals, guess who lost another tooth?!?! (And guess who will be paying for braces in a few years??) Despite my best intentions to be prepared for tooth loss number two with plenty of fairy dust and a coffer of unique coins, once again I was left scraping together something memorable at eleven o’clock that… Read More
With the big basement re-do behind us, I have been enthusiastically pulling out some of the lovelies I’ve collected over the last eight months to find them a more suitable home than the bowels of my closet. The first things out and up were my Suzanne Kasler (Suzanne was our girl name and it still… Read More
Until last week, I had ridiculously little time one on one with my sweet, fat, happy baby Whit (aka Cookie.) He’s three years younger than John (aka Precious Cutie Pie, aka PCP) and spent the first two and three-quarter years of his precious life being carted around to the PCP’s events, activities, parties and play… Read More
I’m stealing a page from my blog-ff calliespondence’s book and writing about two must-shop sales today. Lilly Endless Summer Sale Hop on over to the mothership at Lilly Pulitzer for too good to be true prices on all the shifts, skirts and McKim’s your heart desires. Here are a few things I couldn’t let get away: (The… Read More
At parent’s night last week, John’s new Kindergarten teacher had a few items pinned up on her “wish list”. I chose Clorox wipes (because I appreciate germ fighting as much as the next mom) and Skittles (because the PCP, clearly inheriting my sweet tooth, will do anything for a shot of sugar.) Since John’s class… Read More
I’ve shared our basement re-model in bits and pieces over the last eight months and have finally put together a recap of the space that was a year (plus some) in the making! I only have a few pictures of the “before.” It was much too yucky for me to spend time down there photographing.… Read More
Last night we celebrated BIL’s (brother in law) big four-oh birthday in a bash absolutely positively perfectly suited for the guest of honor. If I were asked to name three things that BIL adores, the list would run much like his party did: cheese, good food and games. We noshed on six feet of gourmet… Read More