Today is Daddy-O’s birthday and we are wishing him a wonderful day! I want to take a minute to share two stories with y’all. As I’ve written about ad nauseam, it’s been a rough couple of weeks around here (but that’s turned around). Well, Mother was scheduled to return to Savannah this Tuesday evening (after… Read More
“Lemonade!!!! Freeeeeeee lemonade!!!! It’s ice cold and delicious!!!”Nothing says summer like a good old fashioned front yard lemonade stand. Especially on what must have been the hottest day of the year! These two cousins set up shop with lemonade, water and lemonheads and couldn’t wait for the first customer. Of course, Elsa was in on… Read More
Oh happy day… it’s Sister’s birthday!!!!!!!!!!!! And the whole family came to town to celebrate!! We did our usual Japanese hibachi din din and came back to our place for cakes and prezzies. If you didn’t know better, you might have thought it was this little lady’s big day. I got her this precious Elsa… Read More
Today and every day I am so very thankful for the dad’s in my life. For my own father, who has been a fixture in my life for my entire life. He’s just always been there…. through childhood, and college, and marriage and babies… at the crack of dawn and in the middle of the… Read More
School’s out for summer and that means I have had the good fortune of having my teacher bestie M join me for long afternoons at the pool and other summer adventures!! On one such occasion we were discussing summer chores and she mentioned picking the seven biggest ones, calling them the Summer 7 and making… Read More
Today Honey and I are celebrating our 13th anniversary. As it poured rain this afternoon I couldn’t help but think of the rainy day many moons ago when we tied the knot. It seems like both yesterday and an eternity at the same time. I can hardly believe that I have the good… Read More
Lordy, Lordy, Honey is 40!! The night before, Mother and I snuck out in the yard and set this up. Of course it didn’t even occur to us that the sprinklers might come on and douse them before they ever saw the light of day. Ha! We celebrated later than evening with our usual… Read More