Today is November 21st. It’s “Grace Day”. In honor of today, I’m rerunning the following post: In my family we are named after our grandmothers. My grandmother’s name is Grace, her grandmother’s name was Grace, and my middle name is Grace (because my dad insisted that it not be my first name, or so I …
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While we were at Starbucks we got a text for Jeff saying he couldn’t do the Glacial Trail 50 Mile race so he would walk to mile 7 and meet us there, we got him a coffee. We texted him when we arrived and he said: 2 miles out, join me? So I sent Mrs. …
[ Continue Reading... ]The kid is way into making s’mores lately. I can’t remember what started it, but all of a sudden last weekend all I heard about was s’mores. So we got graham crackers and Hershey’s chocolate bars at the grocery store (we had the marshmallows) …. and we bought those little containers of Blue Bunny ice …
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My husband is on a cake baking quest, 52 weeks of cakes, he made this one while I ran the Bastille 5K (after he baked all those cookies). So I’m washing all of the dishes that do not fit in the dishwasher and he’s trying to take a picture of his cake. He did not …
[ Continue Reading... ]Here’s a rerun from August 2008: A conversation with Zoe this afternoon while we were at the YMCA Zoe: Mom there’s a girl here who looks just like you. Me: Really? Zoe: Let me go take another look at her to see if it’s you, or if she just looks like you. And then she …
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 Maybe it’s time that we get assigned parking spots at work, the kind that has big signs with our names on them. That’s my car in the space that my dad wants — FYI: I GOT THERE FIRST. And then, just for kicks, my brother decided he wanted the space too.
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