Alice’s Birthday Party

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!On Sunday we threw a birthday party for our new 7 year old!  Alice and I had talked last year about throwing a supergirl party but between having a two month old baby and a 45 year old invalid (Scott had shoulder surgery 2 days after her birthday with the knee surgery to follow 2 months later) there ended up being no...

Charlie’s Birthday Party

Charlie’s first birthday was on December 30th.  Originally I had planned to have his party on that date but, after throwing a huge cocktail party earlier in the month and hosting Christmas with out of town family, by the time we got close to Charlie’s birthday, I was partied out for the month. Instead we had it this past Sunday and I ended up very happy with my stress avoidance decision.  Everything...

Emerald Isle

We had our yearly family trip to Emerald Isle, NC a few weeks ago.  The 18 of us have definitely outgrown my parents’ house so now they also rent a house on the sound.  We beach, we eat Big Oak Drive-in BBQ and shrimp burgers, we sail, we walk, we read and we do a whole lot of hanging out.  This year cousin Morgan was old enough that the four year age gap wasn’t as noticeable so he was over his...

I am back — finally!

I’ve been away much, much longer than I ever intended.  I intended to get going on the new blog just after Christmas.  Funny how having a baby while simultaneously finishing your basement can screw up palns like that.  Throw in a “fabulous” day of skiing for the husband when the baby is just three weeks old (resulting in both ACL replacement & shoulder surgery) and you can get even more bogged...