HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CAROL!! Hope you have a fantastic day ( Read more... )

What do your kid's friends call you?

Mrs. LastName
Mrs. FirstName
Ms/Miss FirstName
FirstName
YourKid'sName's Mom
Something else

I'm very curious.

John is in Ft Worth, and I have just endured my first solo experience of putting the boys to bed. If the past hour is any indication, it's going to be a long night.
The only good news is that there are now no more cookies in the house, so I can't do any more damage.

( lots of pictures )

Last night I was cleaning out my bag, and I found in the Order of Worship from Mass at St Ignatius in Houston, where we went more than a week ago for Baby Courtney's baptism. I started singing "O, Come Divine Messiah," which was the entrance song for Mass, and this is what transpired ( Read more... )

Many thanks to Jenny for recommending Daya http://www.dayaenergy.com/ as a day spa. Lovely! They could only book me in for an express facial, but you bet I'll be going back for a full-on complete treatment sometime soon. The spa is really beautiful, and all of the products they used ( Read more... )

It's not been a good day. I don't know why, specifically, but I'm grouchy and tired and just about ready to go crazy. It's 57F in my house right now, and I'm wearing two layers plus a fleece bathrobe. Maybe that has something to do with it.
But there was one good part to the day....wanna see?
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So, we're finally taking action on a lot of the home projects we've been talking about and planning for months. While it is wildly exciting to *do something* and feel like we're making progress, the cheapskate in me (read: 99% of my personality) does not care that we've been saving, budgeting and can afford to do all of these projects. All it ( Read more... )

The Cape time of our vacation was somewhat predictable: lots of ice cream, lots of John's relatives, and lots of avoiding many of John's closest relatives. I wish I could love Cape Cod. I love my husband, and he loves Cape Cod. But I just.don't.get.it. I mean, it's quaint and cute if you like all that (which, despite my being an historian, I'm ( Read more... )

If you read this,
even if I don't speak to you often,
please post a memory of me.

It can be anything you want, it can be good or bad,
just so long as it happened.

Then post this in your journal. See what people remember about you.